Book Breaks with Adam I. P. Smith on Gettysburg

 

Date & Time: January 18, 2026, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

GettysburgHow did Gettysburg become the most famous battle of the American Civil War? This new book in Oxford University Press’s Great Battles series explains the battle’s place in the Civil War; why two vast armies clashed there; and how, in the century and a half since, it has been re-imagined, re-created, and re-enacted.

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