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In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's presidency and the trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the crisis over Fort Sumter....

Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public more than a century and a half after the Civil War, Apostles of Disunion offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis....

In arguably the most famous fire in American history, a blaze in the southwestern section of Chicago began to burn out of control on the night of October 8, 1871....

The most overlooked phase of the Union campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the time period from May 18 to May 25, 1863, when Ulysses S. Grant closed in on the city and attempted to storm its defenses.

There have been innumerable biographies for Abraham Lincoln, but none quite stand apart from the rest like The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, published in 2013....

A constant fixture in American pop culture, the 19th century American West continues to be vividly and colorfully portrayed not just as a place but as a state of mind....

Volume three opens in May 1863 as Lee assessed his situation after the great Confederate victory at Chancellorsville and the loss of General Jackson....

This text provides an understanding of the complex relationship between the Continental army and the state militias during the Revolutionary War in America....

Dred Scott lived as a slave in free territory for an extended period. Desperate, Scott sued for his freedom, arguing that he could no longer be a slave in free territory....

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches...

Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824-1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was a sailor who just wanted to return home, where the biggest story of his life awaited him....

The Republican House Divided is the first comprehensive study of the relationships between the Republican Party and Civil War memory in the twentieth century.

A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship....

In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history....

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....

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author....

In 1880, Civil War veteran James Garfield was running as a Republican for president, and one of his supporters was a man named Charles Guiteau....

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature...

This Civil War recording is taken from a 1963 booklet by John I Robertson and the US Civil War Centennial Commission in the public domain. The recording presents in simple language, a survey of the 11 most important aspects of the 1861-1865 American conflict....

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...