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The War That Made America
Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
Edited by Caroline E. Janney , Peter S. Carmichael , Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Published: March 2024
Arguing until Doomsday
Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy
Published: February 2024
A Man of Bad Reputation
The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction
Published: August 2023
A Republic in the Ranks
Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac
Published: August 2023
Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Published: May 2023
Citizens of a Stolen Land
A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
Published: April 2023
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Published: March 2023
Ends of War
The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
Published: February 2023
The Democratic Collapse
How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
Published: November 2022
Administering Freedom
The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau
By Dale Kretz
Published: October 2022
At War with King Alcohol
Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War
Published: September 2022
The Women's Fight
The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
Published: August 2022
A Contest of Civilizations
Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
Published: August 2022
Raising the White Flag
How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
Published: August 2022
The Whartons' War
The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865
Edited by William C. Davis , Sue Heth Bell Foreword by Peter S. Carmichael
Published: July 2022
The Heart of Hell
The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle
Published: July 2022
Kentucky, 1861
Loyalty, State, and Nation
By Nicolas W. Proctor , Margaret Storey
Published: July 2022
Benjamin Franklin Butler
A Noisy, Fearless Life
Published: May 2022
Count the Dead
Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It
Published: May 2022
Love and Duty
Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
Published: April 2022
Bonds of War
How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
Published: April 2022
Spectacle of Grief
Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
Published: April 2022
Searching for Black Confederates
The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
Published: February 2022
Gettysburg 1963
Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town
Published: November 2021
This Grand Experiment
When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.
Published: November 2021
The End of Days
African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation
Published: November 2021
Practical Liberators
Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War
Published: November 2021
Choctaw Confederates
The American Civil War in Indian Country
Published: November 2021
To Address You as My Friend
African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
Edited by Jonathan W. White Foreword by Edna Greene Medford
Published: October 2021
Rites of Retaliation
Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
By Lorien Foote
Published: October 2021
The Generals' Civil War
What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today
Published: September 2021
The Record of Murders and Outrages
Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction
Published: September 2021
A Union Indivisible
Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South
Published: August 2021
The Last Battleground
The Civil War Comes to North Carolina
Published: August 2021
Apostle of Union
A Political Biography of Edward Everett
Published: August 2021
Meade at Gettysburg
A Study in Command
Published: June 2021
West of Slavery
The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
By Kevin Waite
Published: April 2021
No Common Ground
Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
By Karen L. Cox
Published: April 2021
Radical Sacrifice
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
Published: March 2021
Braxton Bragg
The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
By Earl J. Hess
Published: February 2021
The Ordeal of the Reunion
A New History of Reconstruction
Published: February 2021
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union
Published: February 2021
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Published: February 2021
Storming Vicksburg
Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
By Earl J. Hess
Published: October 2020
Fighting for Citizenship
Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War
By Brian Taylor
Published: September 2020
Embattled Freedom
Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
Published: August 2020
Illusions of Emancipation
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Published: August 2020
Fighting for Atlanta
Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
By Earl J. Hess
Published: August 2020
This War Ain't Over
Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America
By Nina Silber
Published: August 2020
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek
Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
By Earl J. Hess
Published: August 2020