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Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr.'s "The Million-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President" does an admirable job ...
"The narrative comes to life" in Ralph Peters' Darkness at Chancellorsville, one "of the best-written battle sequences I've ever read."
A look at one of the dogs charged with recapturing escaped prisoners from Andersonville
S.C. Gwynne's "Hymns of the Republic" is "a readable narrative that carries readers from Ulysses S. Grant’s arrival in the Eastern Theater...
A different look at the words Abraham Lincoln used in his iconic Gettysburg Address.
A look at William T. Sherman's Special Field Orders 120, which set the tone for the March to the Sea ...
Larry J. Daniel's "Conquered: Why the Confederacy Failed" is a convincing original argument, a comprehensive historiographical essay, and a...
In "Lincoln's Spies," Douglas Waller provides colorful detail on the lives and careers of Civil War spies...there is much material with...
Brian R. Dirck's "The Black Heavens" is the first book-length treatment of the sixteenth president's long relationship with death.
Brooks Blevins' "The Conflicted Ozarks" is superb study of a fascinating region during a tumultuous period of destruction and rebuilding.
A look at Cincinnati, Ulysses S. Grant's favorite war horse
A look at Traveller, Robert E. Lee's famed war horse
A look at the legacy of Union general George H. Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga"
A look at the Civil War artwork of Winslow Homer
In the passing of author Tony Horwitz, we have lost a singular voice in the field of popular history.
What are the five best books about the Battle of Gettysburg (nonfiction or fiction)? We asked six Civil War historians for their answers.
What are the best Civil War books ever published? We asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James ...
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