Overview :Andrew Johnson, who became president after the assassination of Lincoln, oversaw the most crucial and dramatic phase of Reconstruction. Hist... Read More
Overview :Our hurly-burly sagas of war often overlook the deep connections between warriors and the families they left behind. In Tom Taylor's Civil W... Read More
Overview :Winning and Losing in the Civil War collects fifteen of the most influential short writings by accomplished Civil War historian Albert Caste... Read More
Overview :Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the North can remove their dead and wounded. For two hours, Yankees and Rebels m... Read More
Overview :Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the North can remove their dead and wounded. For two hours, Yankees and Rebels m... Read More
Overview :Indeed, the story of General Price -- as this account by Albert Castle shows -- is the story, in large part, of the Confederacy's struggle i... Read More
Overview :"The long agony" was over: Kansas, as of January 29, 1861, was a state--it had "moved to America." In Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, and oth... Read More
Overview :The Quantrill legend is rooted in acts of savage violence throughout Kansas and Missouri during the Civil War--deeds both romanticized and v... Read More
Overview :Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri--and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brie... Read More
Overview :Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight. But the Union had the manpower, the money, the materiel, and, most importa... Read More
Overview :Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri--and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brie... Read More
Overview :The American Civil War is filled with fascinating characters. This collection of biographical essays on the "winners and losers" of the Civi... Read More