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ACW Book Review: Atlas of the Civil War

by George Skoch2/20/2018

Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of […]

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Stephen Foster’s Civil War

by John Vacha2/6/201810/26/2017

In his heyday he was America’s foremost popular composer. Then the demons caught up with him.

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Interview: Edward L. Ayers / Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

by Sarah Richardson1/23/20186/10/2024

Drawing on personal stories, Ed Ayers follows two counties through the Confederate invasion of Gettysburg to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and the contentious struggles that followed to cross “the boundary between the war and Reconstruction.”

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Wild West Book Review: Hancock’s War

by Johnny D. Boggs1/16/2018

Hancock’s War: Conflict on the Southern Plains by William Y. Chalfant, Arthur H. Clark […]

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American History Review: The American Civil War

by Dennis Showalter1/10/2018

The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan; Random House Forcing readers […]

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This Was the Vietnam War’s Decisive Event

by James H. Willbanks1/9/201811/29/2021

Communists attacks in January 1968, and the reaction to them, dashed U.S. hopes for an all-out victory in Vietnam

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‘Mimic War’ No More

by Fred L. Ray1/2/2018

‘Little Phil’ and ‘Old Jube’ get serious. For the footsore soldiers of the First […]

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CWT Book Review: The Civil War

by Edward H. Bonekemper III12/28/2017

The Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan, Alfred A. Knopf Disappointment is […]

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‘The War Was a Grievous Error’

by Peter Cozzens12/28/2017

General James Longstreet speaks his mind. In the summer of 1879, Alexander K. McClure, […]

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CWT Book Review: West Pointers in the Civil War

by Terry L. Beckenbaugh12/27/2017

West Pointers in the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace  by […]

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