While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War.
A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays.
Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "e;technological life.
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains.
An in-depth look at of a vitally important but little-known heavy artillery regiment of the Civil War In early 1864, many heavy artillery regiments in the Civil War were garrisoning the Washington defenses, including the Fifteenth New York.
American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental army administration.
American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental army administration.
Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population in Nazi-occupied Europe.
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains.
The central problem is to explain what combination of historical, strategic, political, and domestic factors transformed the Russo-Ukrainian relationship from the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the crisis under examination.
The Silver Star-awarded marine chronicles his service in Iraq in this "e;transcendent memoir of military service and its personal consequences"e; (Ralph Peters, Lt.
In the United States, Holocaust education is common practice in classrooms, thanks largely to concerted efforts by Holocaust survivors and the institutions they helped establish.
There are few moments in life more sacred, more sobering, and more significant than when we gather to say farewell to someone who has crossed the threshold from time into eternity.
Exploring neglected and misinterpreted aspects of a pivotal point in the Civil WarMilitary operations in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were a significant part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, but they have been overshadowed by what occurred in the wilderness of Spotsylvania County, where Robert E.
