General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse by Joseph T. Glatthaar, Free Press. The […]
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Jefferson Davis and the Politics of Command
The Southern president’s single-minded commitment to victory undercut the Confederacy’s chance for success.
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Interview: Chandra Manning / Common Soldiers and Slavery
Chandra Manning is an assistant professor at Georgetown University whose provocative book What This […]
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CWT Today- August 2008
Three Soldiers, Three Ceremonies Veterans get their due nearly a century and a half […]
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Daily Quiz for April 30, 2018
Mildred McAfee Horton served as the first director of this organization.
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Book Review: World War II at Sea
Craig Symonds presents a broad, deep retrospective of the key maritime clashes and naval figures of World War II
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Book Review: Canadians on the Somme, 1916
William Stewart relates the overlooked Canadian experience in the 1916 Battle of the Somme
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Book Review: The Armies of Ancient Persia
Historian Kaveh Farrokh studies the Sassanians in his first book of a three-volume history of ancient Persia
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Book Review: Lexington and Concord
George Daughan delves into the “whys” behind the spark that set off the American Revolution
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Book Review: Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger look at the War of 1812 clash that birthed “The Age of Jackson”