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Published: 5/14/14
MARTEN: America’s Corporal (2014)
America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace by James Marten. University of Georgia Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 0820343218. $24.95. The cover blurb for America’s Corporal describes the book’s subject, James Tanner, as...
Published: 5/9/14
An Interview with Nicholas Marshall
Our conversation with Nicholas Marshall, an associate professor of history at Marist College and recent author of “The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War,” featured in the March issue...
Published: 5/7/14
MACKOWSKI & WHITE: Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front (2013)
Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 1611211360. $32.95. In Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front,...
Published: 5/7/14
DAVIS & GREENWALT: Bloody Autumn (2014)
Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt. Savas Beatie, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211654. $12.95. Although historians still need to reserve judgment on...
Published: 5/5/14
What Should Historians Make of “Black Confederates?”
Library of Congress The topic of so-called “Black Confederates” is controversial. Some insist that Confederate nationalism motivated thousands of African Americans to fight alongside their masters, proving that slavery did...Published: 5/2/14
An Interview with Shauna Devine
Our conversation with Shauna Devine, Visiting Research Fellow in the department of the history of medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University and author of “Learning...
Published: 4/30/14
WOODWARD: Marching Masters (2014)
Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War by Colin Edward Woodward. University of Virginia Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 9780813935416. $39.50. The most controversial aspect of the...
Published: 4/23/14
BLIGHT (ed.): My Bondage and My Freedom (2014)
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass and edited by David W. Blight. Yale University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 030019059X. $13.00. The public domain is a rich and growing trove...
Published: 4/23/14
LUEBKE (ed.): The Story of a Thousand (2011)
The Story of a Thousand, Being a History of the Service of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union, from August 21, 1862, to June 6,...Published: 4/18/14
An Interview with Michael Adams
Our conversation with Michael Adams, the Regents Professor of History Emeritus at Northern Kentucky University and author of “Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War,” now out with...Published: 4/15/14
An Interview with Michael Frost Beckner
Our conversation with Michael Frost Beckner, the creator, writer, and executive producer of “To Appomattox,” an exciting new miniseries event. In this interview, Beckner details the history of this project...Published: 4/4/14
An Interview with CWI’s Jill Titus
Our conversation with Jill Titus, the Associate Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. In this interview, Dr. Titus discusses the plans for the 2014 CWI which centers...
Published: 4/2/14
DAL LAGO: William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini (2013)
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform by Enrico Dal Lago. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. ISBN: 0807152064. $42.50. Enrico Dal Lago’s oeuvre demonstrates his breadth of...Published: 4/1/14
An Interview with Chris Wheeler
Our conversation with Chris Wheeler, the writer, producer, and director of “Civil War: The Untold Story,” a new five part mini series premiering on PBS nationwide in April 2014. In...Published: 3/28/14
An Interview with James Marten
Our conversation with James Marten, chair of the History Department at Marquette University and author of “The Ubiquitous Mr. Tanner,” an article published in the spring 2014 issue of The...
Published: 3/26/14
KREISER: Defeating Lee (2011)
Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Indiana University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0253356164. $34.95. From the slaughter in the West...
Published: 3/24/14
The Death of Jim Jackson and the Oxymoron of “Postbellum” Missouri, 1865-1866
In June 1865, Jim Jackson—one of Missouri’s more notorious Confederate guerrilla commanders—made haste for the Illinois line. The Confederate experiment to which Jackson belonged had recently ended in disaster. On...
Published: 3/19/14
ADAMS: Living Hell (2014)
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War by Michael C.C. Adams. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1421412217. $29.95. There is undoubtedly a turn toward the ‘dark side’...