| Billy the Barber Shaves Lincoln |
Steve Inskeep |
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| Salmon Chase Saves the Union |
Walter Stahr |
Spring 2024 |
| “With Malice Toward None” |
Jon Meacham |
Winter 2023 |
| Lincoln Walks a Tightrope |
David S. Reynolds |
Spring 2022 |
| Lincoln's Thoughts on the “Mobocratic Spirit” |
Bruce Watson |
February/March 2021 |
| Lincoln Warned About Mobs and Demagogues |
David S. Reynolds |
February/March 2021 |
| Lincoln and Presidential Character |
David S. Reynolds |
October 2020 |
| Congress Fights the Civil War |
Fergus M. Bordewich |
Spring 2020 |
| President Lincoln's Disastrous First Month |
James M. McPherson |
Spring 2020 |
| Lincoln's Corrupt War Department |
Stephen B. Oates |
February/March 2021 |
| “Let Us Die to Make Men Free” |
Richard M. Gamble |
Summer 2019 |
| Lincoln's Boys |
Joshua Zeitz |
Spring 2018 |
| The Struggles of Edwin Stanton |
Walter Stahr |
Fall 2017 |
| Convention Surprises |
Edwin S. Grosvenor |
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| "Oh doctor, do what you can!" |
Edwin S. Grosvenor |
Summer 2012 |
| Baltimore Riot |
|
Spring 2011 |
| Lincoln Inaugurated |
|
Spring 2011 |
| A Spirit and Power Far Beyond Its Letter |
Harold Holzer |
Summer 2010 |
| A Graceful Exit |
Jay Winik |
Winter 2010 |
| “The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us” |
Edward L. Ayers |
Winter 2010 |
| Lincoln As Commander in Chief |
James M. McPherson |
Winter 2009 |
| Lincoln’s Home Away from Home Reopens |
Ann Geracimos |
Spring/Summer 2008 |
| Showdown at Sumter |
James M. McPherson |
Winter 2010 |
| Was Jefferson Davis Captured in a Dress? |
James L. Swanson |
Fall 2010 |
| The Imperial Congress |
Thomas Fleming |
Fall 2010 |
| America's Oddest Election |
Harold Holzer |
Fall 2010 |
| Lincoln’s Plan For Reconstruction |
James G. Randall | Richard N. Current |
June 1955 |
| The Boy In The Window |
Stefan Lorant |
June 1955 |
| “To Open The Door” |
Milton S. Eisenhower |
April 1955 |
| Riding The Circuit With Lincoln |
Willard King |
February 1955 |
| The Speech That Made The Man |
Harold Holzer |
Winter 2010 |
| Lincoln the Orator |
Harold Holzer |
Winter 2009 |
| Lincoln and the Navy |
Craig L. Symonds |
Winter 2009 |
| If Lincoln Hadn’t Died... |
Eric Foner |
Winter 2009 |
| Lincoln & Frederick Douglass |
Stephen Kendrick | Paul Kendrick |
Winter 2009 |
| Lincoln’s Legacy |
Harold Holzer |
Winter 2009 |
| Time Machine |
Frederic D. O'Brien |
April/May 2007 |
| 1832 - Lincoln the Indian Fighter |
Frederic D. O'Brien |
April/May 2007 |
| Resources |
|
November/December 2006 |
| The Gettysburg Gospel |
Harold Holzer |
November/December 2006 |
| The Three Faces of George Washington |
Frederick E. Allen |
November/December 2006 |
| The Buyable Past |
David Lander |
November/December 2006 |
| History Now |
|
November/December 2006 |
| The Madness of Mary Lincoln |
Jason Emerson |
June/July 2006 |
| The Other Lincoln Family Home |
Harold Holzer |
February/March 2006 |
| America’s Most Famous Letter |
Jason Emerson |
February/March 2006 |
| “As Bad As She Could Be” |
Harold Holzer |
February/March 2006 |
| The Best Civil War Books |
Stephen W. Sears |
November/December 2004 |
| “What is Hell to One Like Me...?” |
Richard Lawrence Miller |
August/September 2004 |
| Still A Great Hall After All |
Harold Holzer |
