Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

So, I thank him for writing these books, and I greatly encourage you to buy the new one and get your mind right about the dangers we face. The current ICE Insurrection of the revolutionary Left should ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...

More than 60,000 books have been published about the U.S. Civil War since 1865. Historians have spilled much ink over the nation’s deadliest conflict, one that led to the deaths of more than 600,000 ...

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x, 317. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $89.99. ISBN: 1108492282 A Richly Documented and ...

This week, a look at two upcoming book club winners and a trip back in time with a treasure trove of discovered tales in South Carolina’s Civil War history. Read on: Shari Stauch Young Readers: Learn ...

Strategy is the focus of most of the modern military historians. Their driving assumption is that strategy is the ‘dog’ and tactics is the ‘tail.’ In other words, strategy shapes the course and ...

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Gen. Ulysses S. Grant embraced Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, but it was Gen. William T. Sherman and his destruction of Atlanta — and subsequent march through Georgia — that paved the ...

As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief can drift far from the truth. Much like the old game of telephone, the ...