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The WWII Generation and the Civil War
The Scholarship of Peter Carmichael
Robert E. Lee in History and Memory
The Importance of Printed Materials for the Civil War Soldier
Poor Whites in the Confederacy
Interpreting Civil War History for the Public
Gettysburg Documents and the National Archives
The Army of the Potomac
Interpretations of Civil War Sites
Gettysburg in History and Memory
Prince Rivers and the Problem of Black Masculinity
James Longstreet's Transition From Confederate General to Republican Politician
Archaeological Discoveries at Little Round Top
Lincoln's Triumph: Mister Lincoln Lecture Series
The Mind of Abraham Lincoln: Mister Lincoln Lecture Series
The Uncertain President: Mister Lincoln Lecture Series
Young Man Lincoln: Mister Lincoln Lecture SeriesThe WWII Generation and the Civil WarThe Scholarship of Peter CarmichaelRobert E. Lee in History and MemoryThe Importance of Printed Materials for the Civil War SoldierPoor Whites in the ConfederacyInterpreting Civil War History for the PublicGettysburg Documents and the National ArchivesThe Army of the PotomacInterpretations of Civil War SitesGettysburg in History and MemoryPrince Rivers and the Problem of Black MasculinityJames Longstreet's Transition From Confederate General to Republican PoliticianArchaeological Discoveries at Little Round Top
The 16th Connecticut's Final Year of War
The 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Lincoln Lyceum Lecture
Abraham Lincoln and Race
Abraham Lincoln and the American Military Tradition
African-Americans in the Confederate Army
African-American Soldiers in the Union Army
Anatomy of the Lost Cause
Archaeology of Camp Life, Civil War Institute
Artifacts of the Civil War, Civil War Institute
Barksdale's Assault: Civil War Institute
Battle of Antietam (2006)
Battle of Antietam (2021)
The Battle of the Crater, Civil War Institute
Battle Cry of Freedom
Black Americans and the End of Slavery
The Bloody Work at the Field Hospital, Civil War Institute
The Boy General, Francis C. Barlow's Civil War: Civil War Institute
Boy Soldiers in the Civil War
The Brown's Island Explosion of 1863, Civil War Institute
The Burning of Chambersburg
Buying and Selling the Civil War, Civil War Institute
Cavalry Operations during the Gettysburg Campaign
Civil War and Reconstruction in the Far West
Civil War Cavalry
Civil War Medicine
The Civil War P.O.W Story
Civil War Wounds
Civilian Experiences during the Battle of Gettysburg: Civil War Institute
Classic Books of the Civil War
The Confederate Flag, Civil War Institute
The Confederate Hospital: Civil War Institute
Confederate Starvation Parties
Conversation with James Robertson: Civil War Institute
Custer and the Cavalry at Gettysburg
Debating Emancipation
Debating Joseph Johnston
The Demobilization of Lee's Army, Civil War Institute
Eisenhower and Civil War Legacies
The Emergence of Ulysses S. Grant
Escaping Confederate Prisons: The Journey of Union POWs, Civil War Institute
Ethnic Soldiers in the Civil War
The Execution of Stonewall Jackson's Foot Soldiers
Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
Exploring the Environmental History of the Civil War
George Gordon Meade, Civil War Institute
"The Gray Ghost" John Singleton Mosby
The Guerrilla War in 1864
Harriet Tubman and the Road to Freedom
Henry Halleck, Civil War Institute
The Hicksford Raid
The Hidden History of the Civil War
Internationalizing the War, Civil War Institute
Interview with Jeffry Wert
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, Civil War Institute
John Bell Hoods Tennessee Campaign
John Pope and the Massacre of the Sioux
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Repeats Appomattox
The Language of the Common Soldier, Civil War Institute
Leadership in the Army of Tennessee
Lee and His Lieutenants
Licensed Battlefield Guides
Lincoln and His Generals
Lincoln and the Press
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Looking at the Dead at Antietam
The Lumbee Tribe and the Civil War
Meade at Gettysburg (2018)
Meade at Gettysburg (2021)
Meade's Pipe Creek Line
Medical History of Joshua Chamberlain and Stonewall Jackson
Medical Impact of the Civil War
Memorializing Gettysburg's Civil War Centennial, Civil War Institute
Mercenary Soldiers
Missouri Artist George Caleb Bingham and the Civil War
The Myth of a Lost Moment during Reconstruction
Myths and Realities of Civil War Battle Tactics, Civil War Institute
Negotiating Midwestern Loyalty, Students & Soldiers
One President, Two Generals: Lincoln, McClellan, and Grant
The Peninsula Campaign and Black Confederates
The Philadelphia Gentleman, George Gordon Meade: Civil War Institute
Pornography, U.S. Soldiers, and the Civil War