TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

The US Army Center of Military History has a number of military history materials available on line, including sections on wars ranging from the Revolutionary War to the Global War on Terror. TOCWOC readers will want to look at the Civil War section, which has a number of the excellent Army “Staff Ride” guides used […]

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NOTE: Hat tip to John Maass at A Student of History blog. John Lynn, Professor of History at my alma mater, the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, has an excellent article up at the National Association of Scholars web site. Professor Lynn has been teaching, researching, and writing about military history for many years longer […]

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I was amused to see Dimitri asking the question, Why on earth would you include an essay on “Lost Cause” historiography in a collection called Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat? I agree. I see several problems with this one. First, could it be because some academic circles (note I said SOME) […]

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