No event has transformed the United States more fundamentally -- or been studied more exhaustively -- than the
Civil War. In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging discussion of the
vast effort to chronicle the conflict -- an undertaking that began with the remembrances of Civil War veterans
and has become an increasingly prolific field of scholarship. Covering topics from battlefield operations to the
impact of race and gender, this volume is an informative guide through the labyrinth of Civil War literature. The
contributors provide authoritative and interpretive evaluations of the study and explication of the struggle that
has been called the American Iliad.