April/May 2004 |
| “Your Brave and Early-Fallen Child…” |
Kevin Baker |
February/March 2004 |
| The Test of Reconciliation in Terrible Times |
James M. McPherson |
November/December 2001 |
| The Trouble With the Bixby Letter |
Michael Burlingame |
July/August 1999 |
| How I Met Lincoln |
Harold Holzer |
July/August 1999 |
| Is That Lincoln in Phil-del, as He Called It? |
Harold Holzer |
February/March 1998 |
| Unlike Clinton's Rich Guests, Lincoln Never Slept in "The Lincoln Bedroom" |
Harold Holzer |
July/August 1997 |
| The Return of "The Peacemakers," Minus Lincoln |
Harold Holzer |
February/March 1996 |
| The San Patricios |
James Callaghan |
November 1995 |
| The Forgotten Triumph of the Paw Paw |
Richard W. Kaeuper |
October 1995 |
| Who’s Who? |
James G. Barber |
July/August 1995 |
| Westward on the Old Lincoln Highway |
Philip Langdon |
April 1995 |
| How Did Lincoln Die? |
Richard A. R. Fraser, M.d. |
February/March 1995 |
| Abraham Lincoln Again |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
February/March 1995 |
| Clio and the Clintons |
Carl Sferrazza Anthony |
December 1994 |
| Tales of a Gettysburg Guide |
James W. Wensyel |
April 1994 |
| “A Most Abandoned Hypocrite” |
Douglas L. Wilson |
February/March 1994 |
| Dear Mr. Lincoln … |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
February/March 1994 |
| The Destruction of Fighting Joe Hooker |
Gene Smith |
October 1993 |
| Presidents on Presidents |
Thomas Fleming |
November 1992 |
| The Booth Obsession |
Gene Smith |
September 1992 |
| The Conversion of Harry Truman |
William E. Leuchtenburg |
November 1991 |
| John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim |
Richard Sloan |
February/March 1991 |
| “Most Americans Don’t Know What Lincoln Really Represents” |
William E. Leuchtenburg |
December 1990 |
| The Fires of Norfolk |
Ivan Musicant |
March 1990 |
| A War That Never Goes Away |
James M. McPherson |
March 1990 |
| A. Lincoln, Writer |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
September/October 1989 |
| The House at Eighth and Jackson |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
April 1989 |
| How We Got Lincoln |
Peter Andrews |
November 1988 |
| God’s Chosen Instrument |
Stephen W. Sears |
July/August 1988 |
| Lincoln Fiction & Fact |
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. |
December 1987 |
| 101 More Things Every College Graduate Should Know About American History |
John A. Garraty |
December 1987 |
| A Few Parchment Pages Two Hundred Years Later |
Richard B. Morris |
May/June 1987 |
| An Epitaph For Mr. Lincoln |
H. Wayne Morgan |
February/March 1987 |
| I Love Washington |
David McCullough |
April/May 1986 |
| 101 Things Every College Graduate Should Know about American History |
John A. Garraty |
December 1986 |
| History Still Matters |
Bill Moyers |
December 1985 |
| Matters Of Fact |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
August/September 1984 |
| Targets Of Opportunity |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
April/May 1984 |
| Where Have All The Great Men Gone? |
Richard D. Brown |
February/March 1984 |
| “If I Had Another Face, Do You Think I'd Wear This One?” |
Harold Holzer |
February/March 1983 |
| The Plot To Steal Lincoln’s Body |
Peggy Robertson |
April/May 1982 |
| Lincoln’s Life Preserver |
Charles B. Strozier |
February/March 1982 |
