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HARROLD: American Abolitionism (2019)

Book Reviews

To what extent did the abolitionist movement bring about the end of slavery in the United States?

The Overland Campaign

Photo Essays

An illustrated look at the clashes between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during the Overland Campaign

Which Way Did They Go?

Image of the Day

Duped soldiers and Quaker guns are the focus of Julian Scott's painting "Sold."

ENDRES & KURTZ (eds.): Soldiers of the Cross (2019)

Book Reviews

Conyngham observed many chaplains at work...an important historical artifact.

A Hair-Raising Incident at Shiloh

Image of the Day

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War, published in 1895, contained a broad collection of sketches that had appeared during...

HUNT: Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station (2019)

Book Reviews

...a very detailed account of this often-overlooked campaign.

A Triple Bereavement at Cairo

In the First Person

Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, Mary Livermore, a 40-year-old native of Boston, volunteered to work for the United States ...

Rock of Chickamauga

American Iliad

In the American Iliad, the Civil War’s chief victors are well known: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and his partner in command, Major...

DAVIS: The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry (2019)

Book Reviews

George Armstrong Custer is a heroic yet tragic figure in the pantheon of America's military past...

MERTZ: Attack at Daylight and Whip Them (2019)

Book Reviews

Mertz and the Emerging Civil War Series have given us excellent history in guidebook format.

POWELL: Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah (2019)

Book Reviews

Powell adds nuance and depth to a well-studied campaign.

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Rock of Chickamauga

American Iliad

In the American Iliad, the Civil War’s chief victors are well known: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and his partner in command, Major...

Winslow Homer's Civil War

Photo Essays

After the outbreak of the Civil War, 25-year-old artist Winslow Homer traveled to the front to sketch scenes of the conflict's...

HORWITZ: Spying on the South (2019)

Book Reviews

We have lost a singular voice in the field of popular history.

The Best Gettysburg Books

Articles

What are the five best books about the Battle of Gettysburg (nonfiction or fiction)? We asked six Civil War historians for their answers.

The Best Civil War Books of All Time

Analysis

For our latest newsstand-only special issue, The Civil War Almanac, we asked a panel of Civil War historians--J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C....

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...