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“Only Patriots―or Traitors”: Douglas, Logan, and the Secession Crisis in Southern Illinois

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on March 9, 2026

Book Review: Saltgrass Prairie Saga: A German American Family in Texas

by Neil P. Chatelain

Posted on October 7, 2025

Book Review: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life Under Occupation in the Upper South

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on March 14, 2024

Eastman Johnson’s Kite Flying

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on July 5, 2023

Girls & Hometown Gossip: A South Carolinian Marches North, Part 1

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on June 28, 2023

Book Review: Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri

by Meg Groeling

Posted on January 26, 2023

1862 Christmas: “Despite the Present Distress”

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on December 21, 2022

‘Tis the Season…for Slaughtering Hogs?

by Patrick Kelly-Fischer

Posted on December 2, 2022

The Absalom McGee Family: “Our Farm Adjoining Chancellorsville”

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on May 2, 2022