| Two Cheers For Optimism |
Robert Bendiner |
December 1982 |
| Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters |
Don E. Fehrenbacher |
February/March 1981 |
| Five Minutes To Freedom |
|
December 1981 |
| The Slaves Freed |
Stephen B. Oates |
December 1980 |
| America: Experiment or Destiny? |
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. |
June 1977 |
| Say Who’s That Tall, Homely Feller In The Stovepipe Hat? |
|
February 1977 |
| Mallet, Chisel, And Curls |
Lee Roderick |
February 1976 |
| Mrs. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper |
Lynne Cheney |
October 1975 |
| Garibaldi And Lincoln |
Herbert Mitgang |
October 1975 |
| Pistols For Two … Coffee For One |
James R. Webb |
February 1975 |
| The Miracle That Saved The Union |
Scarritt Adams |
December 1975 |
| Lincoln As Poet |
|
October 1974 |
| The Lincoln Highway |
Joe McCarthy |
June 1974 |
| The Relief Of Fort Pickens |
James Cooley |
February 1974 |
| As Well As The Art Of Diplomacy, There Are Also The Arts Of Diplomacy |
Virginia Cardwell Purdy |
February 1974 |
| The Vice President Flees |
William C. Davis |
October 1973 |
| Lincoln Saves A Reformer |
Curtis Dahl |
October 1972 |
| “Better For Us To Be Separated” |
Michael Harwood |
December 1972 |
| Another Assassination, Another Widow, Another Embattled Book |
Marion Wefer |
August 1967 |
| An American In Paris |
Stephen Hess |
February 1967 |
| “There I Grew Up” |
William E. Wilson |
October 1966 |
| ASSASSINATION! |
Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. |
April 1965 |
| Journey’s End: 1865 |
Walter Havighurst |
February 1962 |
| Faces From The Past—IV |
Richard M. Ketchum |
October 1961 |
| Lincoln Takes Charge |
Allan Nevins |
October 1960 |
| New York’s Bloodiest Week |
Lawrence Lader |
June 1959 |
| He Did Hold Lincoln’s Hat |
Allan Nevins |
February 1959 |
| Our Two Greatest Presidents |
Clinton Rossiter |
February 1959 |
| Lincoln’s Second Inauguration |
Philip Van Doren Stern |
February 1958 |
| Ghosts In The White House |
Claude M. Fuess |
December 1958 |
| The Unknown Conspirator |
Philip Van Doren Stern |
February 1957 |
| The Controversial Career of Col. Corcoran |
Joseph Connor |
November/December 2024 |
| Bruce Catton Recalls the Emotional 1913 Reunion at Gettysburg |
Bruce Catton |
Fall 2024 |
| Longstreet’s Dramatic Change of Heart |
Elizabeth R. Varon |
|
| Billy the Barber Shaves Lincoln |
Steve Inskeep |
|
| Salmon Chase Saves the Union |
Walter Stahr |
Spring 2024 |
| Did Johnny Come Marching Home With PTSD? |
David O. Stewart |
May 2023 |
| Antietam, America's Bloodiest Day |
Justin Martin |
September 2022 |
| Massacre at Fort Pillow |
Fergus M. Bordewich |
November/December 2021 |
| Wrapped in Glory: Black Troops of the Civil War |
Douglas R. Egerton |
Spring 2021 |
| Juneteenth! |
Bruce Watson |
June 2020 |
| Confederates in Congress: Heritage or Hate? |
Edwin S. Grosvenor |
June 2020 |
| Confederates Honored by the U.S. Army |
Edwin S. Grosvenor | Chase Brush |
June 2020 |
| Congress Fights the Civil War |
Fergus M. Bordewich |
Spring 2020 |
| President Lincoln's Disastrous First Month |
James M. McPherson |
Spring 2020 |
| The Frémonts Open the West |
Steve Inskeep |
Winter 2020 |
| Corruption and Treason in the Buchanan Cabinet |
Michael F. Holt |
February/March 2021 |
| Lincoln's Corrupt War Department |
