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 book opens by highlighting how both parties changed between the Civil War and modern times, with the Democratic Party going from being the party of the enslavers to the home of progressive ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

There are a lot of books on Civil War letters but this is a very complete set. I just couldn't let them slip by unnoticed." Thomas, 72, of Swartz Creek, has something of an obsession with Civil ...

Although Stephanie McCurry, the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History at Columbia University, does not round up these stories in her tightly focused book, Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the ...

Foote, 88, died at a Memphis hospital Monday night. His three-volume history, “The Civil War: A Narrative,” provided the main research for an 11-hour PBS documentary that first aired in 1990 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...