This volume offers a social historian's view of the Civil War, shifting the focus away from
political and military leaders to look at how the war affected, and was affected by, ordinary …

Welcome to the special golden-anniversary issue of Civil War History. For the last fifty years
this journal has provided a home for the best scholars publishing in the field. This issue …

As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation
continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read …

The War for a Nation provides a brief introduction to the American Civil War from the
perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary …

Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on
countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions …

A revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath
on Americans—young and old, black and white, northern and southern. Civil War America …

The American Civil War was by far the bloodiest conflict in American history. Arising out of a
political crisis over the expansion of slavery, the war set the stage for the emergence of the …

Historians of the Civil War find themselves in the midst of a quest facing their colleagues in
other fields. The journey seeks nothing so grand as a Holy Grail, merely perspective on the …

Civil War Stories is Catherine Clinton's fresh look at some everyday and extraordinary
people whose lives were forever transformed by the impact of war. Her multifaceted …

Despite studies that have indicated that the American Revolutionary War affected large
numbers of civilians, historians still place the conflict in the context of limited warfare, thus …