Bruce Tap is an independent historian who is the author of "Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War", which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. He has also published in "Civil War History", "Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association", "Illinois Historical Journal", and "American Nineteenth Century History".Bruce Tap is an independent historian who is the author of "Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War", which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. He has also published in "Civil War History", "Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association", "Illinois Historical Journal", and "American Nineteenth Century History"....more