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Published: 3/18/25
A Grand Opening Squandered (2025)
"A Grand Opening Squandered" succeeds in explaining why the battles of June 15-18, 1864 deserve to be remembered.
Published: 3/12/25
Hundreds of Little Wars (2025)
"Hundreds of Little Wars" is a fitting tribute to the splendid career of historian Daniel E. Sutherland
Published: 3/10/25
A Lesser-Known Gettysburg Hero
Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Infantry earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. So too did his regiment's color sergeant, Andrew Jackson Tozier.
Published: 3/5/25
Somewhere Toward Freedom (2025)
Bennett Parten finds new significance in one of the U.S. Civil War’s most storied episodes.
Published: 3/3/25
Cleaning Ironclads
A look at the process used to clean the ironclad monitor-class warships that made up the Union's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Published: 2/26/25
Authoritarianism in the American South (2024)
Dipboye's "Authoritarianism in the American South" is a freshly unique meditation on why the Civil War was fought.
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Published: 2/24/25
Odd Civil War Photos, Pt. 2
Uncover the unusual and fascinating side of the American Civil War in this second installment of our "odd" photo essay series.
Published: 2/19/25
William “Baldy” Smith (2022)
Union general William Smith's worst enemy was not the Confederates. It was himself.
Published: 2/17/25
Medicine From a Pandora’s Box
Explore the story of the Civil War medicine box belonging to Confederate surgeon Christopher H. Tebaul.
Published: 2/12/25
Sons of East Tennessee (2022)
Jack Brubaker’s "Sons of East Tennessee" contributes to the growing literature on veterans and the problem of Civil War memory.
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Published: 2/10/25
Civil War Valentines
View examples of the satirical and comic military-themed valentines that were sent during the Civil War.
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Published: 2/6/25
Civil War Fashion, Part 1
Dive into the world of Civil War fashion through images of distinctive uniforms and personal styles adopted by people in the 1860s.
Published: 2/5/25
A Great and Good Man (2024)
"A Great and Good Man" is a valuable new addition to the growing scholarship on Abraham Lincoln.
Published: 2/3/25
Veterans Visit an Idealized West
In July 1883, thousands of former Union soldiers in the East and Midwest boarded railroad cars bound for Denver, Colorado, to attend the Seventeenth National Encampment of the Grand Army...
Published: 1/29/25
The Beechers (2024)
Anyone interested in religion, politics, culture, and society in the nineteenth century U.S. should read "The Beechers."
Published: 1/27/25
Handsome Dan
A profile of Union general George B. McClellan's war horse "Daniel Webster," also known as "Handsome Dan."
Published: 1/22/25
Nat Turner, Black Prophet (2024)
"Nat Turner, Black Prophet" is only the latest in a line of recent and excellent scholarship on the Southampton revolt.
Published: 1/20/25
Family Ties
How understanding our familial connections to the past help us form our collective aspirations for the future.