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Published: 11/8/23
A New History of the American South (2023)
A New History of the American South delivers a sweeping synthesis and historiographical review of southern history, from its pre-colonial roots in the Indigenous Americas to the present. Of particular...
Published: 11/1/23
A Constant Reminder to All (2022)
The historian E. Merton Coulter famously quipped that Kentucky “waited until after the war to secede from the Union.” Though neighboring West Virginia “seceded from secession” during the Civil War—adding...
Published: 10/30/23
The Books That Built Me: John Hennessy
The contruction of my historiographical self began on a rainy afternoon in fifth grade. There was no chance for outdoor romping, or venturing through the deluge to a friend’s house...
Published: 10/25/23
July 22 (2023)
Atlanta. Crown jewel of the Confederacy and Gate City into the Deep South. Atlanta. The prize of a four-month red dirt minuet between the relentless advance of three Union armies—100,000...
Published: 10/18/23
Sand, Science, and the Civil War (2023)
It is always refreshing to see a novel approach to a topic as endlessly studied as the Civil War, and this is precisely what Scott Hippensteel has delivered in Sand,...
Published: 10/11/23
Union General (2023)
William L. Shea is a prolific scholar of the U.S. Civil War in the Western and Trans-Mississippi Theaters. He has co-authored, with Earl J. Hess, Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign...
Published: 10/6/23
Lincoln Prize Lecture 2023
On October 26, 2023, The American Civil War Museum (ACWM), in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, will host its first annual Lincoln Prize Lecture, where guests will...
Published: 10/4/23
The Southern Way of Life (2023)
This book is a masterful study. Attempting a single-volume history and analysis of “the concepts that reveal an ongoing southern consciousness” (5) from the colonial period through present day is...
Published: 10/1/23
Published: 9/27/23
Heartsick and Astonished (2023)
Historians have long been interested in the Civil War’s impact on families—particularly how wives transformed into widows and children made fatherless by what occurred on the battlefield mourned, coped, and...
Published: 9/25/23
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 8
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University Soldiers of the Texas Brigade Putting this series together has been enjoyable but also frustrating. None of the retrospective literature created by soldiers in the...
Published: 9/20/23
Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered (2023)
Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important books on virtually every facet of the sixteenth president’s life, ranging from his political ascent (Lincoln’s...
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Published: 9/15/23
Hints to Soldiers
The Soldier in Our Civil War, a multi-volume work about the Civil War published in 1893, showcases many of the illustrations that appeared during the conflict in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. The...
Published: 9/13/23
Consent in the Presence of Force (2023)
Consent in the Presence of Force analyzes “the lives, labors, and legal battles of girls and women whose enslavement was defined by sexual service” (9). Emily A. Owens, currently David and...
Published: 9/6/23
Private No More (2023)
What makes Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry an unusual book? First, letters from a private in an African American regiment are...
Published: 8/30/23
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2023)
Osprey Publishing has long set the standard for handsomely illustrated volumes of military history, and the latest in their growing Civil War series, Timothy J. Orr’s The Battle of Gettysburg:...
Published: 8/25/23
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 7
A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE (1876) In a postwar illustration, Robert E. Lee is depicted leading his men at Gettysburg. Three books containing Robert E. Lee’s testimony provide...
Published: 8/23/23
The Demands of Justice (2023)
The Demands of Justice examines “the lives of enslaved women accused of capital crimes to understand how slavery and its corresponding laws and social customs worked to criminalize them and limit...