Ca. 1860 tot ca. 1869

Not Made by Slaves describes the efforts of early-nineteenth-century businesses to end plantation slavery by promoting commerce in “legitimate” goods.

Met de literaire roman Al wat schittert won de Nieuw-Zeelandse schrijver Eleanor Catton in 2013 de Booker Prize. Het is 1866, en Walter Moody is naar

In this illuminating volume, Justin Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant’s midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee enginee

The story of the people of Herkimer County, caught up in the cataclysm that was the Civil War.

Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station is a fast-paced and dynamic account of how the Army of Northern Virginia carried the war above the Rappahannock River

A fully illustrated and accessible history of the Shiloh campaign.

With chapters on Abraham Lincoln’s encouragement of black deportation, the establishment of the Ile a Vache plantation, the futile attempts at damage

The dramatic, moving story of The Last Citadel is told largely through the words of the men and women who were there, including officers, common soldi

Recounts the rise and fall of a nineteenth-century Tennessee town, a community that was not a typical antebellum town in the cotton belt. This is a ca

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of ethical, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific challenges that Black American reformers lodged ag

In 2011, Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battles—from

What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there toge

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant i

After the guns of Manassas fell silent, the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next. Popular history has us believe that

Even before the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was preparing for the arduous task of getting his defeated army back safely into Virgini

Dan Butterfield played a pivotal role during the Civil War. He led troops in the field at the brigade, division, and corps level, wrote the 1862 Army

John C. Reed who fought through the war in General Lee's Army of Northern Virigina wrote detailed letters and correspondence of his experience on the

Few students of the Civil War know that legendary historian Edwin C. Bearss produced a classic study on the little-known but significant Tupelo Campai

One of the most influential actions of the second day of battle at Gettysburg occurred nearly one mile west of Little Round Top in farmer Joseph Sherf

The final days of the Confederacy saw a kaleidoscope of action in the Eastern Theater, with most Civil War historians focusing on the imminent demise