Linking America’s Two Most Important Wars
One War or Two?: The United States Versus Confederates and Indians, 1861–1865
The Dark Turn—Late Nineteenth-Century Style
Reckoning with Confederate Desertion
Revisiting the Gettysburg Address
Tracking U. S. Grant’s Reputation
Robert E. Lee’s Multiple Loyalties
Attrition in Lee’s High Command
How Lee’s “Old War-Horse” Gained a New Following
Stonewall Jackson and the Confederate People
Stonewall and Old Jube in the Valley
Sheridan Makes His Name in the Valley
Toward Santa Fe and Beyond: Confederates in New Mexico
Let the Chips Fall Where They Will
The Union Army and Emancipation
Union Veterans Claimed They Fought for a Higher Cause
The War’s Overlooked Turning Points
Did the Fall of Vicksburg Really Matter?
Occupation and the Union Military Effort
“The Plain Folk’s Pioneer” Reframed History
Shelby Foote, Popular Historian
British Writers View the Confederacy
A Tactical History Masterpiece
PART V. TESTIMONY FROM PARTICIPANTS
Seeing the War through Soldiers’ Letters
Congressional Oversight with a Punch
Voices from the Army of the Potomac
Confederate Women View the War
A Window into Confederate Memory
An Indispensable Confederate and His Diary
PART VI. PLACES AND PUBLIC CULTURE
Battlefields as Teaching Tools
Reevaluating Virginia’s “Shared History”
Glory: Reflections on a Civil War Classic
Hollywood’s Twenty-First-Century Lincoln