The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North Michael Thomas Smith; […]
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Ural on URLs: Gilder Lehrman Institute
gilderlehrman.org/institute/era_civilwar.php My latest book project brought me to “The Civil War Era” subsite of […]
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CWT Book Review: Battle of Glendale and Battle of Fair Oaks
The Battle of Glendale: The Day the South Nearly Won the Civil War Jim […]
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CWT Book Review: Memoirs of the Civil War
Memoirs of the Civil War: William W. Chamberlaine Edited by Robert E.L. Krick; University […]
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CWT Book Review: Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done
Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the […]
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Witness to Slaughter
Antietam National Battlefield’s Miller farmhouse is in the midst of a major overhaul. In […]
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Simple. Cheap. Deadly.
Nasty little coal bombs. In January 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis sat at his […]
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Samuel Clemens Con Artist
Twain tapped his inner Tom Sawyer to defraud abolitionists.
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Taking Back Arlington
Robert E. Lee’s son Custis beat the federal government and reclaimed the family home. […]
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Blue and Gray: The War Through Soldiers’ Letters
Few ways of exploring the Civil War yield greater satisfaction than reading letters written […]