“An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War.”

The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This

The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American literature, film, music, electronic media, the marketplace and public performa

The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla the

More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lo