American Civil War

This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Eastern and New England states that fought for...

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividi...

Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend t...

The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Antietam on 16-17 September 1862 described their experiences of the battle i...

America's Civil War took a dreadful toll on human lives, and the emotional repercussions were exacerbated by tales of battlefield atrocities, impro...

"The shells of the enemy flew over us here tearing great limbs off the trees and screaming horribly ... then a shell struck into the ranks near ...

Organized at Anderson, Indiana, in October 1862, the 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry's Civil War service spanned the South. From Louisville to New ...

This Civil War sourcebook organizes the crucial details of the war in an inventive format designed to enhance the reader's knowledge base and bi...

The Red River Campaign in the spring of 1864 was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. The agricultural wealth of the Red River Valley t...

This work is a witty, unique exploration of the eerie similarities between the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy that h...

Whether or not the United States "won" the war of 1812, two engagements that occurred toward the end of the conflict had an enormous influence on t...