Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive batt...

The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human right...

During the 1850s and '60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis ...

An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequa...

Do not bring on a general engagement, Confederate General Robert E. Lee warned his commanders. The Army of Northern Virginia, slicing its way throu...

March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. I am very unwell, he confided to a close acqu...

The second installment in a sweeping history of the 5th Texas InfantryThe Bloody Fifthone of only three Texas regiments to fight with Robert E. Lee...

Some Confederates called him a Bluebelly, Mudsill, and even a Lincolnite (for President Abraham Lincoln), but the name that has carried down throug...

Jeffrey Hunts Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, Ju...

This edition of over 600 letters written by or for the poor in the early nineteenth-century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique wind...

This edition of over 600 letters written by or for the poor in the early nineteenth-century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique wind...

Gettysburg, the largest land battle on the North American continent, has maintained an unshakable grip on the American imagination. Building on m...

The Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role. Although much has been written about the role of railroads in general,...

The diminutive Union XII Corps found significant success on the field at Antietam. Its soldiers swept through the East Woods and the Miller Cornfie...

The fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 fundamentally changed the strategic picture of the American Civil War, though its outcome had been anything but ...

The Importance of the North River (the Hudson), and the sanguine wishes of all to prevent the enemy from possessing it, have been the causes of thi...