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From James McPherson’s definitive history to Tony Horwitz’s adventures among obsessives, here are the 11 best books on the Civil War in time for the 150th anniversary.
Tulsa book reviewer Connie Cronley says two new Western reads, one from a local author, offer gripping, factual accounts of ...
A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...
The sesquicentennial commemoration of the Civil War is contested territory. A “secession ball” held last December in Charleston, S.C., and the Feb. 19 reenactment of the inauguration of ...
Barbara F. Walter, a civil war expert, said the US is closer to violent conflict than many think. In her new book, Walter identifies three factors that increase the likelihood of a civil war.
The book opens by highlighting how both parties changed between the Civil War and modern times, with the Democratic Party going from being the party of the enslavers to the home of progressive ...
In his 2007 book, “Maryland Voices of the Civil War,” he drew on personal letters and other original source documents to argue that his home state never seriously considered secession.
This year marks both the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin ...
Can anything new be said about the American Civil War? Though the causes and campaigns have all been examined by ranks of historians, many books are coming this spring for the 150th anniversary of ...