The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va., has about 60,000 square feet of exhibit […]
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CWT Book Review: Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, & Memoir edited by S.T. Joshi; Library of […]
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Museum Review: Jerseymen in the Civil War
Gone for a Soldier Through July 1, 2012; Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in partnership […]
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CWT Book Review: The Civil War Lawyers
The Civil War Lawyers: Constitutional Questions, Courtroom Dramas, and the Men Behind Them Arthur […]
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CWT Book Review: This Great Struggle
This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War Steven E. Woodworth; Roman & Littlefield Publishers The […]
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War in Watercolors
Of all the soldier artists who chronicled the war, perhaps none was more accomplished […]
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‘A Rebel Batery Unlimbered and Opened on Us’
Union Lieutenant William M. Reid at Shiloh. On April 6, 1862, the first day […]
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Miss Alcott Goes to War
Eager to support the North, the budding author volunteered for a fledgling corps of female nurses.
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The ’61 Springfield Rifle Musket
Federal infantrymen were armed mainly with the Springfield rifle musket, Model 1861, or variants […]
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Screaming Birds of Prey
Never has a warplane so obsolete, vulnerable and technologically basic wrought so much damage to its enemies as did the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka.