Overview :In the wake of the firing on Fort Sumter, outraged Northerners looked forward to a quick and decisive victory over the Confederate rebels. B... Read More
Overview :Trailblazing essays on the home front from Civil War History For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best... Read More
Overview :Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities... Read More
Overview :The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. A comp... Read More
Overview :Mastering Wartime is the first comprehensive study of a Northern city during the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman argues that, although the war... Read More
Overview :One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabet... Read More
Overview :The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned No... Read More
Overview :Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choo... Read More