Published: 3/2/16CHAMBERS: No God But Gain (2015)By: Thomas H. CoxCategory: Book Reviews No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Chambers. Verso Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1781688076. $27.00. ...
Published: 2/24/16SILVERMAN: Lincoln and the Immigrant (2015)By: Alison Clark EffordCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Immigrant by Jason H. Silverman. Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0809334346. $24.95. As an issue, immigration lends itself to an exegesis of Abraham Lincoln’s pronouncements...
Published: 2/17/16ENGLE (ed.): The War Worth Fighting (2015)By: Krista KinslowCategory: Book Reviews The War Worth Fighting: Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency and Civil War America edited by Stephen D. Engle. University Press of Florida, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813060644. $31.95. The sesquicentennial of the Civil War...
Published: 2/10/16DOWNS & MASUR (eds.): The World the Civil War Made (2015)By: Andrew F. LangCategory: Book Reviews The World the Civil War Made edited by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469624181. $29.95. A brief review such as this...
Published: 2/3/16ALEXANDER: Dawn of Victory (2015)By: Kelly MielkeCategory: Book Reviews Dawn of Victory: Breakthrough at Petersburg, March 25-April 2, 1865 by Edward S. Alexander. Savas Beatie, 2015. Paper, ISBN 978-1611212808. $12.95. There have been generations of attempts to pinpoint when...
Published: 1/27/16THOMPSON: The National Joker (2015)By: Chris MackowskiCategory: Book Reviews The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire by Todd Nathan Thompson. Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 976-0-8093-3422-3. $29.50. Abraham Lincoln’s facility with words allowed him...
Published: 1/20/16MILLER: Empty Sleeves (2015)By: Sarah Handley-CousinsCategory: Book Reviews Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South by Brian Craig Miller. University of Georgia Press, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820343327. $29.95. In the opening pages of Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil...
Published: 1/13/16BEILEIN & HULBERT (eds.): The Civil War Guerrilla (2015)By: Brian D. McKnightCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth edited by Joseph Beilein, Jr., and Matthew C. Hulbert. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813165325. $50.00....
Published: 1/6/16CHICK: The Battle of Petersburg (2015)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 by Sean Michael Chick. Potomac Books, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1612347127. $39.95. The combat east of Petersburg, Virginia, between June 15 and 18, 1864,...
Published: 12/30/15LEWIS: For Slavery and Union (2015)By: Tommy BrownCategory: Book Reviews For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War by Patrick Lewis. University of Kentucky Press, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813160795. $50.00. Abraham Lincoln’s oft-quoted phrase that...
Published: 12/23/15CAUDILL & ASHDOWN: Inventing Custer (2015)By: Jonathan NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Inventing Custer: The Making of An American Legend by Edward Caudill and Paul G. Ashdown. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1442251861. $40.00. In America’s popular consciousness, the name George...
Published: 12/16/15GALLMAN: Defining Duty (2015)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front by J. Matthew Gallman. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1469620992. $45.00. “One...
Published: 12/9/15FETTER-VORM & KELMAN: Battle Lines (2015)By: David SchiefflerCategory: Book Reviews Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman. Hill and Wang, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8090-9474-5. $26.00. Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman’s Battle Lines is the first...
Published: 12/2/15BERENSON: Boston and the Civil War (2014)By: John Patrick RileyCategory: Book Reviews Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution by Barbara Berenson. The History Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1609499495. $14.99. Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution is...
Published: 12/2/15KELLER: The Story of Camp Douglas (2015)By: Angela RiottoCategory: Book Reviews The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison by David L. Keller. The History Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-62619-911-8. $21.99. In his introduction to the 2011 edition of Ovid...
Published: 11/25/15RYAN: Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign (2015)By: Nate BumanCategory: Book Reviews Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign by Thomas J. Ryan. Savas Beatie, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-178-8. $32.95. Intelligence, or the lack thereof, may have played the single-most important...
Published: 11/18/15HESS: The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta (2015)By: Wayne HsiehCategory: Book Reviews The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469622415. $35.00. Earl J. Hess has one of the...
Published: 11/18/15HARDY: The Capitals of the Confederacy (2015)By: Cathy WrightCategory: Book Reviews The Capitals of the Confederacy: A History by Michael C. Hardy. Arcadia Publishing, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626198876. $19.99. Serving as a nation’s capital city is generally a rare honor—but not in...
Published: 11/11/15SMITH: Home Again (2014)By: Kathleen ThompsonCategory: Book Reviews Home Again: A Civil War Novel by Michael Kenneth Smith. CreateSpace, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1499157093. $13.95. A work of historical fiction set during the Civil War, Home Again follows the lives of two young...
Published: 11/11/15RAPAPORT: Tobacco and Smoking Among the Blue and Gray (2014)By: Sean TrainorCategory: Book Reviews Tobacco and Smoking Among the Blue and Gray: The Illustrated History of An American Folk-Art Curiosity—The Civil War Soldier’s Tobacco Pipe by Ben Rapaport. Briar Books Press, 2014. Cloth, $65.00. The...