Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Society for Military History.
Scroll through our newest releases!
We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.
From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with our editor Andrew Kinney, learn about new books in our Civil War America and Interconnections series, and more. Plus, you can check out the Journal of the Civil War Era too.
Congratulations!
Winner of the
2026 Distinguished Book Award for a First Book
Society for Military History
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Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display for SMH
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Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom
Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War–Era Nurse
Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
No Common Ground, Second Edition
Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation
Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
America's Long War on Terror
Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867
The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform
How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War
The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War
Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War
Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories
War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era
Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850
Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
The Biography of a Regiment
Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
France and the American Civil War
A Diplomatic History
African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust
The American Civil War in Indian Country
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
The End of the Overland Campaign
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America
A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
A Global Latin American History
How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism
Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home
American Patriotism after 9/11
US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition
Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800
Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War
American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865
The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle
Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
A Noisy, Fearless Life
Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
Searching for Black Confederates
The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980
What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today
The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
The Record of Murders and Outrages
Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction
Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South
Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War
A Study in Command
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
Centering Islam in World War II
Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War
Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek
Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898–1948
Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars
Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
Lincoln and the Union's War Governors
The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs
Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
How the Union Waged a Just War
The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary
How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War
The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons
Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas
A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath
Searching for Black Confederates
The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
France and the American Civil War
A Diplomatic History
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign
Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga