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Published: 11/9/26
Extra Voices: On the March
Quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers that shed light on the challenges they faced while on the march during the Civil War.
Published: 11/4/26
Stonewall Jackson’s Winter Operations (2026)
Timothy R. Snyder's "Stonewall Jackson's Winter Operations" offers a valuable corrective to the historiography.
Published: 11/2/26
Richmond’s Last Monuments
A look at the fate of three Confederate monuments in Richmond's Capitol Square, which were relocated in August 2026.
Published: 10/30/26
A Prank Gone Wrong
An attempted prank on an unflappable friend goes terribly wrong in a story from the August 1867 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Published: 10/28/26
Why Lincoln (2026)
Jonathan W. White has assembled an impressive cast of contributors to reflect on Lincoln's enduring meaning and significance.
Published: 10/26/26
Tips for Army Surgeons
Medical student—and future Union army assistant surgeon—Charles Stubbs offered tips on dealing with battlefield injuries in an 1862 letter.
Published: 10/21/26
Desert Empire (2026)
Desert Empire provides readers with a compact and accessible history of the 1862 New Mexico campaign.
Published: 10/19/26
Nature’s Tracers Through Time
A look at geology's role in the endurance of "Witness" trees on Civil War battlefields.
Published: 10/14/26
Mercy in Disaster (2026)
Angela G. Schear's "Mercy in Disaster" captures the harsh realities of wartime hospitals and the limitations of Civil War medical care.
Published: 10/13/26
Dodging the Draft
A look at the lengths to which some drafted men in Philadelphia went to avoid Union military service in 1863.
Published: 10/7/26
This Great Contest Afloat (2026)
The naval theater of the war was essential to the aspirations of both belligerents, argues Neil Chatelain the latest contribution to the Emerging Civil War series.
Published: 10/5/26
The Keeper of Lost Avenue
The author spends a day with Gettysburg resident, expert, and icon Dean Schultz, the "keeper of Lost Avenue."
Published: 9/30/26
A Terrible Intimacy (2026)
Melvin Patrick Ely's new book is a sharp reminder of the squalid 'cornerstone' for which the southern states risked disunion.
Published: 9/28/26
Close to Conflict
A new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum explores the ways in which the American Civil War affected Canada.
Published: 9/23/26
A Mother’s Work (2026)
Megan VanGorder makes an important addition to scholarly conversations on women’s history and the history of medicine and nursing.
Published: 9/21/26
Wounded by Wind
Union surgeon James T. Calhoun weighs in on the notion that close-passing projectiles had the ability to injure Civil War soldiers.
Published: 9/16/26
More Important Than Good Generals (2025)
A useful if uneven study of the Army of the Tennessee's junior officers.
Published: 9/14/26
A Death at Antietam
A Connecticut infantryman reflects on the death of his soldier-brother at the Battle of Antietam in a moving letter home.