A Rebel’s previously unpublished letters chronicle camp life, politics and Confederate triumph. On May […]
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Review: Diamond in the Rough
You won’t find Wilmington, Calif., high on most lists of must-see Civil War locales. A visit to Wilmington’s Drum Barracks Civil War museum—about 20 miles south of Los Angeles, on the Pacific coast—might change a lot of minds, however. The museum does a wonderful job of shining light on the underappreciated role California and the Southwest Borderlands played during the war.
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CWT Book Review: We Have the War Upon Us
We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860- […]
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CWT Book Review: Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy
Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy Martin H. Quitt, Cambridge University Press Stephen A. […]
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George Meade’s Mixed Legacy
THE GENERAL WON AT GETTYSBURG. IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. George Gordon Meade was 47 […]
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In Search of Lincoln and His World: Interview of Eric Foner
Eric Foner is one of a handful of historians who have won the Bancroft […]
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CWT Book Review: Conflicting Memories on the “River of Death”
Conflicting Memories on the “River of Death”: The Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, […]
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CWT Review: Photography and the American Civil War
Photography and the American Civil War Metropolitan Museum of Art, Through September 2 Leaning […]
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Stealing the Sun: Mathew Brady’s Gettysburg Photographs
Photographer Mathew Brady reached Gettysburg nearly two weeks after the battle ended 150 years […]
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Lights, Camera, Abe-Mania
How we remember Lincoln says more about us than it does about him. Was […]