Quinn McPhail
Published: 2/8/23
Gettysburg’s Southern Front (2022)
Thousands of books have been written about the Gettysburg Campaign, yet talented scholars with fresh insights continue to prove the last has not been said about our most studied military...
Published: 2/1/23
I Saw Death Coming (2023)
The process of Reconstruction after the Civil War is one of the most critical, yet ambiguous periods of US history. One of the key reasons why Reconstruction has remained so...
Published: 1/25/23
The Tale Untwisted (2023)
On Saturday, September 13, 1862, a Hoosier private stumbled upon a stray copy of Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 near Frederick, Maryland. The discovery of the “Lost Orders”...
Published: 1/18/23
Ways and Means (2022)
Some have characterized economics as the dismal science. Roger Lowenstein didn’t get that memo. The author of critically acclaimed books on Wall Street and modern financial arrangements, Lowenstein has turned...
Published: 1/11/23
Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell (2022)
James A. Morgan takes readers on a trip around South Carolina’s early Civil War battlefields in the Emerging Civil War Series’ latest offering, Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to...
Published: 1/4/23
Contemners and Serpents (2022)
Contemners and Serpents presents the correspondence of a family who had lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio, served as Presbyterian missionaries in India, but ended up in Georgia, Tennessee, and South...
Published: 12/28/22
“If We are Striking for Pennsylvania” (2022)
Most entries in the Gettysburg Campaign’s extensive bibliography treat the events of July 1, 2, and 3, 1863. Historians have supplied readers with operational studies; accounts that focus on particular...
Published: 12/21/22
C. Vann Woodward (2022)
For anyone who teaches, writes, or reads Southern History, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) stands out as a figure of singular importance. Born to humble origins in the woods of Arkansas,...
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Published: 12/16/22
The Holiday Season During War
How did Americans observe Christmas and the New Year during the Civil War? Illustrated newspapers, like Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s, published many illustrations throughout the conflict that showed readers how their fellow countrymen marked...
Published: 12/14/22
Hidden History of Civil War Florida (2022)
Volumes have been written about major Civil War battles, military and political leaders, and how the sectional conflict impacted civilian life on the northern and southern home front, but Florida...
Published: 12/7/22
A Fire Bell in the Past (2021)
To commemorate the bicentennial of Missouri’s statehood, editors Jeffrey Pasley and John Hammond have assembled a superb collection of essays that address the controversy surrounding the state’s entry into the...
Published: 11/30/22
The Gospel of Freedom (2022)
Black Evangelical churches in Kentucky formed “an organized ‘underground’ black freedom network” (152) that helped to facilitate freedom-seeking fugitives’ escapes into Canada, Ohio, and other anti-slavery regions. In this important...
Published: 11/23/22
The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War (2022)
The Civil War was the first war in U.S. history in which railroads played a significant role transporting troops and martial supplies. In the two decades before the conflict, the...
Published: 11/16/22
An Environmental History of the Civil War (2020)
Building on a growing body of scholarship, authors Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver deliver a stunning synthesis of the Civil War as a “biotic” and “biological event” (4). They illustrate...
Published: 11/9/22
The Last Fire-Eater (2022)
This slender volume took shape as the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History at Louisiana State University. Historian William A. Link, among our most insightful chroniclers of the long...
Published: 11/2/22
Black Suffrage (2022)
Paul Escott’s Black Suffrage focuses on Northern attitudes towards Black rights in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. As most other studies of this subject focus on other time periods...
Published: 10/26/22
Remembering Enslavement (2022)
When asked what characteristics define the regional identity of the U.S. South, many people the world over would point to its plantations. These centers of forced enslavement, brutal working conditions,...
Published: 10/19/22
James Montgomery (2022)
In one of the many memorable scenes in the 1989 film Glory, James Montgomery (played convincingly by actor Cliff De Young) orders Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick)...