Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series

The American Civil War left indelible marks on America’s imagination—collectively and as individuals.In the century and a half since the war, musicians have written songs, writers have crafted histories...

This collection of essays recounts the fall of some of the most famous, infamous, and under-appreciated commanders from both north and south. It is designed to shed new light and insight on some of the most significant casualties of the war.

Although primarily a land conflict, the Civil War also raged on the water.Nothing in the history and traditions of the U.S. Navy prepared it for civil war. The sea service expanded tenfold from a third-rate...

Often relegated to a backseat by action in the Eastern Theater, the Western Theater is actually where the Federal armies won the Civil War. In the West, Federal armies split the Confederacy in two—and then split it in two again. This book revisits some of the Civil War’s most legendary battlefields: Shiloh, Chickamauga, Franklin, the March to the S

This collection of essays explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the war—and how those markers have impacted our understanding of it. It is designed to shed new light and insight on the monuments and memorials that give us some of our most iconic and powerful connections to the battlefields and the men who fought there.

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant would come to symbolize the armies they led as the spring campaign got underway. This book recounts some of the most famous episodes and most compelling human dramas from the marquee match-up of the Civil War.

The fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 fundamentally changed the strategic picture of the American Civil War, though its outcome had been anything but certain.

Gettysburg, the largest land battle on the North American continent, has maintained an unshakable grip on the American imagination.