The Bookshelf

Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important books on virtually every facet of the sixteenth president’s life.

Emily Owens's "Consent in the Presence of Force" offers both a cultural history of violence in the antebellum U.S. South and an intellectual history of Black women’s survival.

Sharon A. Roger Hepburn has undertaken an extremely challenging task and performed it superbly in "Private No More."

Timothy J. Orr's "The Battle of Gettysburg 1863" is a perfect guide for battlefield visitors....and a handy reference for scholars.

Tamika Nunley's "The Demands of Justice" explores what justice looked like under slavery.

C.W. Goodyear is determined to give James A. Garfield a fresh look.

Kerri Greenidge's "The Grimkes" is a staggering feat of research and storytelling.

In "Small but Important Riots," Robert F. O'Neill recounts the roiling cauldron of small unit actions at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville.

Odd Lovoll's "Colonel Hans Christian Heg" adds to a well-established literature on immigrants who served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

Anyone interested in civil wars throughout world history should read Will Fowler's "The Grammar of Civil War."