Published: 3/17/14Reconsidering the “Myth” of the Black Union SoldierBy: Kevin LevineCategory: The Front Line It’s hard to believe that 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the Hollywood movie Glory. Twenty-five years later it is also difficult to remember that for many...
Published: 3/12/14LIVELY: Calamity at Chancellorsville (2013)By: Thaddeus M. RomanskyCategory: Book Reviews Calamity at Chancellorsville: The Wounding and Death of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson by Mathew W. Lively. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211387. $27.50. Calamity at Chancellorsville delves into the series of...
Published: 3/12/14GLEESON: The Green and the Gray (2013)By: Brian P. LuskeyCategory: Book Reviews The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America by David T. Gleeson. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1469607565. $35.00. This interesting new book...
Published: 3/7/14An Interview with Susannah J. UralBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Susannah J. Ural, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and recent author of “Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War...
Published: 2/26/14ASH: The Black Experience in the Civil War South (2013)By: Rachel A. SheldenCategory: Book Reviews The Black Experience in the Civil War South by Stephen V. Ash. Potomac Books, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1612346294. $17.95. Stephen V. Ash’s The Black Experience in the Civil War South is a terrific introduction for...
Published: 2/19/14EARLE & BURKE (eds.): Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri (2013)By: Kenneth W. NoeCategory: Book Reviews Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border edited by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke. University Press of Kansas, 2013. Paper. ISBN: 0700619291. $19.95. July 2013 brought...
Published: 2/12/14SIMPSON: The Civil War in the East (2013)By: Elizabeth R. VaronCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War in the East: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory by Brooks D. Simpson. Potomac Books, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1612346286. $19.95. Scholars, students, and teachers should hail the appearance of Brooks...
Published: 2/10/14The Civil War on the Great LakesBy: John GradyCategory: The Front Line When President Jefferson Davis refused to sanction a plot to take the American Civil War to the Great Lakes in the winter of 1863, Confederate Navy Lieutenant Robert D. Minor...
Published: 2/7/14An Interview with Jaime MartinezBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Jaime Martinez, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and author of “Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South,” now out...
Published: 2/5/14McDANIEL: The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery (2013)By: Ian DelahantyCategory: Book Reviews The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists & Transatlantic Reform by W. Caleb McDaniel. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0807150185. $48.00. At first glance, Garrisonian...
Published: 1/31/14An Interview with Megan Kate Nelson and Kevin LevinBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Megan Kate Nelson (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Brown University) and Kevin Levin (Instructor, Gann Academy) on their most recent project—co-editing a special issue of Common-Place entitled...
Published: 1/29/14LAUSE: Price’s Lost Campaign (2011)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Price’s Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri by Mark A. Lause. University of Missouri Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0826219497. $29.95. If the devil is truly in the details, Old Scratch...
Published: 1/24/14An Interview with Rachel SheldenBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Rachel Shelden, an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia College and State University and author of “Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil...
Published: 1/15/14THOMSON (ed.): We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die (2013)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die: The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard, edited by David K. Thomson. University of Tennessee Press, 2013. Cloth,...
Published: 1/14/14CONROY: Our One Common Country (2014)By: Harold HolzerCategory: Book Reviews Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 by James B. Conroy. Lyons Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 0762778075. $27.95. I suppose that it’s rare to...
Published: 1/8/14BORCHARD: Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley (2011)By: Matthew IshamCategory: Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley by Gregory A. Borchard. Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0809330458. $19.95. Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley is an installment in Southern Illinois University’s Concise...
Published: 1/8/14HOLZER & GABBARD (eds.): 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year (2013)By: Keith AltavillaCategory: Book Reviews 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard. Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0809332469. $32.95. The year 1863 was pivotal to the American Civil War,...
Published: 1/1/14HESS: The Knoxville Campaign (2012)By: Lawrence Kreiser, Jr.Category: Book Reviews The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee by Earl J. Hess. University of Tennessee Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1572339950. $29.95. The Confederate offensive to capture the Union-held city of...
Published: 1/1/14WITTENBERG: Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg (2013)By: Scott ManningCategory: Book Reviews Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles of Brinkerhoff’s Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1611210941. $16.95. Clausewitz tells us...
Published: 12/25/13FINSETH (ed.):The American Civil War (2013)By: James Hill Welborn IIICategory: Book Reviews The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology, Second Edition, edited by Ian Frederick Finseth. Routledge, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 041553707X. $54.95. Anthologies of the American Civil War frequently lose...