Stephen B. Oates |
February/March 2021 |
| “Let Us Die to Make Men Free” |
Richard M. Gamble |
Summer 2019 |
| The Importance of Mill Springs |
Jack Hurst |
Winter 2019 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Heart Touched By Fire |
Ronald Collins |
Spring 2019 |
| Lincoln's Boys |
Joshua Zeitz |
Spring 2018 |
| The Struggles of Edwin Stanton |
Walter Stahr |
Fall 2017 |
| Bruce Catton's America |
Edwin S. Grosvenor |
September 2023 |
| Grant Splits Dixie |
Jack Hurst |
Summer 2017 |
| High Stakes at Antietam |
Stephen W. Sears |
Summer 2012 |
| Bruce Catton |
David W. Blight |
Spring 2012 |
| From Civil War to Civil Rights |
Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Summer 2010 |
| Battle of Ball's Bluff |
|
Fall 2011 |
| Cherokee Loyalties |
|
Fall 2011 |
| African Americans In Combat |
|
Fall 2011 |
| About The Civil War |
|
Spring 2011 |
| General Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan |
|
Spring 2011 |
| Baltimore Riot |
|
Spring 2011 |
| Fort Sumter Falls |
|
Spring 2011 |
| Why the Civil War Still Matters |
James M. McPherson |
Spring 2011 |
| In the Defense of the Republic |
James Oliver Horton |
Summer 2010 |
| A Spirit and Power Far Beyond Its Letter |
Harold Holzer |
Summer 2010 |
| The South’s Mighty Gamble On King Cotton |
Gene Dattel |
Summer 2010 |
| A Graceful Exit |
Jay Winik |
Winter 2010 |
| The Last Confederate Prison |
The Editors |
Fall 2010 |
| The First To Secede |
James W. Loewen |
Winter 2011 |
| Three Years with Grant |
Benjamin P. Thomas | Sylvanus Cadwallader |
October 1955 |
| The Blockade That Failed |
Daniel O’flaherty |
August 1955 |
| Lincoln’s Plan For Reconstruction |
James G. Randall | Richard N. Current |
June 1955 |
| If Lincoln Hadn’t Died... |
Eric Foner |
Winter 2009 |
| What Happened At Fort Pillow? |
Andrew S. Ward |
August/September 2005 |
| Trading Up |
John Steele Gordon |
August/September 2005 |
| “Ride With The Devil” |
|
April/May 2005 |
| Bringing Camels to the Southwest in 1855 |
Frederic D. O'Brien |
February/March 2005 |
| General Longstreet and the Lost Cause |
Stephen W. Sears |
February/March 2005 |
| The Best Civil War Books |
Stephen W. Sears |
November/December 2004 |
| The Ten Best Civil War Films |
Bruce Chadwick |
August/September 2004 |
| The Tariff of Abominations |
Frederic D. O'Brien |
November/December 2003 |
| The Blood on the Photo |
|
April/May 2003 |
| The Race Riots in Manhattan in 1863 |
Kevin Baker |
March 2003 |
| Creating the Ultimate Civil War Resource |
Dennis K. Berman |
July/August 2001 |
| Secrets Of The ‘hunley’ |
|
April 2001 |
| Frederick, Maryland: A Civil War Crossroads |
|
September 2000 |
| Alternatives to That Odious Flag? |
Kevin Baker |
July/August 2000 |
| Gettysburg, 1862 |
James M. McPherson |
September 1999 |
| Caning Senator Sumner Nearly to Death in the Senate |
Kevin Baker |
September 1999 |
| War Correspondent |
Nancy Caldwell Sorel |
May/June 1999 |
| Civil War General |
Stephen W. Sears |
May/June 1999 |
| Following Georgia's Antebellum Trail |
|
April 1999 |
| Jillian’s Story |
Richard F. Snow |
February/March 1999 |
| Richmond’s Black Heroes |
The Editors |
September 1998 |
| The Consequences of the Skirmish at Lewis Farm |
Alfred W. Crosby |
July/August 1998 |
| Stonewall Jackson’s Deadly Calm |
Robert K. Krick |
December 1996 |
| The New Civil War |
