American Civil War

Brady of Broadway

Thomas J. Brady offers a study of a fashionable photographer who became the great visual recorder of the American Civil War.

Slave into Soldier

Albert E. Cowdrey records the enlistment of runaway slaves by the North during the American Civil War.

Andrew Jackson and the Affair of Mrs Eaton

In producing the complex of events that was to lead the Southern States from Union to Confederacy, Peggy Eaton – aggrieved wife of President Jackson's Secretary of War—played a small, but curiously dramatic, part. 

Blockade Running from Nassau

From 1861-65, writes Richard Drysdale, during the American Civil War, Nassau in the Bahamas thrived on trade with the Confederacy.