American Civil War

This is the history of a legendary battalion. The product of more than a decade's toil, Going Back the Way They Came is a thoroughly researched, co...

In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville,...

On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his U.S. troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, att...

A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic netw...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864 and June 1865. It explores different...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri from January through August 1864. It explores the various ...

Most Civil War regiments came from rural areas of the country but the 14th Brooklyn was taken from the city of Brooklyn, New York. Having been a...

This book is about previously unidentified people who became Abolitionists involved in the antislavery movement from about 1840 to 1860. Althoug...

This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemne...

Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War is the tenth volume in this acclaimed series showing the human side of th...

This is the first biography devoted to the life of a remarkable young man who, in the words of Civil War historian Ezra Warner, embarked upon a com...