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Muskets and Springfields Review	6	09 Jul 2023 3:10 p.m. PST
Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives	5	03 Jul 2023 3:15 p.m. PST
Decisions at Shiloh: The Twenty-Two Critical...	3	27 Jun 2023 3:31 p.m. PST
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What if the South won the ACW?	62	15 May 2023 1:03 p.m. PST
1619 rightly understood	10	14 May 2023 11:23 a.m. PST
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Story of the Thirty Third NY VOL	3	27 Mar 2023 3:09 p.m. PST
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The Swamp Angels: A History of Spaights 11th Battalion	3	08 Mar 2023 3:30 p.m. PST
Paddy Griffith: ACW Book: Empire Interactive	8	07 Mar 2023 3:19 p.m. PST
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Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance...	11	05 Mar 2023 8:50 a.m. PST
Civil War History - Lionheart Films	2	03 Mar 2023 5:04 a.m. PST
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland	4	22 Feb 2023 4:27 p.m. PST
Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War	4	12 Feb 2023 10:31 a.m. PST
Allan Nevins	28	05 Feb 2023 8:26 a.m. PST
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West Point to Remove Confederate Monuments	106	30 Dec 2022 8:20 p.m. PST
Best movies set during the Civil War	32	29 Dec 2022 11:23 a.m. PST
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant	4	24 Nov 2022 3:54 p.m. PST
Desertion in the Confederate Army:	5	20 Nov 2022 3:55 p.m. PST
Union Success in the Civil War and Lessons for	3	18 Nov 2022 4:12 p.m. PST
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James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The	5	30 Oct 2022 4:11 p.m. PST
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Book: Alan Guelzo’s Robert E Lee: a Life	7	27 Sep 2022 12:08 p.m. PST
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Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern	3	23 Sep 2022 4:32 p.m. PST
films to teach the war	37	20 Sep 2022 12:37 p.m. PST
Cycloramas	6	15 Sep 2022 3:43 p.m. PST
Unhonored Service: The Life of Lee's Senior Cavalry	2	14 Aug 2022 4:47 p.m. PST
Tuesday with a Scholar	9	17 Jul 2022 6:29 p.m. PST
Leaving Gettysburg	1	11 Jul 2022 9:12 p.m. PST
159th Anniversary of Gettysburg...Live!	6	02 Jul 2022 5:34 p.m. PST
Staff Ride Handbook for the Overland Campaign, Virginia,	4	09 Jun 2022 2:58 p.m. PST
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Book Review: Decisions at Antietam: The Fourteen Critical	3	28 May 2022 3:12 p.m. PST
A Teacher's Guide to Civil War Movies	32	16 May 2022 11:47 a.m. PST
Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central	5	12 May 2022 3:45 p.m. PST
Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the	7	03 May 2022 11:24 p.m. PST
US–Dakota War of 1862	5	22 Mar 2022 12:31 p.m. PST
Civil War Symposium - Terrible Swift Sword - 1862	1	16 Mar 2022 4:56 p.m. PST
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The Cinematic Lost Cause	20	09 Mar 2022 3:02 p.m. PST
1864 in numbers	8	08 Feb 2022 3:51 p.m. PST
Day Two of the Gettysburg Battle	1	19 Jan 2022 3:18 p.m. PST
Robert E Lee by Allen Guelzo	4	06 Jan 2022 7:00 p.m. PST
Unusual book resource for terrain	18	24 Dec 2021 4:35 a.m. PST
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USCT Monuments	8	23 Nov 2021 11:48 a.m. PST
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Presentation: Confederate Flags	2	28 Oct 2021 11:06 a.m. PST
The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians	10	24 Oct 2021 4:20 a.m. PST
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Manual for Engineer Troops	5	10 Oct 2021 7:24 p.m. PST
Spielberg is filming movie on Grant.	24	16 Aug 2021 5:24 p.m. PST
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Battle of Nashville -THEN and NOW	7	24 May 2021 3:57 p.m. PST
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Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and...	6	07 May 2021 7:31 a.m. PST
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Civil War–era sketches by David Stauffer	5	16 Apr 2021 4:12 p.m. PST
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Third War Irregular Warfare on the Western Border 1862–1865	3	21 Jan 2021 12:19 p.m. PST
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On the Plains in ’65: The 6th West Virginia Volunteer	3	09 Jan 2021 12:09 p.m. PST