Richard F. Snow |
October 1996 |
| Civil War Essays |
|
May/June 1996 |
| Civil War Women |
|
May/June 1996 |
| Our Civil War Cd-rom |
Richard F. Snow |
February/March 1996 |
| Editors’ Choice |
|
February/March 1996 |
| A Rebel Remembers |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
November 1995 |
| Lee’s Last Stand |
Frederic D. O'Brien |
October 1995 |
| Screen Rights |
Richard F. Snow |
September 1995 |
| The Selling of Libby Prison |
William B. Meyer |
November 1994 |
| The Warfare State |
Bruce D. Porter |
July/August 1994 |
| Build-down |
T. A. Heppenheimer |
December 1993 |
| Dr. Lauderdale Goes to War |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
December 1993 |
| Hero of the 20th |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
November 1992 |
| Disenthralling Ourselves |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
April 1992 |
| All for the Union |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
May/June 1991 |
| Financial Folklore |
John Steele Gordon |
February/March 1991 |
| The Civil War In Review |
|
May/June 1990 |
| Lee’s Greatest Victory |
Robert K. Krick |
March 1990 |
| The Rock of Chickamauga |
Peter Andrews |
March 1990 |
| A War That Never Goes Away |
James M. McPherson |
March 1990 |
| Paying for the War |
John Steele Gordon |
March 1990 |
| A. Lincoln, Writer |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
September/October 1989 |
| The Civil War’s Greatest Scoop |
James Weeks |
July/August 1989 |
| The Children of Gettysburg |
Elizabeth Daniels |
May/June 1989 |
| The Terrible Price of Freedom |
Stephen W. Sears |
April 1989 |
| The South’s Inner Civil War |
Eric Foner |
March 1989 |
| God’s Chosen Instrument |
Stephen W. Sears |
July/August 1988 |
| “We Will Not Do Duty Any Longer for Seven Dollars per Month” |
Otto Friedrich |
February 1988 |
| The New Sherman Letters |
Joseph H. Ewing |
July/August 1987 |
| Enlisted for Life |
Hiller B. Zobel |
June/July 1986 |
| Longwood: The Untimely Octagon |
Roger G. Kennedy |
October/November 1985 |
| The First News Blackout |
Stephen W. Sears |
June/july 1985 |
| Death March |
|
June/july 1985 |
| Images of Disorder and Early Sorrow |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
February/March 1985 |
| Military Medicine |
|
October/November 1984 |
| A Confederate Odyssey |
Charles C. Hemming |
December 1984 |
| The New View Of Reconstruction |
Eric Foner |
October/November 1983 |
| Painting The Southland |
|
June/july 1983 |
| Hell And The Survivor |
|
October/November 1982 |
| Captain Newcomb And The Frail Sisterhood |
|
June/july 1982 |
| The Best Girl Scout Of The Mall |
Martha Saxton |
June/july 1982 |
| American Characters |
Richard F. Snow |
April/May 1982 |
| Old Ring |
|
April/May 1982 |
| Between The Battles |
|
February/March 1982 |
| A Postage Stamp History Of The U.S. In The Twentieth Century |
Judson Mead |
December 1982 |
| Shadows Of The Storm |
|
June/July 1981 |
| Making History |
Bernard A. Weisberger |
April/May 1981 |
| A Bulwark Against Mighty Woes |
|
February/March 1981 |
| “Rocked in the Cradle of Consternation” |
Reverend Henry M. Turner |
October/November 1980 |
| War Correspondent, 1864: The Sketchbooks Of James E. Taylor |
Oliver Jensen |
August/September 1980 |
| Belle Boyd |
Richard F. Snow |
February/March 1980 |
| The Slaves Freed |
Stephen B. Oates |
