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"We Must Not Be Enemies"

Vol. 12, No. 3

Faced with a nation on the verge of civil war, Abraham Lincoln used his first inaugural address as a last-ditch effort to avert bloodshed.

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Major Knipe Winging a Secessionist

From the Archives

The following news item and image about an incident involving Union officer Joseph Knipe ran in Harper's Weekly on July 20, 1861—the day...

CHICK: Dreams of Victory (2022)

Book Reviews

Sean Michael Chick's "Dreams of Victory" asks some interesting questions and brings to life the old controversies.

DAVIS & BELL (eds.): The Whartons' War (2022)

Book Reviews

"The Whartons' War" is a voluminous collection covering over three years of the war with no significant gaps.

BURGE: A Failed Vision of Empire (2022)

Book Reviews

Daniel J. Burge's "A Failed Vision of Empire" is a well-written, deeply researched, and provocative book.

Quick Picks: First Bull Run Books

Articles

Looking to do some reading on the First Battle of Bull Run? We asked Harry Smeltzer, proprietor of the website Bull Runnings, for his five...

First Bull Run

Photo Essays

On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederae forces clashed just north of Manassas, Virginia, in the war's first major land battle. The engagment...

SIMPSON: All for the Union (2022)

Book Reviews

John A. Simpson's "All for the Union" offers yet another lens through which to trace the timeworn trail of the embattled Army of the Potomac...

ALFORD: In The Houses of Their Dead (2022)

Book Reviews

Terry Alford's spellbinding "In The Houses of Their Dead" makes important interventions in both Civil War scholarship and Lincoln studies.

Extra Voices: Salt Pork

Articles

In the Voices section of the Summer 2022 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes about one of the more common foods...

EMBERTON: To Walk About in Freedom (2022)

Book Reviews

Carole Emberton's "To Walk About in Freedom" is a remarkable microhistory centered around one formerly enslaved woman’s FWP interview.

NUSSBAUM (ed.): Gettysburg (2022)

Book Reviews

Ben Nussbaum's "Gettysburg" features an impressive collection of short essays by several scholars.

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The Best Civil War Books of 2021

Articles

With the help of a handful of Civil War historians, here is our list of the best Civil War books of 2021.

Gettysburg Photo Mystery Solved?

Commentary

With the help of an Artificial Intelligence-based, computerized color identifier and cutting-edge software that created a 3D rendering of Mc...

The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia

Photo Essays

Published in 1890, "The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia"--a slim volume devoted to telling the story of the battles fought along the Western &...

The Best Civil War Books of All Time

Analysis

What are the best Civil War books ever published? We asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James ...

Bowdoin's Other Civil War Sons

Analysis

Discussions surrounding Bowdoin College and the Civil War invariably return to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine. But another...

Fantasizing Lee as a Civil Rights Pioneer

Analysis

There's a tale widely told these days about how Robert E. Lee, soon after the war, reached out in Christian fellowship to a black worshiper...