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Top historians debunk five of the conflict's most enduring falsehoods

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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...

Mutiny in the Army

In the First Person

On August 14, 1861, the sense of anger and disgruntlement that had been building among the men of the largely Scottish-American 79th New ...

SILKENAT: Raising the White Flag (2019)

Book Reviews

If surrender never quite 'defined' the war, this book makes clear that it unquestionably suffused it.

The B&A Q&A: Kevin M. Levin

The Bookshelf

In his latest book, "Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth" (to be published this fall by the University...

BIERLE: Call Out the Cadets (2019)

Book Reviews

Bierle never loses sight of the fact that the battle did not occur in some remote hinterland, but rather in a larger community.

ELDER: That Bloody Hill (2017)

Book Reviews

Chickamauga was a grim first outing for the Alabamians.

History as Imagination

Stereoscope

Anyone who has spent considerable time in research libraries or logging onto digital archives knows what it feels like to come to the end of...

"My Little 'Rebel' Heart Was on Fire"

In the First Person

In July 1861, only months after the outbreak of the Civil War, Belle Boyd—the 17-year-old daughter of a prosperous family in Martinsburg, ...

REIDY: Illusions of Emancipation (2019)

Book Reviews

Reidy does not see a single point, a single event, or a single historical figure as responsible for emancipation.

WHITE: Let Us Die Like Men (2019)

Book Reviews

Unable to compel Sherman to attack, Hood trundled west into Alabama and changed his objective.

TSOURAS: Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War (2018)

Book Reviews

The author shows how a superior general staff...helped wrest the initiative away from Lee's army as the war in the Eastern Theater dragged...

Never-Before Published Letters

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BROOMALL: Private Confederacies (2019)

Book Reviews

[S]tands at the edge of a field of historical inquiry that is sure to gain greater currency among historians...

The American Civil War Museum: A Photo Tour

Photo Essays

Take a mini tour of the newly opened American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia.

Feeding the Troops

Photo Essays

"An army marches on its stomach." Variations of this statement have been attributed to great historical leaders, including Frederick the ...

"A Lady of Excellent Worth"

In the First Person

Nearly twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Union army veteran Melvin Grigsby traveled south in hopes of locating the local woman...

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....