Civil War History
(my own personal blog)

Links and Recommended Reading/Viewing

My Personal Sites:
Civil War History

Military History Blog

Frontier Battles

Other Great Links:
Society For Military History

Southern Historical Association

Society of Civil War Historians

The Historical Society

North Dakota State Historical Society

Army Historical Foundation

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Sons of The American Legion

The Patriot Files

Military.com

My Family Tree for Robert Montgomery: My Civil War Ancestor

History News Network

Civil Warriors

PARAMETERS: The US Army War College Quarterly

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

US Regulars Archive
(this site contains various online versions of Civil War tactics and other materials)

Civil Air Patrol

Recommended Reading:

Non-fiction reading:

Historian's Fallacies by David Hackett Fischer

Past Imperfect by Peter Charles Hoffer

Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir by Forrest McDonald

The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth

The Colonial Wars, 1689-1763 by Howard Peckham

Pontiac and the Indian Uprising by Howard Peckham

The Crucible of War by Fred Anderson

The First Way of War by John Grenier

We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young by LTG Harold Moore (USA-Ret.) and Joseph Galloway

Steal My Soldier's Hearts by Col. David Hackworth

Frontier Illinois by Dr. James Davis

More to come soon!

Novels:

Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen

Grant Comes East by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen

Never Call Retreat by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen

Magazines/Journals:

Armchair General, a magazine with articles on military history and wargaming

The Journal of Military History

On Point: The Journal of Army History

Parameters

The Journal of the Historical Society

Civil War History

The Journal of Southern History

North Dakota History

American Historical Review

Journal of American History

Videos/DVDs

Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest

Frontier: Decisive Battles of the Old Northwest

Ken Burn's The Civil War

The War That Made America

Gettysburg

We Were Soldiers

The American Revolution

K-19: The Widowmaker

Northern Lights (one of the best films on the NPL)

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