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Canines played a variety of important roles—from supportive to savage—for the Union and Confederate armies
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Ashley Towle's "African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom" is an essential read.
In "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge," Brian Martin describes Canada's unique role in the U.S. Civil War.
On May 24, 1861, 24-year-old Elmer E. Ellsworth—colonel of the 11th New York Infantry—was shot and killed by the pro-secessionist...
Troy D. Harman returns with another contemplative treatment of the summer of 1863 in "All Roads Led to Gettysburg."
Candice Shy Hooper’s "Delivered Under Fire" gives students of the conflict a greater appreciation for one of its more fascinating...
John Cimprich's "Navigating Liberty" gives thorough attention to the most important subjects in the literature on the transition from...
Mike Pride's "Storm Over Key West" interrogates the social, political, and racial dynamics of the island from the 1840s into the early...
Neither blind to the general's foibles nor taken by the Lost Cause caricatures, Derek D. Maxfield's "Man of Fire" renders a human portrait...
In "The Democratic Collapse," Lauren N. Haumesser contends that gender was a fountainhead of political contention in the antebellum United ...
MacKenzie's thoughtfully researched and lucidly argued "The Fifth Border State" offers a deeper understanding of the complexities...
Mark Power Smith's "Young America" challenges our framework for understanding the two decades immediately preceding the Civil War.
The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2022 issue contains our annual roundup of the year's best Civil War titles. As usual, we've...
With the help of an Artificial Intelligence-based, computerized color identifier and cutting-edge software that created a 3D rendering of Mc...
Published in 1890, "The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia"--a slim volume devoted to telling the story of the battles fought along the Western &...
What are the best Civil War books ever published? We asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James ...
Discussions surrounding Bowdoin College and the Civil War invariably return to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine. But another...
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...
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