A detailed review of "A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South" by Melvin Patrick Ely.

A new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum explores the ways in which the American Civil War affected Canada.

Civil War Breakthroughs is back for a second season, in which expert historians discuss the medical renaissance that occurred during the conflict.

Union surgeon James T. Calhoun weighs in on the notion that close-passing projectiles had the ability to injure Civil War soldiers.

A Connecticut infantryman reflects on the death of his soldier-brother at the Battle of Antietam in a moving letter home.

An examination of the American Civil War's effects on faraway Hawaii through its impact on the native sugar industry.

A review of "Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry’s Lost Political Generation" by Robert D. Bland

Discover more strange and offbeat images from the Civil War in the fourth installment of our 'Odd Civil War Photos' series.

A review of "The Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, February 6–16, 1862" edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear.

How the Civil War's Morrill Act embedded military training in the institutional foundations of western higher education.

A review of "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, The Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery" by Richard Kreitner.

Learn about the mystery surrounding the murder of Captain Thomas M. McKay of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry during the American Civil War.

Learn about the mystery surrounding the murder of Captain Thomas M. McKay of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry during the American Civil War.

A review of "An Officer of Six Navies: The Life of Confederate Commander Hunter Davidson" by John M. Coski with Charles T. Jacobs.

A look at the reasons why a Union brigadier general was prosecuted for his conduct at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A detailed review of "Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire" by Louis L. Picone.

A detailed review of "A Desperate Fight: The Lives of Louisiana’s Confederate Soldiers" by Henry B. Motty.

Tracing Civil War armies' reliance on professional leadership back to the moment George Washington took command of the Continental Army in July 1775.

A detailed review of "The Confederate Resurgence of 1864" by William Marvel.

A look at the ways in which the northern press invoked Benedict Arnold to portray the actions of their southern opponents during the Civil War.

A detailed review of "Decisions on Western Waters: The Twenty-Seven Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations" by Michael D. Becker

How Secessionists disowned the Revolution’s universal declarations but claimed its authority in the run-up to the Civil War

A detailed review of "Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867" by Erika Pani.

How Abraham Lincoln squared the revolutionary change wrought by the Civil War with his professed loyalty to the Founding Fathers’ vision for the nation.

Over the years, numerous artists have produced renditions of the Battle of Gettysburg, some of them created within days of the fighting, others years afterward. We've assembled a variety of these port...

A detailed look at what the weather was like in the wake of the Battle of Gettysburg—and how it affected the wounded who recovered nearby.