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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was …
Ashes of Glory
On the day the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a mob in Richmond clambered on top of the Capitol to raise the Confederate flag. Four years later, another flag was raised …
Twilight at Little Round Top
On July 2nd, 1863, forces from the Confederacy s Army of Northern Virginia and the Union s Army of the Potomac clashed over the steep, rocky hill known as Little Round Top. This …
Civil War In The American West
As most Americans of the 1860s fixed their attention on the battlefields of Shiloh and Manassas, another war raged on the largely unsettled Western frontier. This splendid work by …
Chancellorsville, 1863
For 130 years historians and military strategists have been obsessed by the battle of Chancellorsville. It began with an audaciously planned stroke by Union general Joe Hooker as …
Jefferson Davis, American
From a distinguished historian of the America South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle. Jefferson Davis …
The Negro's Civil War
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Battle Cry of Freedom draws on excerpts from speeches, letters, articles, and official documents to point out the military and …