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Angela M. Zombek, Ph.D., “Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War” (Kent, OH: Kent State University…

Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute illuminates some little-known history of the Shenandoah Valley with the release of volume two of its Journal of the…

“Reconstruction: A Concise History” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). $18.95 hardcover, www.oup.com. For decades Eric Foner’s “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution” stood as the standard…

18th Connecticut Ribbon Among the artifacts added to the exhibition in the Lodge at Cool Spring is a ribbon for the 18th Connecticut Infantry’s reunion…

WINCHESTER, VA – Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute will host the 154th-anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Cool Spring on Saturday, July 14, from…

Shortly after Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute was established, William W. Layton donated a number of documents to the university’s McCormick Civil War Institute.…

“To Emancipate the Mind and Soul: Storer College, 1867-1955” (Harpers Ferry, WV: Harpers Ferry Park Association, 2017). $14.95 softcover, www.harpersferryhistory.org    While historians have penned…

Shenandoah University McCormick Civil War Institute will host its annual spring conference, “Another Era in Our War Life: When the Home Front Became the Battle…

While driving on I-83 in Baltimore, Maryland, one massive, legendary eyewitness to the Civil War rises prominently into the sky and is visible from miles…

Richard A. Sauers, comp., “The National Tribune Civil War Index” 3 vols. (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2017). $139.95 hardcover, www.savasbeatie.com.   At the…