Moncure Conway Rewrites the Past
April 15, 2024
By Frank Cirillo The author of The Abolitionist Civil War describes his efforts to separate fact from fiction in the autobiographical record of an antislavery activist. As a historian, I… READ MORE
Category: Civil War
Historical Déjà Vu
September 19, 2023
By Ritchie Devon Watson The climate of division and discontent that characterized the United States during the antebellum period bears some striking resemblances to current times, Ritchie Devon Watson notes… READ MORE
Sherman and the Strains of Leadership
January 18, 2023
By Eric Michael Burke In this post, Eric Michael Burke recounts the circumstances that led William Tecumseh Sherman to confess, “I have not the confidence of a Leader in this… READ MORE
Southern Ghosts of Christmas Past
December 23, 2020
Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women, a new book by Julia Nitz, analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from… READ MORE
Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez Talks About Treason Prosecution
June 3, 2019
Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez—lawyer, historian, and author—takes us through the authors and books that inspired his book, Treason on Trial: The United States v. Jefferson Davis. The current trend in historical scholarship… READ MORE
How Britain Imagined the American Civil War
July 13, 2018
The academic study of the British public’s attitude toward the American Civil War began almost a century ago with the publication of Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American… READ MORE
Military Occupation, Emancipation, and the Civil War: Essential Scholarship
December 1, 2017
Historians of the American Civil War have authored an impressive and increasingly complex history of the common soldiers who waged the conflict. Explaining soldiers’ motivations to enlist, charting their steadfast… READ MORE
Writing Hood’s Texas Brigade: Books on Civil War Soldiers and Families
October 20, 2017
Over the last fifteen years, historians have increased their focus on the indelible link between Civil War military units and their families and home communities. This connection played a defining… READ MORE
The Civil War Battles for Chattanooga
April 21, 2014
From now until D-Day (June 6th), get 45% off hundreds of military history titles. Learn more here, and remember to visit the blog every Monday of the sale to read… READ MORE
Discovering Ancestor’s Involvement in the Civil War Leads to Renewed Interest in History
June 21, 2013
In our modern society of technical gadgets and rapid access to information via the Internet and tablets/smart phones, a question frequently offered is, Why should I be interested in that?… READ MORE