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Lyman Gibson Bennett (1832–1904) had a curious mind and a keen sense of humor. He had an engineer’s mentality and a poet’s grasp of language, except for spelling. As a Union soldier, Bennett saw exte …

Amid the chaos of battle and the harsh conditions of prisoner-of-war camps, tens of thousands of soldiers from both the Union and Confederate armies made controversial decisions to switch their alleg …

Winner of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize in History. Explore the rich history of the American West in this essential volume by Paxson. Covering the period from 1763 to 1893, this comprehensive work offers a …

Colorful, dramatic, blundering, and tragic – these are some of the adjectives that have been applied to the two-day engagement at Shiloh. This battle, which bears the biblical name meaning “place of …

The largest battle fought in Kentucky during the American Civil War occurred at a small, crossroads town named Perryville. As Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Heartland Offensive sputtered through Ke …

“The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell provide a sweeping view of the nineteenth century. Such chronological breadth makes this volume truly exceptional and important. Through Ewell’s eyes we see t …

America’s Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author’s unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of internatio …

Winner of the 2022 Douglas Southall Freeman Award! Confederate historiography of the Civil War is rich with stories of leaders and decision makers—oft-repeated names immortalized by their association …

Explores how marketers have leveraged feelings of personal familiarity in modern consumer capitalism Our wired world connects us with corporations in ways that, just a generation ago, would have been …

How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students today Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment remo …