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: 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: 2/5/14McDANIEL: 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: 1/29/14LAUSE: 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: 1/15/14THOMSON (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...
Published: 12/25/13HORTON & KLEINTOP (eds.): Race, Slavery, and the Civil War (2011)By: Elsabe DixonCategory: Book Reviews Race, Slavery, and the Civil War: The Tough Stuff of American History and Memory edited by James Oliver Horton and Amanda Kleintop. Virginia Sesquicentennial of the Civil War Commission, 2011. Cloth,...
Published: 12/18/13Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War (2013)By: Gregg AndrewsCategory: Book Reviews Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War produced by Randall Poster. ATO Records. Release: November 5, 2013. Twenty-three years since the first airing of Ken Burns’s PBS documentary, The Civil War,...
Published: 12/14/13WHITE: Confederate General Leonidas Polk (2013)By: Brian S. WillsCategory: Book Reviews Confederate General Leonidas Polk: Louisiana’s Fighting Bishop by Cheryl H. White. The History Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1609497376. $19.99. In 1861, Leonidas Polk seemed poised to establish himself as one of...
Published: 12/11/13MCQUEEN: 12 Years a Slave (2013)By: Jason PhillipsCategory: Book Reviews 12 Years a Slave directed by Steve McQueen. Length: 134 minutes. Premiere: October 18, 2013. When 12 Years a Slave begins, a group of slaves stare at you while a voice from the...
Published: 12/4/13CLEMENS (ed.): The Maryland Campaign Vol. II (2012)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Vol. II: Antietam by Ezra A. Carman and edited by Thomas G. Clemens. Savas Beatie, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 161121114X. $37.50. Every serious student of the...
Published: 11/27/13NATHANS: To Free a Family (2012)By: James L. RoarkCategory: Book Reviews To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker by Sydney Nathans. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674725948. $29.95. In the decades before the Civil War, hundreds of slaves ran...
Published: 11/20/13PATCHAN: The Last Battle of Winchester (2013)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7 – September 19, 1864 by Scott Patchan. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1932714987. $34.95. It...