France in Crisis

By TIMOTHY SMITH, Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

France in Crisis

By Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

Creating the Welfare State in France 1880 1940

By Timothy B. Smith, Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

The Untold Story of Shiloh: the Battle and the Battlefield

By Timothy B. Smith, Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

At the mention of Shiloh, most tend to think of two particularly bloody and crucial days in April 1862. The complete story, however, encompasses much more history than that of the battle itself. Wh...

This Great Battlefield of Shiloh

By Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

Around the turn of the last century, feelings of patriotism, nationalism, and sectional reconciliation swept the United States and led to a nationwide memorialization of American military history i...

The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation

By Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book, represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important? This decade was the perfect time for the...

The Untold Story of Shiloh

By Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

Mississippi in the Civil War

By Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi’s Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. From without, the Union army dismantled the state’s poli...

Champion Hill Decisive Battle for Vicksburg

By Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The May 16, 1863, fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses...

By Timothy B. Smith Ph.D.

In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy—perhaps in all the South—than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi. Major General Henry W. Halleck, commander of...