Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North By Jennifer L. […]
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CWT Book Review: The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads
The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads and the Civil War’s Final Campaign by Eric J. […]
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CWT Book Review: This Mighty Scourge
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War by James M. McPherson, Oxford University […]
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Mahony: Political Dissident, Prisoner of State
In the early morning hours of August 14, 1862, U.S. Marshal H.M. Hoxie, his […]
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A Loss of Innocence at Shiloh
The first shots on a peaceful Sunday morning in April 1862 would herald the […]
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Finding the Lost Maps
Civil War topographical engineer turned Gothic novelist Ambrose Bierce grew up in Elkhart, Ind., […]
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Make Straight His Path: Mapmaking in the Civil War
Combat commanders may have gotten all the glory, but they might have never had […]
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Interview: James M. McPherson / The Lincoln Legacy
Historians James M. McPherson and Peter S. Carmichael discuss Abraham Lincoln’s lasting effect on national unity, federal and presidential power and the American mind.
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Civil Liberties v. National Security: The Long Shadow of the Civil War
Controversial questions over the assumption of war powers and the denial of civil rights that arose from 1861 to 1865 are every bit as potent and prevalent today.
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Behind the Steam Power of Civil War Armies
I am willing to do all that I can do,” Confederate railroad man F. […]