2025 Year in Review: Most-Read Posts of All-Time

Over the last few days, we’ve been counting down the most-read posts that we published in 2025.

Some of you have asked about the most read posts all-time, not just from this year. Here you go:

 

10. “Primary Sources: Slavery as the Cause of the Civil War,” by Chris Mackowski (January 22, 2019)

9. “A History of Civil War Drummer Boys (Part 1),” by Michael Aubrecht (July 27, 2016)

8. “Reactions to Lincoln’s Death,” by Ashley Webb (April 15, 2015)

7. “When a Monument Cherrypicks Its History,” by Chris Mackowski (December 15, 2020)

6. “BREAKING NEWS: Newly Discovered Map Shows Antietam Burials in Detail,” by Chris Mackowski (June 16, 2020)

5. “When a Monument Gets Its History Wrong,” by Chris Mackowski (December 11, 2020)

4. “What To Do With Lt. General A.P. Hill’s Remains?,” by Frank Jastrzembski (June 13, 2020)

3. “Discoveries in a Civil War Photograph,” by Jon-Erik Gilot (October 7, 2020)

2. “What Was So Wrong with Slavery?,” by Steward T. Henderson (April 26, 2019)

Drumroll, please…

1. “Meeting Grant’s Great-Great-Grandson,” by Chris Mackowski (September 1, 2015)