Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Exploring Gettysburg Through the Eyes of its Black Citizens

In Gettysburg, black citizens found fragile freedom.

Gettysburg

Weaponry: The Rifle-Musket and the Minié Ball

The Civil War's deadliest weapons were not rapid-fire guns or giant cannon, but the simple rifle-musket and the humble minié ball.

Civil War Images

Abraham Lincoln

The Last Photo of Lincoln

When Abraham Lincoln’s remains arrived in New York City on April 24, 1865, hundreds of thousands of its once-antagonistic citizens gathered to mourn him.

Civil War Images

Lincoln Gets Buzzed

Looking notably robust near his 56th birthday, Abraham Lincoln sat for this portrait by an unknown photographer around February 1865.

Battle Of Vicksburg

Mag: America's Civil War Featured

Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi (Book Review)

Civil War Causes

Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War Memory

Harold Holzer explores revisionism and Civil War memory

Civil War Spies

Bill Anderson

Book Review: Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (by Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich): CWT

Civil War Battlefields

Civil War 1863

Is It Mosby

Is this a previously unknown portrait of the Gray Ghost?

Battle Of Richmond

Civil War Images

USS Monitor: The Crew Took Great Pride in Serving on the Famous Ship

The crew of Swedish Inventor John Ericsson's Monitor took great pride in serving on the renowned 'cheese box on a raft.'

Confederate Generals

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Emory Upton and the Shaping of the U.S. Army

How one soldier’s combat experiences and study of the world's great military powers led to a tactical revolution

Confederate Generals

Ron Maxwell Interview – ‘Gods and Generals’ Extended Director’s Cut

A HistoryNet exclusive interview with director Ron Maxwell about the extended director's cut of his film Gods and Generals, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Civil War 1863

Is It Mosby

Is this a previously unknown portrait of the Gray Ghost?

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum

The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum at Lincoln Memorial University houses one of the world's largest collections of artifacts, books, and manuscripts related to the 16th President of the U.S.

Abraham Lincoln Assassination

‘Saving Lincoln’ – Movie Review

The independent film 'Saving Lincoln' is a small, shining gem, a movie with heart and brains about Abraham Lincoln and his friend and bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon.

Confederacy

Robert E Lee

LEAVE THEM STANDING: Confederate monuments must remain at Gettysburg to help interpret the Civil War’s causes and consequences

Prominent historian Gary W. Gallagher argues how Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield can serve as invaluable teaching tools.

Confederacy

America’s Civil War: Horses and Field Artillery

Working side by side with soldiers, horses labored to pull artillery pieces into battle. Without them, field artillery could not have been used to such deadly effect.

Union Soldiers

Robert E Lee

LEAVE THEM STANDING: Confederate monuments must remain at Gettysburg to help interpret the Civil War’s causes and consequences

Prominent historian Gary W. Gallagher argues how Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield can serve as invaluable teaching tools.

Union Soldiers

Major General Adelbert Ames: Forgotten Man of the 20th Maine

June Issue Extra: Adelbert Ames preceded Joshua Chamberlain as colonel of the 20th Maine

Civil War Cannon

Civil War Images

USS Monitor: The Crew Took Great Pride in Serving on the Famous Ship

The crew of Swedish Inventor John Ericsson's Monitor took great pride in serving on the renowned 'cheese box on a raft.'

John Wilkes Booth

Was playwright George H. Booth related to John Wilkes Booth?

Union Army

Robert E Lee

LEAVE THEM STANDING: Confederate monuments must remain at Gettysburg to help interpret the Civil War’s causes and consequences

Prominent historian Gary W. Gallagher argues how Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield can serve as invaluable teaching tools.

Secession

Civil War Memory

Harold Holzer explores revisionism and Civil War memory

George Meade

Robert E Lee

LEAVE THEM STANDING: Confederate monuments must remain at Gettysburg to help interpret the Civil War’s causes and consequences

Prominent historian Gary W. Gallagher argues how Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield can serve as invaluable teaching tools.

MHQ Reviews

MHQ Reviews: Cain at Gettysburg

Army Of Northern Virginia

Second Battle of Manassas: Union Major General John Pope Was No Match for Robert E. Lee

Brash, bombastic John Pope tempted fate by returning to the old battleground at Manassas. He thought he had caught Robert E. Lee napping. He was wrong.

John Browns Raid On Harpers Ferry

Riverside resort threatens Harpers Ferry’s viewshed

Abolitionism

Timeline: The Abolition of the Slave Trade

William Wilberforce waged a long campaign to convince Britain to abolish the slave trade.

Underground Railroad

Slavery

British Textiles Clothe the World

How did Britain come to dominate the global production of cloth?

By Claire Hopley

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Tubman

British Textiles Clothe the World

How did Britain come to dominate the global production of cloth?

By Claire Hopley

Secession

Civil War Memory

Harold Holzer explores revisionism and Civil War memory

Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation

Slavery

Underground Railroad

British Textiles Clothe the World

How did Britain come to dominate the global production of cloth?

By Claire Hopley

Slavery

Book Review: The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry (edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller): ACW

States Rights

States Rights

John C. Calhoun: The Man Who Started the Civil War

If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War, it was John C. Calhoun—genius pragmatist, and racist.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Tennessee town memorializes Nathan B. Forrest’s horse

Nathan Bedford Forrest

The Angola Train Wreck

Nearly 50 people died and many more injured in the 1867 train wreck known as the Angola Horror. John D. Rockefeller narrowly missed being one of them.

Robert E Lee

Robert E Lee

LEAVE THEM STANDING: Confederate monuments must remain at Gettysburg to help interpret the Civil War’s causes and consequences

Prominent historian Gary W. Gallagher argues how Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield can serve as invaluable teaching tools.

Robert E Lee

Battle of Resaca: Botched Union Attack

William Tecumseh Sherman waited expectantly to hear that his accomplished young protégé, James B. McPherson, had successfully gotten astride the railroad at Resaca and cut off the Confederate line of retreat. Hours went by with no word from McPherson. What was 'Mac' doing in Snake Creek Gap?

Stonewall Jackson

ACW Feature

How in the World Did They Shoot Stonewall Jackson?

Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is accidentally shot by his own men during the Battle of Chancellorsville. His death, perhaps, alters the course of the war itself.

Bill Anderson

Book Review: Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (by Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich): CWT

Abraham Lincoln Assassination

‘Saving Lincoln’ – Movie Review

The independent film 'Saving Lincoln' is a small, shining gem, a movie with heart and brains about Abraham Lincoln and his friend and bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon.

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