Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

A.J. Schenkman’s plate always seems to be full. Not only is he a seventh-grade social studies teacher at John G. Borden Middle School in the Wallkill School District, he’s also one of Ulster County’s ...

Students of the American Civil War will be familiar ... yet this bloodless attack would trigger a war that killed more Americans than any other conflict in the nation’s history.” (p. 463) I've read a ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...

Each of the essays is by a noted scholar of the Civil War, such as Timothy B. Smith, Ethan S. Rafuse, Joseph E. Glathaar, and Craig L. Symonds. These papers help reveal the different ways in which ...