Quinn McPhail
Published: 10/11/23
SHEA: Union General (2023)
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...
Published: 10/6/23
Lincoln Prize Lecture 2023
On October 26, 2023, The American Civil War Museum (ACWM), in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, will host its first annual Lincoln Prize Lecture, where guests will...
Published: 10/4/23
WILSON: The Southern Way of Life (2023)
The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South by Charles Reagan Wilson. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6498-9. $39.95. This book...
Published: 9/27/23
FREDETTE: Heartsick and Astonished (2023)
Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia by Allison Dorothy Fredette. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820364285. $32.95. Historians have long been interested in the Civil War’s...
Published: 9/20/23
HARRIS: Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered (2023)
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...
Published: 9/15/23
Hints to Soldiers
The Soldier in Our Civil War, a multi-volume work about the Civil War published in 1893, showcases many of the illustrations that appeared during the conflict in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. The...
Published: 9/13/23
OWENS: Consent in the Presence of Force (2023)
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469672137. Consent in the...
Published: 9/6/23
ROGER HEPBURN (ed.): Private No More (2023)
Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry edited by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 9780820363455. $24.95. What...
Published: 8/30/23
ORR: The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2023)
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863: The Second Day by Timothy J. Orr. Illustrated by Steve Noon. Osprey, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1472854640. $25.00. Osprey Publishing has long set the standard for handsomely...
Published: 8/23/23
NUNLEY: The Demands of Justice (2023)
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1469673127. $27.95. The Demands of Justice examines “the...
Published: 8/9/23
GREENIDGE: The Grimkes (2022)
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge. Liveright, 2022. ISBN 978-1-324-09454-8. $32.50. Among the leading African American professionals at the turn of the twentieth century...
Published: 8/2/23
O’NEILL: Small but Important Riots (2023)
Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville by Robert F. O’Neill. Potomac Books, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-64012-547-6. $36.95. By the author’s own admission, Small but Important Riots has been...
Published: 7/26/23
LOVOLL: Colonel Hans Christian Heg (2023)
Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience by Odd S Lovoll. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1681342504. $19.25. Tens of thousands of foreign-born and first- or second-generation immigrants...
Published: 7/19/23
FOWLER: The Grammar of Civil War (2022)
The Grammar of Civil War: A Mexican Case Study, 1857-61 by Will Fowler. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1496230461. $65.00. Will Fowler, currently professor of Latin American studies at the...
Published: 7/11/23
NEWMARK: Without Concealment, Without Compromise (2023)
Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark. Southern Illinois University Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3904-4. $29.95. One might suppose there is nothing...
Published: 7/10/23
Changing Times—And Names—at U.S. Military Bases
As an employee of the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense, I must support the official policies of these organizations, so what I write below represents my own personal...
Published: 7/5/23
WEEKS: Cherokee Civil Warrior (2023)
Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty by W. Dale Weeks. University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0806191577. $32.95. W. Dale Weeks makes clear that...
Published: 6/28/23
WEST: Continental Reckoning (2023)
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion by Elliott West. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 9781496233585. $39.95. How does the birth of the American West relate...