Adam I. P. Smith was born in the Northeast of England. He read History at Oxford before going on to do postgraduate work at Sheffield, Cambridge, and Harvard Universities. He taught at University College London before being appointed Edward Orsborn Professor of US Politics and Political History at Oxford. He is also the Director of the Rothermere American Institute and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. His previous books have included The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics (2017), which won the Jefferson Davis Prize and was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

'Here is a splendid first book to read about Gettysburg. Adam I. P. Smith places the battle within its broader wartime context, clearly narrates its tactical ebb and flow, and, most valuably, assesses its powerful influence on popular understanding of the nation's most disruptive and transformational moment.'

• Introduction 1: The many roads to Gettysburg 2: The Invasion 3: The Tide Turns 4: Aftermath 5: Lincoln at Gettysburg 6: The Lost Cause Founded 7: Northerners and the war to 1913 8: Battlefield and Nation in the twentieth century 9: The never-ending battle

Adam I. P. Smith was born in the Northeast of England. He read History at Oxford before going on to do postgraduate work at Sheffield, Cambridge, and Harvard Universities. He taught at University College London before being appointed Edward Orsborn Professor of US Politics and Political History at Oxford. He is also the Director of the Rothermere American Institute and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. His previous books have included The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics (2017), which won the Jefferson Davis Prize and was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

'Here is a splendid first book to read about Gettysburg. Adam I. P. Smith places the battle within its broader wartime context, clearly narrates its tactical ebb and flow, and, most valuably, assesses its powerful influence on popular understanding of the nation's most disruptive and transformational moment.'

• Introduction 1: The many roads to Gettysburg 2: The Invasion 3: The Tide Turns 4: Aftermath 5: Lincoln at Gettysburg 6: The Lost Cause Founded 7: Northerners and the war to 1913 8: Battlefield and Nation in the twentieth century 9: The never-ending battle