Published: 12/5/12CODDINGTON: Faces of the Civil War (2012)By: Allen C. GuelzoCategory: Book Reviews Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories by Ronald S. Coddington. The Johns Hopkins University Press, reprinted in 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0801878764. $31.95. Ron Coddington’s Faces...
Published: 11/28/12SPIELBERG: Lincoln (2012) [Take 2]By: Glenn David BrasherCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln (2012) directed by Steven Spielberg. Length: 149 minutes. Premiere: November 16, 2012. Movies can negatively shape popular perceptions of history. Birth of a Nation (1915) helped lead to the revival of the...
Published: 11/21/12GREEN: Lincoln and the Election of 1860 (2011)By: Daniel W. CroftsCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Election of 1860 by Michael S. Green. Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0809330350. $19.95. This volume, part of a series entitled “The Concise Lincoln Library,” focuses...
Published: 11/12/12SPIELBERG: Lincoln (2012) [Take 1]By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln (2012) directed by Steven Spielberg. Length: 149 minutes. Premiere: November 16, 2012. It is long past time for historians to abandon the expectation that historical films will be historically accurate...
Published: 11/7/12HEWITT & SCHOTT (eds.): Lee and His Generals (2012)By: Cathy M. WrightCategory: Book Reviews Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams edited by Lawrence Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott. University of Tennessee Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1572338504. $45.95. A new collection...
Published: 10/31/12DANIELSON: War’s Desolating Scourge (2012)By: Ryan KeatingCategory: Book Reviews War’s Desolating Scourge: The Union’s Occupation of North Alabama by Joseph W. Danielson. University of Kansas Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0700618449. $34.95. War’s Desolating Scourge is a fascinating study of the Federal...
Published: 10/24/12BRASHER: The Peninsula Campaign (2012)By: Gerald J. ProkopowiczCategory: Book Reviews The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom by Glenn David Brasher. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835447. $39.95. The subject...
Published: 10/10/12STAUFFER & TRODD (eds.): The Tribunal (2012)By: Bonnie Laughlin-SchultzCategory: Book Reviews The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid edited by John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674048857. $39.95. The Tribunal: Responses to John...
Published: 10/3/12JOHNSON: Decided on the Battlefield (2012)By: Brian M. JordanCategory: Book Reviews Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln, and the Election of 1864 by David Johnson. Prometheus Books, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1616145095. $27.00. Author David Alan Johnson, a biographer of J. Edgar...
Published: 9/26/12BENDER (ed.): Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight (2011)By: Colin WoodwardCategory: Book Reviews Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight: The Civil War Diary of Brigadier General Harris Reynolds, 1861-1865 edited by Robert Patrick Bender. University of Arkansas Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1557289711....
Published: 9/19/12MEIER: Suite Harmonic (2011)By: Carolyn ChesarinoCategory: Book Reviews Suite Harmonic: A Civil War Novel of Rediscovery by Emily Meier. Sky Spinner Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0983669201. $24.95. Emily Meier’s heavily researched Suite Harmonic: A Civil War Novel of Rediscovery imaginatively recounts...
Published: 9/16/12BURNS (director): Death and the Civil WarBy: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews American Experience: Death and the Civil War written and directed by Ric Burns. Arlington, VA. Length: 120 Minutes. Premiere: September 18, 2012, on PBS. The camera pans across a photograph as...
Published: 9/12/12MCPHERSON: War on the Waters (2012)By: Barbara Brooks TomblinCategory: Book Reviews War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835889. $35.00. War on the Waters: The Union &...
Published: 9/5/12LEVIN: Remembering the Battle of the Crater (2012)By: Caroline E. JanneyCategory: Book Reviews Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder by Kevin M. Levin. University of Kentucky Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0813136105. $35.00. In early November 1903, nearly 20,000 people gathered in...
Published: 8/29/12WILLIAMS & BURKHIMER (eds.): The Mary Lincoln Enigma (2012)By: Louis P. MasurCategory: Book Reviews The Mary Lincoln Enigma: Historians on America’s Most Controversial First Lady edited by Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0809331241. $32.95. On September 24,...
Published: 8/22/12NELSON: Ruin Nation (2012)By: Edward L. AyersCategory: Book Reviews Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Megan Kate Nelson. University of Georgia Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0820342513. $69.95. For the last quarter century scholars have worked to recover an...
Published: 8/15/12DIRCK: Lincoln and the Constitution (2012)By: Elizabeth D. LeonardCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Constitution by Brian R. Dirck. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0809331179. $19.95. In his contribution to Southern Illinois University Press’s “Concise Lincoln Library” series, historian Brian...
Published: 8/8/12SARNA & MENDELSOHN (eds.): Jews and the Civil War (2011)By: Daniel KotzinCategory: Book Reviews Jews and the Civil War: A Reader edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn. New York University Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0814771130. $24.00. The Jewish experience during the Civil War...
Published: 8/1/12NEWMAN & MUELLER (eds.): Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia (2011)By: Kristen C. BrillCategory: Book Reviews Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love edited by Richard Newman and James Mueller. Louisiana State University Press, 2011....
Published: 8/1/12CURRAN (ed.): John Dooley’s Civil War (2011)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews John Dooley’s Civil War: An Irish American’s Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment edited by Robert E. Curran. University of Tennessee Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1572338229. $59.00. For years, historians...