Published: 7/10/13JOHNSON: River of Dark Dreams (2013)By: Christine E. SearsCategory: Book Reviews River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0674045556. $35.00. Walter Johnson opens River of Dark...
Published: 7/3/13REARDON & VOSSLER: A Field Guide to Gettysburg (2013)By: Thom BassettCategory: Book Reviews A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through its History, Places, and People by Carol Reardon and William T. Vossler. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 0807835250. $22.00....
Published: 7/3/13PETRUZZI & STANLEY: The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses (2013)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses: Synopses, Orders of Battle, Strengths, Casualties, and Maps, June 9 – July 14, 1863 by J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley. Savas Beatie, 2013....
Published: 6/26/13FULLER (ed.): The Election of 1860 Reconsidered (2013)By: Elizabeth R. VaronCategory: Book Reviews The Election of 1860 Reconsidered edited by A. James Fuller. Kent State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1606351486. $49.95. This series of essays on the election of 1860 had its origins...
Published: 6/12/13DAVIS: What the Yankees Did to Us (2012)By: Frank TowersCategory: Book Reviews What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta by Stephen Davis. Mercer University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0881463981. $35.00. General William Tecumseh Sherman was a very bad...
Published: 6/9/13BALLARD: Grant at Vicksburg (2013)By: Samuel WatsonCategory: Book Reviews Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege by Michael B. Ballard. Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 080933240X. $32.95. Grant at Vicksburg is much more than a biography or...
Published: 6/5/13KELMAN: A Misplaced Massacre (2013)By: Andrew H. FisherCategory: Book Reviews A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman. Harvard University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0674045858. $35.00. November 29, 2014, will mark the 150th anniversary of the...
Published: 5/29/13ROBINS (ed.): They Have Left Us Here To Die (2011)By: Lauren K. ThompsonCategory: Book Reviews They Have Left Us Here To Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U. S. Colored Infantry edited by Glenn Robins. Kent State University Press, 2011....
Published: 5/29/13JORDAN: Unholy Sabbath (2012)By: Kaylynn L. WashnockCategory: Book Reviews Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862 by Brian Matthew Jordan. Savas Beatie, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1611210880. $32.95. Discussion of the skirmishes fought on...
Published: 5/29/13FINCK: Divided Loyalties (2012)By: Anne MarshallCategory: Book Reviews Divided Loyalties: Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War by James Finck. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211023. $26.95. In this concise volume, James Finck, a professor at the...
Published: 5/22/13AYERS & MARTIN (eds.): America on the Eve of the Civil War (2010)By: Katherine BrackettCategory: Book Reviews America on the Eve of the Civil War: A Virginia Sesquicentennial Signature Conference edited by Edward L. Ayers and Carolyn R. Martin. University of Virginia Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0813930634. $13.95....
Published: 5/22/13BERGERON: Andrew Johnson’s Civil War (2011)By: Andrew PrymakCategory: Book Reviews Andrew Johnson’s Civil War and Reconstruction by Paul H. Bergeron. University of Tennessee Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1572339608. $24.95. Few Presidents have witnessed as drastic a historiographical shift as Andrew Johnson....
Published: 5/22/13HASEGAWA: Mending Broken Soldiers (2012)By: Brian Craig MillerCategory: Book Reviews Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs by Guy R. Hasegawa. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0809331306. $24.95. The American Civil War acted like...
Published: 5/15/13GUELZO: Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0307594084. $35.00. When I received my review copy of Allen C. Guelzo’s Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, I asked...
Published: 5/8/13GALLAGHER: Becoming Confederates (2013)By: Matt GallmanCategory: Book Reviews Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New Loyalty by Gary W. Gallagher. University of Georgia Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 0820345407. $18.95. Much of the work of the historian comes down to explaining...
Published: 5/1/13OAKES: Freedom National (2012)By: Glenn D. BrasherCategory: Book Reviews Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes. W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0393065316. $29.95. James Oakes has received high praise for...
Published: 4/24/13GOURLEY: Diverging Loyalties (2011)By: Christopher TuckerCategory: Book Reviews Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War by Bruce T. Gourley. Mercer University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0881462586. $35.00. Bruce T. Gourley’s Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During...
Published: 4/17/13TEWELL: A Self-Evident Lie (2013)By: Barbara GannonCategory: Book Reviews A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom by Jeremy J. Tewell. Kent State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1606351451. $45.00. Ironically, the falsehood discussed in Jeremy J....
Published: 4/10/13ERWIN: Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri (2012)By: Joseph M. Beilein Jr.Category: Book Reviews Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri by James W. Erwin. The History Press, 2012. Paper, ISBN: 1609493885. $19.99. The past several years have seen a great increase in interest in the history...
Published: 4/3/13QUARSTEIN: The CSS Virginia (2012)By: Craig SwainCategory: Book Reviews The CSS Virginia: Sink Before Surrender by John V. Quarstein. The History Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1609495802. $24.99. As one of the main participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the CSS Virginia has...