New Looks at the Civil War in the West. In this new book from Savas Beatie’s “Emerging Civil War” series, Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris Mackowski have collected forty-seven short papers by thirty ...

An exclusive interview with Chris Wheeler, producer and director of Civil War: The Untold Story. Wheeler discusses why he focused on the Western Theater in the five part series. Aired: 04/29/14 ...

On the Union side, a well-known astronomer became one of the most prominent general officers in the western theater. Ormsby Mitchel had been born in Kentucky but grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, and was ...

Everyone writes about the Eastern Theater, and Gettysburg has become the mecca of Civil War folklore. If there is one battle from the Western Theater like that, it would be Shiloh,” he said.

Our Reviewer: David Marshall has been a high school American history teacher in the Miami-Dade School district for more than three decades. A life-long Civil War enthusiast, David is president of the ...

After the war, he took photographs and stereographs—twinned pictures that create a three-dimensional image when viewed with special goggles—of the American West and Panama. He died of ...