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Published: 6/7/23
TOWLE: African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom (2022)
African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Ashley Towle. Lexington Books, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1666905717. $95.00. With this book, Ashley...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/919ZjRlFMVL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/31/23
MARTIN: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge (2022)
From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War by Brian Martin. ECW Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-77041-638-3. $19.95. Josiah Henson, believed by many to be the inspiration for...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/91L28DbEYoL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/24/23
HARMAN: All Roads Led to Gettysburg (2022)
All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign by Troy D. Harman. Stackpole Books, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0811770637. $29.95. Nearly two decades after the release...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1.-ellsworth-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/24/23
Elmer Ellsworth’s Civil War
On May 24, 1861, 24-year-old Elmer E. Ellsworth—colonel of the 11th New York Infantry—was shot and killed by the pro-secessionist proprietor of the Marshall House, an inn located in Alexandria,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/B0BJSYNZL2.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg)
Published: 5/17/23
HOOPER: Delivered Under Fire (2023)
Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail by Candice Shy Hooper. Potomac Books, 2023. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781640124486. $36.95. After the excitement of enlisting had faded, and the newness of soldiering had evolved...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71b0cSItBOL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/9/23
CIMPRICH: Navigating Liberty (2022)
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich. Louisiana State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-08071777990. $45.00. Published to great fanfare in 1964, Rehearsals for...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/41PCm1n1uaL.jpg)
Published: 5/3/23
PRIDE: Storm Over Key West (2020)
Storm Over Key West: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom by Mike Pride. Pineapple Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1683340935. $26.95. Florida often receives scant coverage from Civil War scholars, but...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81w8d288NYL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 4/25/23
MAXFIELD: Man of Fire (2023)
Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War by Derek D. Maxfield. Savas Beatie, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-599-1. $16.95. Derek D. Maxfield’s Man of Fire is the latest entry in Savas...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81CqT3YLHVL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 4/19/23
HAUMESSER: The Democratic Collapse (2022)
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469671437. $27.95. Lauren Haumesser’s excellent book...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71cDnBnmsuL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 4/12/23
MacKENZIE: The Fifth Border State (2023)
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829-1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie. West Virginia University Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1952271717. $29.99. Three decades after the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/51PhtoxjLiL.jpg)
Published: 4/5/23
SMITH: Young America (2022)
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism Before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith. University of Virginia Press, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813948539. $49.50. There is a common narrative that America’s two-party system,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81pmElhyBEL-1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/29/23
LONGACRE: Unsung Hero of Gettysburg (2021)
Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg by Edward G. Longacre. Potomac Books, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1640124295. $34.95. When it comes to cavalry commanders at the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81qg7N4mw6L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/22/23
KENT: Lincoln: The Fire of Genius (2022)
Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America by David J. Kent. Lyons Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1493063833. $29.95. Plenty of people who...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/713LknbZPZL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/15/23
TROTTI: The End of Public Execution (2022)
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion & Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4696-7040-9. $32.95. One of the most...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/61Q6bJTUATL-500x600.jpg)
Published: 3/8/23
ROTHERA: Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas (2022)
Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880 by Evan C. Rothera. Louisiana State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 9780807171479. $50.00. Scholars of the U.S....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/615Z93jhKsL._SX430_BO1204203200_-1-432x600.jpg)
Published: 3/2/23
CHERVINSKY & COSTELLO (eds.): Mourning the Presidents (2023)
Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture edited by Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Matthew R. Costello. University of Virginia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8139-4929-1. $29.50. In this accessible and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81dDF5ZTQFL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 2/23/23
ROSSINO: Their Maryland (2021)
Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862 by Alexander B. Rossino. Savas Beatie, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611215571. $32.95. By late September 1862, the soldiers...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81v-uOBCzKL-1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 2/22/23
KRETZ: Administering Freedom (2022)
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau by Dale Kretz. The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469671024. $39.95. Administering Freedom opens by recalling William Baltimore’s interview...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/union-forever-500x600.jpg)