Published: 3/27/13SCOTT & HEBRARD: Freedom Papers (2012)By: Wilma KingCategory: Book Reviews Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hebrard. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674047747. $35.00. In September 1899, Edouard Tinchant...
Published: 3/20/13LUBET: John Brown’s Spy (2012)By: Miles SmithCategory: Book Reviews John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook by Steven Lubet. Yale University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0300180497. $28.00. In the past 20 years no less...
Published: 3/20/13DIRCK: Abraham Lincoln and White America (2012)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln and White America by Brian R. Dirck. University of Kansas Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0700618279. $29.95. Countless books and articles about Abraham Lincoln’s views and policies on slavery and...
Published: 3/13/13DAVIS (ed.): Bully for the Band! (2012)By: David SchiefflerCategory: Book Reviews “Bully for the Band!”: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band edited by James A. Davis. McFarland, 2012. Paper, ISBN: 0786466863. $49.95. As...
Published: 3/6/13BOMAN: Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri (2011)By: Zach GarrisonCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security by Dennis K. Boman. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 080713693X. $45.00. As a wartime president tasked with...
Published: 2/27/13CODDINGTON: African American Faces of the Civil War (2012)By: Glenn David BrasherCategory: Book Reviews African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album edited by Ronald S. Coddington. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 142140625X. $29.95. When the movie Glory debut in 1989 it was...
Published: 2/27/13SIMPSON, SEARS, SHEEHAN-DEAN (eds.): The Civil War: The First Year (2011)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War: The First Year As Told By Those Who Lived It edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean. The Library of America, First Edition, 2011....
Published: 2/20/13MOAT: Killing Lincoln (2013)By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Killing Lincoln (2013) directed by Adrian Moat. Length: 120 minutes. Premiere: February 17, 2013 (National Geographic Channel). The reviewer sits down on the couch. She picks up the remote control. It...
Published: 2/13/13WILLIAMS: My Old Confederate Home (2010)By: Samuel B. McGuireCategory: Book Reviews My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans by Rusty Williams. University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0813125820. $34.95. Since Bell Irvin Wiley published The Life of...
Published: 2/6/13DESJARDIN (ed.): Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters (2012)By: Thom BassettCategory: Book Reviews Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War edited by Thomas Desjardin. Osprey Publishing, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1849085595. $25.95. This collection of documents...
Published: 1/30/13MASUR: Lincoln’s Hundred Days (2012)By: Stephen BerryCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by Louis P. Masur. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674066901. $29.95. “The Halls of Congress are like a...
Published: 1/23/13HESS: The Civil War in the West (2012)By: Jim DownsCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835420. The Civil War...
Published: 1/23/13FOOTE: The Gentlemen and the Roughs (2010)By: James Hill Welborn IIICategory: Book Reviews The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army by Lorien Foote. New York University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0814727904. $39.00. Positing the Union Army as northern...
Published: 1/16/13How We Need to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Lincoln and Django Unchained (2013)By: Christian McWhirterCategory: Book Reviews How We Need to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Lincoln and Django Unchained Alright . . . historians, history buffs, and anyone who cares about history—take a deep breath and repeat after...
Published: 1/9/13CECELSKI: The Fire of Freedom (2012)By: Donald R. ShafferCategory: Book Reviews The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway & the Slaves’ Civil War by David S. Cecelski. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835668. $30.00. A difficult scholarly challenge is rescuing...
Published: 1/2/13TARANTINO: Django Unchained (2012)By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Django Unchained directed by Quentin Tarantino. Length: 166 minutes. Premiere: December 25, 2012. That Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is the most effective depiction of American slavery in the recent history of...
Published: 12/26/12DAVIS: A Taste For War (2011)By: William KurtzCategory: Book Reviews A Taste For War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray by William C. Davis. University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Paperback, ISBN: 0803235224 $19.95. Historians have long tried to capture...
Published: 12/18/12HERDEGEN: The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory (2012)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats from Appomattox to Bull Run and Thereafter by Lance Herdegen. Savas Beatie, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211069. $39.95. Few infantry units in...
Published: 12/12/12ARENSON: The Great Heart of the Republic (2011)By: Megan L. BeverCategory: Book Reviews The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War by Adam Arenson. Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674052889. $36.50. Adam Arenson’s engaging study of mid-nineteenth-century St....
Published: 12/10/12Holiday Civil War Trivia Contest: WinnerBy: Matthew HulbertCategory: Book Reviews Trivia Question: A skirmish at this place on October 29, 1862, is widely regarded as the first time black troops in the Union Blue engaged in combat during the Civil War. Correct...