Book Reviews
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Published: 1/7/15
RAFUSE: Manassas (2014)
Manassas: A Battlefield Guide by Ethan S. Rafuse. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0803236431. $21.95. Ethan S. Rafuse’s Manassas: A Battlefield Guide is a latest volume in the University of Nebraska...
Published: 1/7/15
GWYNNE: Rebel Yell (2014)
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne. Scribner, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1451673289. $35.00. Let me get right to the point: very few readers of The Civil War...
Published: 12/31/14
WILLIAMS: Prudence Crandall’s Legacy (2014)
Prudence Crandall’s Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education by Donald E. Williams, Jr. Wesleyan University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0819574701. $35.00. Donald E....
Published: 12/31/14
WARSHAUER (ed.): Inside Connecticut and the Civil War (2014)
Inside Connecticut and the Civil War: Essays on One State’s Struggles edited by Matthew Warshauer. Wesleyan University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-81957396-4. $27.95. In his brisk introduction, editor Matthew Warshauer applauds...
Published: 12/24/14
WHITE: Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale (2013)
Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863 by William Lee White. Savas Beatie, 2013. Paper, IBSN: 978-1611211580. $12.95 The Battle of Chickamauga ranks as the second...
Published: 12/24/14
DAVIS: Music Along the Rapidan (2014)
Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia by James A. Davis. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0803245099. $45.00. In the course of...
Published: 12/17/14
MOORE & MOORE: Collaborators for Emancipation (2014)
Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy by William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore. University of Illinois Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0252038464. $38.00. For a man with melancholic tendencies,...
Published: 12/10/14
GLEESON & LEWIS (eds.): The Civil War as Global Conflict (2014)
The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611173253. $49.95....
Published: 12/3/14
MALANOWSKI: Commander Will Cushing (2014)
Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War by Jamie Malanowski. W.W. Norton, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-393-24089-4. $26.95. William B. Cushing is no longer a household name, even among students...
Published: 12/3/14
LEIGH: Trading with the Enemy (2014)
Trading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During the American Civil War by Philip Leigh. Westholme Publishing, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1594161995. $26.00. Philip Leigh, an independent scholar and frequent contributor to...
Published: 11/26/14
DONOHOE (ed.): The Printer’s Kiss (2014)
The Printer’s Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family edited by Patricia A. Donohoe. Kent State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1606352168. $39.95. This oddly...
Published: 11/26/14
GRANT: The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road (2014)
The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South by H. Roger Grant. Indiana University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0253011817. $40.00. On July 4, 1836, three hundred...
Published: 11/19/14
KREISER & ALLRED (eds.): The Civil War in Popular Culture (2013)
The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning edited by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr., and Randal Allred. University Press of Kentucky, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813143071. $40.00. In the fall of...
Published: 11/19/14
SCAFIDI: To the Bramble and the Briar (2014)
To the Bramble and the Briar by Steve Scafidi. University of Arkansas Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1557286512. $16.95. It’s 1901. We stare into a freshly opened coffin “to verify it was...
Published: 11/12/14
HUBBELL (ed.): On Lincoln (2014)
On Lincoln edited by John T. Hubbell. Kent State University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1606352007. $29.95. On Lincoln pulls together some of the finest scholarly writing about our nation’s sixteenth president from...
Published: 11/12/14
ZOLA: We Called Him Rabbi Abraham (2014)
We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History by Gary Phillip Zola. Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0809332922. $49.50 A number of years ago, I...
Published: 11/5/14
WHITE: Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (2014)
Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807154571. $39.95. Jonathan W. White has a healthy propensity for...
Published: 10/29/14
SCHMIEL: Citizen-General (2014)
Citizen-General: Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era by Eugene D. Schmiel. Ohio University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0821420836. $26.95. Mid-nineteenth century America can be considered the heyday of the...