American Civil War
Gordon Berg |
Published: February 10, 2012 at 5:46 pm
'John Brown's Body' by Stephen Vincent Benet, published in 1928, remains a vibrant tapestry of America's diversity and its unity, its 15,000 lines re-imagining the Civil War as Lincoln understood it.
Noah Andre Trudeau |
Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:35 pm
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Cain at Gettysburg
By Ralph Peters. 432 pp. Forge, 2012. $25.99.
Reviewed by Noah Andre Trudeau
I confess to being a fan of Civil War fiction involving real battles. Over the years I've come to …
Tony Horwitz |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:27 pm
An excerpt from Tony Horwitz's new book, "Midnight Rising," about the militant abolitionist.
Michael and Barbara Foster |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Adah Isaacs Menken, aka “The Naked Lady,” may have begun life as a poor girl from New Orleans, but with talent and courage she became THE outstanding actress during the era of America's Civil War.
Gordon Berg |
Published: August 18, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Walt Whitman has the reputation as a Civil War writer, but it was his younger brother, George Washington Whitman, who saw the war up close and personal as a member of Company K, 51st New York Volunteer Infantry.
Ernest B. Furgurson |
Published: August 03, 2011 at 12:56 pm
In Winston Churchill’s fanciful alternative history, Robert E. Lee wins at Gettysburg, and Jeb Stuart prevents World War I
Gary W. Gallagher |
Published: August 03, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Historian Gary W. Gallagher picks Union and Confederate officers whose hype doesn't match reality.
Jay Wertz |
Published: July 29, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Nearly 9,000 Civil War reenactors staged battle re-creations as part of the activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Manassas/Battle of Bull Run.
Neal West |
Published: July 15, 2011 at 3:21 pm
A volunteer at the Manassas National Battlefield Park talks about portraying history while wearing 45 pounds of clothing and accoutrements in summer heat, the questions visitors ask, and why he does it.
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: May 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm
A roundup of televised events for Memorial Day weekend 2011—and information on how the holiday began.
Pamela D. Toler |
Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham's last work was conceived to avenge a brutal Civil War action, but it failed to achieve its purpose and derailed his career.
Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
The "young Napoleon" had a viable plan to beat the Confederacy. What went wrong?
Gordon Berg |
Published: April 08, 2011 at 3:18 pm
In September 1862 some 1,600 Union cavalrymen seemingly trapped at Harpers Ferry carried out one of the Civil War's most successful missions of stealth and deception.
Glenn W. LaFantasie |
Published: March 08, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Not long after the Civil War opened in 1861, measles cut down the ranks of an Alabama infantry unit like a biblical plague or the medieval Black Death.
Warren Wilkinson and Steven E. Woodworth |
Published: March 08, 2011 at 1:34 pm
After Virginia's secession in 1861 and the start of the Civil War, General Joseph E. Johnston and his men experienced an idyllic summer in the northern Shenandoah Valley.
Stephen W. Sears |
Published: March 08, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Stephen Sears writes of how the Army of the Potomac's politically appointed generals and short-term volunteer troops nearly unhinged Lincoln’s plans in 1861 to win the Civil War.
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