Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivat...

Earl J.Hess’s study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover bat...

The 1862 battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas was one of the largest Civil War engagement...

The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a l...

Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett’s Charge, Earl Hess offers the ...

The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina’s best-known and most successful ...

In the fall and winter of 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside and Confederate General James Long...

For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a ran...

Animals mattered in the Civil War. Horses and mules powered the Union and Confederate armies, pro...

Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and...

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War...

On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sher...

A comprehensive examination of the iconic Civil War battle, its tragic outcome, and the personali...

'Banners to the Breeze' analyzes three major Civil War campaigns that were conducted following a ...

During Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glory days, the studio's Arthur Freed Unit made a string of dazzling...

During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effe...

Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University (L...

Whether as a curiosity or a beloved idol, Gene Kelly (1912-1996) lives on in our cultural memory ...

As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they...

Offers a sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to sold...

In the Trenches at Petersburg , the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortif...

The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told f...

The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a l...

Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivat...

The strongly negative opinions of Confederate general Braxton Bragg's contemporaries have continu...

While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Ke...

The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War offers a wide-ranging, multi-perspective account of...

'The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deploye...

Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare recounts the use of landmines ...

Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare recounts the use of landmines ...

So remarkable was the fighting to the east of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, that it earned its place ...

The most overlooked phase of the Union campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the time p...

A sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to soldiers an...

'The Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War C...