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Tony Silber's "Twelve Days" is a deeply researched, propulsive narrative of Washington, D.C., in April 1861 ..read more
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Jonathan W. White offers an enthralling and deeply researched account of the astonishing career of Appleton Oaksmith, a Civil War era sea captain, slaver, and politician ..read more
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In "The Governor's Pawns," Randall Gooden opens a new perspective on the formation and early years of war-torn West Virginia ..read more
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Fitzhugh Brundage's "A New History of the American South" delivers a sweeping synthesis and historiographical review of southern history ..read more
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"July 22" is a carefully crafted battle narrative written by Earl Hess, one of the Civil War's most talented chroniclers ..read more
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How did a state born of Unionist loyalties come to revere one of Lee's lieutenants ..read more
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Emily Owens's "Consent in the Presence of Force" offers both a cultural history of violence in the antebellum U.S. South and an intellectual history of Black women’s survival ..read more
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In "Sand, Science, and the Civil War," Scott Hippensteel addresses the geological factors that shaped virtually every facet of the conflict ..read more
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Charles Reagan Wilson pours a career's worth of research, observation, and expertise into "The Southern Way of Life ..read more
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William L. Shea's "Union General" is a sympathetic biography of an important U.S. general whose embrace of emancipation earned him enemies ..read more