Book Reviews
The digital home of book reviews and author interviews—and your source of the most up-to-date information on all things Civil War literature
Published: 6/16/21
Civil War Supply and Strategy (2020)
Review of another winning book from a prolific historian of the Civil War.
Published: 6/9/21
Embattled Capital (2021)
A review of a title that's more than your run-of-the-mill guidebook.
Published: 6/2/21
Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station (2021)
An "exhaustively researched" history of a neglected period in 1863.
Published: 5/26/21
The Howling Storm (2020)
Review of a welcome new environmental history of the Civil War.
Published: 5/19/21
Imagining Wild Bill (2020)
A "well-written and accessible study of historical memory."
Published: 5/12/21
Christian Citizens (2020)
An important work about the intersection of religion, race, gender, and 19th-century southern politics.
Published: 5/5/21
Whisperwood (2020)
Review of a novel about the valor and courage of a soldier struggling to survive.
Published: 4/28/21
The Assault on Fort Blakeley (2021)
Review of a new history of one of Alabama's main coastal defenses.
Published: 4/21/21
The Last Slave Ships (2020)
A fascinating study of the demise of the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Published: 4/14/21
What Though the Field Be Lost (2021)
A collection of poems that are "cerebral" and "dense with literary and historical allusions."
Published: 4/7/21
Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton (2021)
An insightful look at the mindset of white southerners in the wake of the Civil War.
Published: 3/31/21
First Chaplain of the Confederacy (2020)
A reminder of the nuanced role Catholics played in the Confederate and Reconstruction South.
Published: 3/24/21
In the Shadow of Gold (2020)
Review of "a historical novel for our own challenging times."
Published: 3/17/21
The Black Civil War Soldier (2021)
A visual history of African-American soldiers in the Civil War.
Published: 3/10/21
Thaddeus Stevens (2021)
An "accessible biography" of "a soldier of the Second American Revolution"
Published: 3/3/21
On Rising Ground (2021)
A well-researched, well-written, and empathetic account of an ordinary soldier and his family.
Published: 2/24/21
Robert E. Lee and Me (2021)
Review of a book that deserves a wide readership.
Published: 2/17/21
Ambitious Honor (2020)
A book that's managed to find something new to say about George Armstrong Custer.