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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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for...

Award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents....

The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights....

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

John Bell Hood had done his job too well. In the fall of 1864, the commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee had harassed Federal forces in North Georgia so badly that the Union commander, William T. Sherman, decided to abandon his position....

The 12 essays in Wars within a War explore the internal stresses that posed serious challenges to the viability of the opposing sides in the Civil War....

The name Allan Pinkerton was for decades synonymous with private detective; indeed, the work “Pinkerton” was generally used for any private detective whether or not they were associated with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency....

Vicksburg is a dramatic account of the Confederate Army's attempts to capture the fortress of Vicksburg from October 1862 to July 1863, with a particular emphasis on the generalship of John C. Pemberton, the commander of the Confederate Army of Mississippi....

The Civil War involved the entire population in a way paralleled by no other conflict since the Revolution....

This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained...

In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown and his followers seized an armory in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, with a plan to use the armaments to further their cause. Brown was captured and was sentenced to death. During the hearing, Brown made his final speech to the judge and jury....

The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theater. It pitted Bragg's Army of Tennessee against Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties....

From early 1869 through the end of 1871, citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered their neighbors by the score....

We are glad these delightful pages have not been marred by discussion of the causes or conduct of the great struggle between the States....

At the height of the Civil War, word spreads through the poorest quarters of New York City that a military draft is about to be implemented -- a draft from which any rich man's son can buy an exemption. The outrage this inspires escalates into the worst urban conflagration in American history...

In The Road to Appomattox Hendrickson creates a vivid, firsthand account of the final year of the Civil War....

Many people in history have claimed that Abraham Lincoln never loved Mary Todd Lincoln, and that his love was focused upon Anne Rutledge. They have claimed that his wife hurt him politically though she drove him to the Presidency. Is there any truth to any of these claims? Find out....

The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War....