Howard Zinn's polemical history of the United States is distorted, manipulative, and dishonest.

Does U.S. Grant deserve his sordid reputation?

A review of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, by James Oakes

A review of Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Allen C. Guelzo and This Great Struggle: America's Civil War, by Steven E. Woodworth

A review of The Union War, by Gary W. Gallagher