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WILLIAMS: Rebel Guerrillas (2018)

Book Reviews

In "Rebel Guerrillas," Paul Williams studies three of the Confederate Army's most prominent irregular warriors.

VARON: Armies of Deliverance (2019)

Book Reviews

A review of Elizabeth R. Varon's "Armies of Deliverance," the Lincoln Prize–winning work that largely presents the war from the viewpoint...

McKENNA: British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War (2019)

Book Reviews

As Joseph McKenna shows in "British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War, the Union attempt to blockade over 3,500 miles of ...

KEITH: When It Was Grand (2020)

Book Reviews

Radical Republicans have always been the most colorful of the party’s factions to chronicle, as evidenced in LeeAnna Keith's "When It Was ...

"What will not the human body endure?"

In the First Person

A look at life in a Union field hospital during the Siege of Port Hudson in mid-1863.

BROWN: Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America (2019)

Book Reviews

"Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America" by Thomas J. Brown is one of the most comprehensive explorations on Civil War...

Grant and Lee at Appomattox

American Iliad

Understanding the mythic event at Appomattox that represents the end of the Confederacy.

KUTZLER: Living By Inches (2019)

Book Reviews

Evan Kutzler's "Living By Inches" shows that Robert Penn Warren was right; the Civil War is our 'felt' history.

Badge Quest

Living History

One man's journey to become a licensed battlefield guide at Gettysburg.

HOLLOWAY & WHITE: 'Our Little Monitor' (2018)

Book Reviews

Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White's "Our Little Monitor" offers cutting-edge maritime archaeology and thorough historical research....

SCHAFF: Abraham Lincoln's Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy (2019)

Book Reviews

As Jon D. Schaff's "Abraham Lincoln's Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy" shows, there is no discernible slowdown in the...

Journey Into Darkness

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BEILEIN: William Gregg's Civil War (2019)

Book Reviews

"William Gregg’s Civil War" is brisk and lively as the guerrilla moves through his many experiences serving under William Quantrill.

Lee's War Horse: Traveller

Articles

A look at Traveller, Robert E. Lee's famed war horse

Rock of Chickamauga

American Iliad

A look at the legacy of Union general George H. Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga"

Winslow Homer's Civil War

Photo Essays

A look at the Civil War artwork of Winslow Homer

HORWITZ: Spying on the South (2019)

Book Reviews

In the passing of author Tony Horwitz, we have lost a singular voice in the field of popular history.

The Best Gettysburg Books

Analysis

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