From James McPherson’s definitive history to Tony Horwitz’s adventures among obsessives, here are the 11 best books on the Civil War in time for the 150th anniversary.

“The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War”: This coffee-table book, first published by the old American Heritage magazine company in 1960, offers lavish illustrations, including ...

Catch a glimpse of the history at the Johns Hopkins Evergreen Museum where the exhibit "17 Men: Portraits of Black Civil War Soldiers" is on display. At first it was a closely guarded family treasure.

About the book. Title: "Common Men in the War for the Common Man, Book II: The Civil War of the United States of America — History of the 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers After Gettysburg through ...

Regular folks and history buffs who believe Maryland leaned strongly toward the Confederacy during the Civil War era have never lacked evidence for the claim. It was a Marylander, after all, on ...

Dr. Bledsoe, an assistant professor of history at Lee, earned his doctoral and master’s degrees in American history at Rice University, and joined Lee’s Department of History, Political ...

Local historian is turning his collection and homegrown war lore into a book. Local Civil War history is told partially through the relics, like these at the Winery at Bull Run, Photo by Mike Salmon .

Regular folks and history buffs who believe Maryland leaned strongly toward the Confederacy during the Civil War era have never lacked evidence for the claim. It was a Marylander, after all, on ...

This is the argument presented in Heather Cox Richardson’s new book, How the South Won the Civil War.Throughout American history, she contends, the forces of oligarchy and democracy have been ...