American History and the Civil War

Based on the author's more than thirty years of research and study of original Civil War sources, Webb Garrison's Civil War Dictionary is an author...

There are few systematic guides to the language used by the generation that fought the American Civil War. In the 150 years since the great conflic...

A Fresh Approach to the Second American Revolution Called America's second revolution by some historians, the Civil War produced many changes that ...

The battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 marked the turning point of the American Civil War. The apex of the Confederacy's final major invasion of the...

The first volume in The Civil War Explorer Series to be set in the eastern theater of the Civil War, Forged in Fire describes the significant campa...

In early May 1864 Union armies left their winter encampment near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and began a march to Atlanta. Four months later -- on Sept...

Includes more than 100 photographs, maps, fascinating tours of the routes, sidebar articles on military strategy and biographical sketches of gener...

First published in hardcover as The Women in Lincoln's Life ,this paperback is a revised and expanded version with a foreword by Frank Williams, c...

The Lincolns spent the summer of 1862 north of the White House at the Soldiers’ Home. The lush, cool hill overlooking the squalid capital promised ...

Was the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln a Confederate Operation? Conspiracy, terrorism, and obstruction of justice are not unique to recent events...

The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recount...

A compelling introduction to the fathers of America's presidents After so much literature about first ladies and first families, here finally is a...

The Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, El Salvador, Grenada, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Panama, the G...

War Is All Hell is a no-holds-barred look at the American Civil War through the words of the people who endured it. Filled with more than 470 quot...

The Price of Freedom is a two-volume anthology of forty-eight articles addressing the political, social, and military aspects of slavery and the Ci...

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A Civil War First! Never has anything comparable to this massive volume been published on the Western Theatre in America's War Between the States. ...

One of the most overlooked aspects of the American Civil War is the naval strategy played out by the U.S. Navy and the fledgling Confederate Navy, ...

Brink of Destruction: A Quotable History of the Civil War, edited by Randall Bedwell, is a no-holds-barred look at the American Civil War through ...

The second of a three-volume work that examines the life of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War, Quantrill in Texas: The Forgott...

The struggle for control of the eastern waters of North Carolina during the War Between the States was a bitter, painful, and sometimes humiliating...

During the evening of April 7, 1862, twenty-four men infiltrated the Confederate lines below Shelbyville, Tennessee, on their way to Marietta, Geo...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Red is the first book dedicated solely to chronicling the numerous campaigns waged against the Indians in the American ...

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." —Robert E. Lee The southern generals of the Civil War spoke of...