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One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political...

In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincoln's lifetime....

This book attempts to show that the Civil War was more than a succession of battles; it was a struggle between two civilizations...

In this compelling biography, McPherson follows Abraham Lincoln from his early frontier days to his turbulent years in the White House....

Civil wars are the most common form of large-scale political violence. In the past thirty years, the study of civil wars has been one of the largest growing segments of the international relations field.

The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher. After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the job....

The United States is full of natural wonders, but few rival Yellowstone National Park....

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.

Ambrose Bierce brings to life and print the heart rendering stories about divided loyalties splitting families, states, countries, and individuals.....

James Longstreet's countermarch and Samuel Johnston's morning reconnaissance are two of the most enigmatic events of the Battle of Gettysburg. Both have been viewed as major factors in the Confederacy's loss of the battle and, in turn, the war. Yet much of it lies shrouded in mystery....

Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind....

Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War one of its biggest battles involved neither General Grant or General Lee....

In April 1861, Wayland Fuller Dunaway left his college classroom and entered the ranks of the men who fought the bloodiest war ever waged on the North American continent.....

Throughout his long and influential career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history....

One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is still thought of as one of the best presidents of the United States....

Lincoln's Speechwriter gives listeners a closer look into the man behind the political voice that was Lincoln himself.

Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was...

How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war....

At 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldiers out that bitterly cold morning paid little attention to them....

One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet....