WAUGH: Unforgettables (2024)
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In “Unforgettables,” John C. Waugh draws short biographical sketches of the characters who have stood out to him personally during his many decades of study.
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In “Unforgettables,” John C. Waugh draws short biographical sketches of the characters who have stood out to him personally during his many decades of study.
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With “Calamity at Frederick,” Alexander B. Rossino continues assembling a bold new picture of the Maryland Campaign.
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Jack Dempsey has ably edited the wartime letters of an ordinary Michigan family in “When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed.”
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In “The Battle of Little Bighorn,” author Wendy Ann Wallace contends that George Armstrong Custer was sabotaged.
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At 1 p.m. on February 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama. Davis, 52, who had served as U.S. secretary…
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Timothy B. Smith’s “The Iron Dice of Battle” offers a fresh interpretation of the often-overlooked Albert Sidney Johnston.
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The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2023 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War…
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A Constant Reminder to All: Stonewall Jackson, the Lost Cause, and the Making of a West Virginia Idol by Steven Cody Straley. 35th Star Publishing, 2022. Paper, IBSN: 979-8-9865993-5-9. $15.95….
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The contruction of my historiographical self began on a rainy afternoon in fifth grade. There was no chance for outdoor romping, or venturing through the deluge to a friend’s house…
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Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West by William L. Shea. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1640125186. $34.95. William L. Shea is a prolific scholar of…
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DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University Soldiers of the Texas Brigade Putting this series together has been enjoyable but also frustrating. None of the retrospective literature created by soldiers in the…
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Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered by William C. Harris. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-7006-3533-7. $44.95. Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important…
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