America's Civil War

By Brooks D. Simpson

Think anew, act anew

By Abraham Lincoln

The political education of Henry Adams

By Brooks D. Simpson

In this lively work of revisionism, Brooks D. Simpson offers a new understanding of Henry Adams's political career, looking beyond the oft-quoted Education of Henry Adams to discover the historian,...

The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA 212)

By Brooks D Simpson

The first volume in a four-volume series on the American Civil War—featuring first-hand writings from Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, and moreThis “mesmerizing and dee...

The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA 250)

By Aaron Sheehan Dean

Featuring hundreds of first-hand writings from the American Civil War, this final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865   After 150...

Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA 303)

By Brooks D. Simpson Editor

The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing Few periods in American history are more consequential but less understood th...

Abraham Lincoln the Gettysburg campaign and the war in the East Civil War commander series

By Brooks D. Simpson

George Washington Library of American Biography Series

By Brooks D. Simpson

The Civil War in the East

By Brooks D. Simpson

"Brooks D. Simpson's The Civil War in the East [discusses] the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations that sh...

The Civil War in the East

By Brooks D. Simpson

"Brooks D. Simpson's The Civil War in the East [discusses] the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations that sh...