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War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War

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A history of the United States’ greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War

Winner of the 2024 Tom Watson Brown Book Award • Shortlisted for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize


The Civil War generated a vast archive of official records—documents that would shape the postwar era and determine what future generations would know about the war. Yael Sternhell traces these records from their creation during wartime through their deployment in a host of po...