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

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 ...

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

Gene Kelly finally receives full treatment as an important figure in the history of the film musi...

'The Battle of Atlanta, also known as the Battle of July 22 [1864] (the only engagement of the Ci...

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...

Abner Small wrote one of the most honest, poignant, and moving memoirs to come out of the Civil W...

Winner of the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies by the New York Military Affairs Symposium

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

'Here Earl J. Hess offers an in-depth military history of a critical phase of the long federal ca...

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

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

The Knoxville Campaign

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 fortifi...

Challenges the longstanding view that the rifle musket revolutionized warfare during the Civil Wa...

Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi

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

'This book was published with the assistance of the Fred W. Morrison Fund of the University of No...

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...

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

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

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

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...