December 1980 |
| The Sinister Corps Of William O. Bourne |
|
June/July 1979 |
| A Gallant Company |
|
February/March 1979 |
| Four Brothers In Blue, Or Sunshine And Shadows Of The War Of The Rebellion |
Barbara Klaw |
February/March 1979 |
| Gunboat War At Vicksburg |
Daniel F. Kemp |
August/September 1978 |
| The Day The Civil War Ended |
Bruce Catton |
June/July 1978 |
| From Atlanta To The Sea |
James Royal Ladd |
December 1978 |
| Ethics & Armaments |
Bruce Catton |
August 1977 |
| The Great Locomotive Chase |
Stephen W. Sears |
December 1977 |
| The Siege Of Vicksburg |
Richard Wheeler |
June 1976 |
| Garibaldi And Lincoln |
Herbert Mitgang |
October 1975 |
| The Miracle That Saved The Union |
Scarritt Adams |
December 1975 |
| The Relief Of Fort Pickens |
James Cooley |
February 1974 |
| Surgeon Thompson’s Separate Peace |
Allan L. Damon |
December 1974 |
| Stars And Bars And … Flags That Never Flew |
|
October 1973 |
| The Vice President Flees |
William C. Davis |
October 1973 |
| The Burning Of Chambersburg |
Liva Baker |
August 1973 |
| The End Of The Alabama |
Norman C. Delaney |
April 1972 |
| “We Are Going To Do Away With These Boys …” |
Pete Daniel |
April 1972 |
| “New York Is Worth Twenty Richmonds” |
Nat Brandt |
October 1971 |
| The Old Vets |
Robert Merrill Dewey |
April 1971 |
| Of Noble Warriors And Maidens Chaste |
Irene M. Patten |
April 1971 |
| Asa Smith Leaves The War |
Bruce Catton |
February 1971 |
| The Miracle On Missionary Ridge |
Bruce Catton |
February 1969 |
| The Trial Of John Brown |
Thomas Fleming |
August 1967 |
| “Mother, I Do Not Hate To Die” |
James Cameron Phifer |
February 1967 |
| The Army Of The Cumberland: A Panorama Show By William B. T. Travis |
Bruce Catton |
December 1967 |
| On Writing About The Civil War |
Bruce Catton |
April 1966 |
| Mississippi: The Past That Has Not Died |
Walter Lord |
June 1965 |
| TALE OF A TABLE |
Mary A. Benjamin |
April 1965 |
| A Civil, And Sometimes Uncivil, War |
Bruce Catton |
October 1964 |
| Heritage Of The War |
Bruce Catton |
December 1963 |
| “Bull Run” Russell |
Joseph L. Gardner |
June 1962 |
| Lincoln Takes Charge |
Allan Nevins |
October 1960 |
| The Bloodiest Man In American History |
Albert Castel |
October 1960 |
| “See Those Men! They Have No Flag!” |
|
October 1960 |
| There Was Another South |
Carl N. Degler |
August 1960 |
| Narrative Of An Escape From A Rebel Prison Camp |
Morris C. Foote |
June 1960 |
| A Royal Welcome For The Russian Navy |
Marshall B. Davidson |
June 1960 |
| Grant At Shiloh |
Bruce Catton |
February 1960 |
| New York’s Bloodiest Week |
Lawrence Lader |
June 1959 |
| Crisis At The Antietam |
Bruce Catton |
August 1958 |
| “Tonight For Freedom” |
Saunders Redding |
June 1958 |
| Classmates Divided |
Mary Elizabeth Sergent |
February 1958 |
| Lincoln’s Second Inauguration |
Philip Van Doren Stern |
February 1958 |
| Two Civil War Letters |
|
October 1957 |
| "I Fired The First Gun And Thus Commenced The Great Battle” |
S. Dana Greene |
June 1957 |
| The Peaceable Ambassadors |
Arnold Whitridge |
April 1957 |
| Hayfoot, Strawfoot! |
Bruce Catton |
April 1957 |
| The Needless Conflict |
Allan Nevins |
August 1956 |
| Legend Of The South |
Cornelia Barrett Ligion |
June 1956 |
| The River Houses |
Clarence John Laughlin |
June 1956 |
| What They Did There |
Bruce Catton |
December 1954 |
