Rick Beard, Author at HistoryNet

Lincoln and McClellan meet in a tent

Why Did Lincoln and McClellan Fail to Connect?

by Rick Beard2/8/20241/30/2024

A new book explores the two men’s complementary abilities and their deep disagreements.

Book review: A Brutal Reckoning / Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

by Rick Beard11/8/20234/29/2024

Abraham Lincoln posing with books

A Pulitzer Prize Winner Explores a ‘morally imperfect’ Abraham Lincoln

by Rick Beard2/2/20232/2/2023

Meeting of Lincoln's cabinet

Book Review: Ways and Means / Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

by Rick Beard11/28/20224/29/2024

The Time the US Actually Welcomed a Russian Blockade—During the Civil War

by Rick Beard9/12/20224/27/2024

Salmon P. Chase portrait

Salmon P. Chase: President Lincoln’s Frenemy

by Rick Beard8/24/20228/24/2022

Book Review: ‘Colossal Ambitions’

by Rick Beard5/18/20229/21/2022

Review, Stories

What Happened at the First Battle Between Grant and Lee?

by Rick Beard1/26/20221/26/2022

A Worse Place Than Hell: A Review of the Union Debacle at Fredericksburg

by Rick Beard10/15/2021

Book Review: The Mysteries of Abraham Lincoln

by Rick Beard5/20/20214/29/2024