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Published: 9/10/25
Fractured Freedoms (2025)
"Fractured Freedoms" offers a deeply researched and well written microhistory of the U.S. Civil War era in central Louisiana.
Published: 9/3/25
Lincoln the Citizen (2025)
Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame has shepherded another important primary source into print.
Published: 9/1/25
Fatal Terrain
How terrain helped influence the nature of combat—and of the many resulting casualties—on Civil War battlefields.
Published: 8/27/25
Gettysburg Surgeons (2025)
"Gettysburg Surgeons" is an engaging narrative that addresses neglected aspects along the battle's well-traveled road.
Published: 8/25/25
An Aromatic Belt
Aromatic belts were among the many suspect items peddled to Civil War soldiers in search of extra protections against disease.
Published: 8/20/25
Sexual Violence and American Slavery (2024)
"Sexual Violence and American Slavery" thoughtfully makes hard and critical history accessible and understandable.
Published: 8/18/25
Setting the Record Straight
A look at the trailblazing efforts of Civil War nurse Adaline Blanchard Tyler.
Published: 8/13/25
Texas: An American History (2025)
Benjamin Heber Johnson has mastered his subject in "Texas: An American History."
Published: 8/11/25
Extra Voices: Rebs on Yanks
Read quotes from Confederate soldiers and civilians that reflect their intense feelings about their Yankee opponents.
Published: 8/6/25
The Final Bivouac (2025)
Chris Calkins's "The Final Bivouac" documents the "end" of the war in Virginia.
Published: 8/4/25
A Confederate General in California
The story behind former Confederate general Tyree H. Bell’s unexpected final resting place.
Published: 7/30/25
The Lower Battlefield of Antietam (2025)
Robert M. Dunkerly deserves credit for calling much-needed attention to the decisive final attack at Antietam.
Published: 7/28/25
Battle at the Crater
Explore the Battle at the Crater, a pivotal moment in the Siege of Petersburg, through the first-hand account of a Union staff officer.
Published: 7/23/25
The Age of Reconstruction (2024)
Don Doyle's engagingly written and impressively researched "The Age of Reconstruction" invites scholars to consider what the Civil War era meant to the broader world.
Published: 7/21/25
A Brilliant “Boy Major”
The Gettysburg story of young Confederate artillery officer Joseph White Latimer, known as the "Boy Major."
Published: 7/16/25
The Pathfinder and the President (2025)
In "The Pathfinder and the President," John Bicknell employs a wide cast of characters to offer a fresh narrative on a familiar topic.
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Published: 7/13/25
NYC Draft Riots
Learn about the New York City draft riots that erupted in mid-July 1863 through illustrations published in various newspapers at the time.
Published: 7/9/25
1861: The Lost Peace (2025)
With Lincoln elected in November 1860 and the Deep South bitterly estranged, might a Union-saving compromise still have been possible?