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Published: 10/8/15
Embattled Banner: A Conversation with Tony Horwitz
tonyhorwitz.com Author Tony Horwitz To help make sense of the recent developments regarding the Confederate battle flag, we sat down with Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-1_6.jpeg)
Published: 10/7/15
CHANDLER: The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia (2015)
The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia by Ray Chandler. The History Press, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626193444. $19.99. One might not think of northeast Georgia as an ideal...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brian_3.png)
Published: 10/2/15
How did Civil War women deal with the loss of their husbands?
Angela Elder discusses how widows dealt with the loss of their husbands during and after the Civil War.![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown_12.jpeg)
Published: 9/30/15
DOWNS: After Appomattox (2015)
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory P. Downs. Harvard University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0674743984. $32.95. When exactly did the Civil War end? This seemingly...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51CxXGfESgL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 9/23/15
MYERS: Rebels Against the Confederacy (2014)
Rebels Against the Confederacy: North Carolina’s Unionists by Barton A. Myers. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1107075245. $90.00. Barton Myers’s new study of North Carolina’s unionists during the Civil...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brian_4.png)
Published: 9/18/15
Would there have been a debate over the Confederate flag 100 years ago?
Our conversation with Dr. Karen Cox, Professor of History at UNC-Charlotte, about whether or not there would have been a debate over the Confederate flag 100 years ago. To learn...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51ZMgFKRDWL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 9/16/15
HUSTON: The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer (2015)
The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America by James L. Huston. Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807159187. $47.50....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pe-doa_2-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/15/15
The Dead of Antietam
“Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown_11.jpeg)
Published: 9/9/15
HESS: Civil War Infantry Tactics (2015)
Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness by Earl J. Hess. Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN 978-0807159378. $45.00. Of all the Union generals of the Civil...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51UP85EHUeL._SY344_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 9/2/15
SOLONICK: Engineering Victory (2015)
Engineering Victory: The Union Siege of Vicksburg by Justin Solonick. Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3391-2. $37.50. On July 4, 1863, after enduring a 47-day siege, Confederate forces under...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-13.jpeg)
Published: 8/26/15
CONANT (ed.): The Gettysburg Address (2015)
The Gettysburg Address: Perspectives on Lincoln’s Greatest Speech edited by Sean Conant. Oxford University Press, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-0190227456. $24.95. Sean Conant has amassed an impressive array of contributors for...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51UqWC22DeL._SX310_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 8/26/15
SZASZ: Lincoln and Religion (2014)
Lincoln and Religion by Ferenc Morton Szasz with Margaret Connell Szasz. Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0809333219. $24.95. A perennial question about Abraham Lincoln is the nature of his...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51oIMngOhUL-1._SX307_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 8/19/15
DEAN: An Agrarian Republic (2015)
An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era by Adam Wesley Dean. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469619910. $29.95. Adam Wesley...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-10.jpeg)
Published: 8/12/15
DAVIS: Crucible of Command (2015)
Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—The War They Fought, The Peace They Forged by William C. Davis. Da Capo Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0306822452. $32.50. The...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Unknown-11.jpeg)
Published: 8/5/15
HOOD (ed.): The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood (2015)
The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood edited by Stephen M. Hood. Savas Beatie, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-182-5. $32.95. In 2012, author Stephen M. Hood revealed the existence...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-8.jpeg)
Published: 7/25/15
MASUR: Lincoln’s Last Speech (2015)
Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion by Louis P. Masur. Oxford University Press, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0190218393. $24.95. It has long been observed that scholarly works...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-7_1.jpeg)
Published: 7/22/15
SUDEROW & HOUSE: The Battle of Pilot Knob (2014)
The Battle of Pilot Knob: Thunder in Arcadia Valley by Bryce A. Suderow and R. Scott House. Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0990353027. $20.00. The lovely Arcadia...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Jordan_01-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/10/15
An Interview with Brian Matthew Jordan
Our conversation with Brian Matthew Jordan, a Lecturer at Gettysburg College and recent author of “Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War,” published by W.W. Norton. In this...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-5_2.jpeg)