Published: 4/5/12“Life Studies of the Great Army”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays At the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibit of 1876, Edwin Forbes, renowned for his work during the Civil War as a “special artist” for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, displayed a collection of...
Published: 4/4/12STOKER: The Grand Design (2010)By: Lorien FooteCategory: Book Reviews The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald Stoker. Oxford University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0195373057. $27.95. In The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, Donald Stoker...
Published: 4/4/12GALLMAN (ed.): A Tour of Reconstruction (2011)By: Amy Murrell TaylorCategory: Book Reviews A Tour of Reconstruction: Travel Letters of 1875 edited by J. Matthew Gallman. The University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0813134242. $35.00. Anna Dickinson got right to the point during...
Published: 3/28/12INSCOE (ed.): The Civil War in GeorgiaBy: Keith MuchowskiCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion edited by John C. Inscoe. University of Georgia Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0820339814. $22.95. In 1998 leaders of the Georgia Humanities...
Published: 3/21/12FULTON: The Reconstruction of Mark Twain (2010)By: John C. InscoeCategory: Book Reviews The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature by Joe B. Fulton. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807136913. $34.95. As...
Published: 3/14/12HIRSCH & VAN HAFTEN: Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason (2010)By: Brian DirckCategory: Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch & Dan Van Haften. Savas Beatie, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 1932714898. $34.95. Original ideas about Abraham Lincoln are uncommon. Given the ever-growing...
Published: 3/14/12HARRIS: Lincoln and the Border States (2011)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union by William C. Harris. University of Kansas Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 070061804X. $34.95. Hard as it might be to imagine, William C. Harris’s...
Published: 3/7/12MAGNESS & PAGE: Colonization After Emancipation (2011)By: Earl J. HessCategory: Book Reviews Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page. University of Missouri Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0826219098. $34.95. Abraham Lincoln’s persistent interest...
Published: 3/7/12LUBRECHT: New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War (2011)By: Scott ManningCategory: Book Reviews New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War: The Hussars of the Union Army by Peter T. Lubrecht. The History Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1609491327. $19.99. In New Jersey Butterfly Boys, Peter...
Published: 2/29/12WITTENBERG: Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry ActionsBy: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions: Farnsworth’s Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1611210704. $17.95. This is the...
Published: 2/28/12Weird Essay WinnerBy: Frank GrzybCategory: Book Reviews This winning entry was submitted by Mr. Frank Grzyb of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to The Civil War Monitor’s “Weirding the War Essay Contest”—an event held in honor of Weirding the War:...
Published: 2/22/12MARTEN (ed.): Children and Youth During the Civil War Era (2012)By: Catherine M. WrightCategory: Book Reviews Children and Youth During the Civil War Era edited by James Marten. New York University Press, 2012. Paper, ISBN: 0814796087. $25.00. Despite the explosion of social history since the 1970s, few...
Published: 2/21/12BLIGHT: American Oracle (2011)By: David SilkenatCategory: Book Reviews American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight. Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674048555. $27.95. David Blight’s Race and Reunion (2001) established him as...
Published: 2/15/12DAVIS & ROBERTSON (eds.): Virginia at War, 1865By: Michael B. ChessonCategory: Book Reviews Virgina at War, 1865 edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson. University of Kentucky Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0813134684. $40.00. The fifth and final volume of Virginia at War is the...
Published: 2/15/12FARMER-KAISER: Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau (2010)By: Carolyn ChesarinoCategory: Book Reviews Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation by Mary Farmer-Kaiser. Fordham University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0823232115. $80.00. “If women-whippers and negro shooters...
Published: 2/8/12MARSHALL: Creating a Confederate Kentucky (2010)By: Anne Sarah RubinCategory: Book Reviews Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne E. Marshall. University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 080783436X. $35.00. Nowhere is...
Published: 2/8/12ABRUZZO: Polemical Pain (2011)By: James Hill Welborn IIICategory: Book Reviews Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism by Margaret Abruzzo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0801898528. $55.00. Long before Americans, North and South, commenced to shooting...
Published: 2/1/12WILSON: The Business of Civil War (2010)By: Brooks D. SimpsonCategory: Book Reviews The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 by Mark R. Wilson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Paper, ISBN: 080189820X. $25.00. At its core, Mark R. Wilson’s volume...
Published: 1/25/12GINGRICH (et al): The Battle of the Crater: A NovelBy: Craig A. WarrenCategory: Book Reviews The Battle of the Crater: A Novel by Newt Gingrich, Williiam R. Forstchen, and Albert S. Hanser. Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0312607105. $27.99. In recent months, Republican presidential candidate...
Published: 1/18/12BROWN (ed.): Remixing the Civil WarBy: Nina SilberCategory: Book Reviews Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial edited by Thomas J. Brown. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1421402505. $50.00. Who could have anticipated that, by the early...