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Civil War Book Review is the journal of record for new and newly reprinted books about the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras.

Current Issue: Fall 2026

Editorial

Wounded Soldiers, Internal Turmoil, and the American West

Interview

Interview - The Devil’s Own Purgatory: The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War - Gudmestad, Robert

Reviews

Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers
Joel Criswell

Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy in the Civil War’s Deadliest Battle
Hayden Strittmatter

Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair
Chad Iden

Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867
Jesse Flecha

War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War
Tyler Wilson

Treasure and Empire in the Civil War: The Panama Route, the West and the Campaigns to Control America’s Mineral Wealth
Will Lourcey