Published: 7/25/12WILLS: George Henry Thomas (2012)By: Wayne HsiehCategory: Book Reviews George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel by Brian Steel Wills. University of Kansas Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0700618414. $39.95. While historians of the American Civil War have by no means...
Published: 7/18/12ARDEN & POWELL: Letters From the Storm (2010)By: Ivy Farr McIntyreCategory: Book Reviews Letters From the Storm: The Intimate Civil War Letters of Lt. J. A. H. Foster by Linda Foster Arden and Walter L. Powell. Mechling Bookbindery, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0984140018. $29.95. The 150th...
Published: 7/18/12HUGHES & RUSHING (eds.): Refugitta of Richmond (2011)By: Elizabeth H. TurnerCategory: Book Reviews Refugitta of Richmond: The Wartime Recollections, Grave and Gay, of Constance Cary Harris edited by Nathaniel C. Hughes Jr. and S. Kittrell Rushing. University of Tennessee Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1572337478....
Published: 7/11/12HOLZER, SYMONDS, & WILLIAMS (eds.): The Lincoln Assassination (2010)By: Angela M. ZombekCategory: Book Reviews The Lincoln Assassination: Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, & Frank J. Williams. Fordham University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN:0823232260 $29.00. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on Good Friday in...
Published: 7/11/12EMERSON: Giant in the Shadows (2012)By: Harold HolzerCategory: Book Reviews Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln by Jason Emerson. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0809330555. $39.95. Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son has long been a...
Published: 7/2/12BRADY: War Upon the Land (2012)By: Jack E. DavisCategory: Book Reviews War Upon the Land: Military Strategies and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War by Lisa M. Brady. University of Georgia Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0820342491 $24.95. Lisa...
Published: 6/27/12GILPIN: John Brown Still Lives! (2011)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews John Brown Still Lives!: America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change by R. Blakeslee Gilpin. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835013. $30.00. The catalysts, conduct, context, and...
Published: 6/20/12FLECHE: The Revolution of 1861 (2012)By: Barbara GannonCategory: Book Reviews The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict by Andre Fleche. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835234. $39.95. Perhaps the oldest and...
Published: 6/20/12DUNKELMAN: Marching With Sherman (2012)By: Thom BassettCategory: Book Reviews Marching With Sherman: Through Georgia and the Carolinas With the 154th New York by Mark H. Dunkelman. Louisiana State University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807143782. $39.95. By now most accounts of...
Published: 6/13/12STERNHELL: Routes of War (2012)By: Aaron Sheehan-DeanCategory: Book Reviews Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South by Yael A. Sternhell. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674064423. $49.95. Some changes in historical interpretation are driven by...
Published: 6/6/12FELLMAN: Views from the Dark Side of American History (2011)By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Views from the Dark Side of American History by Michael Fellman. Louisisana State University Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0807139025. $22.50. And there it was. The question I knew she would eventually...
Published: 6/6/12MCWHIRTER: Battle Hymns (2012)By: Randy FinleyCategory: Book Reviews Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War by Christian McWhirter. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835500. $39.95. In Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity...
Published: 5/30/12REARDON: With a Sword in One Hand (2012)By: John R. NeffCategory: Book Reviews With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North by Carol Reardon. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth,...
Published: 5/23/12PATCHAN: Second Manassas (2011)By: Lawrence Kreiser, Jr.Category: Book Reviews Second Manassas: Longstreet’s Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge by Scott C. Patchan. Potomac Book, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1597976873. $26.95. The fighting around Manassas Junction in northern Virginia during the...
Published: 5/16/12SCARBOROUGH: The Allstons of Chicora Wood (2011)By: Alex MacaulayCategory: Book Reviews The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry by William K. Scarborough. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807138436.$35.00. The Allstons of Chicora Wood is an...
Published: 5/16/12CARNEY: Ministers and Masters (2011)By: John J. Langdale IIICategory: Book Reviews Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South by Charity R. Carney. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 080713886X. $35.00. Over the last several decades, scholars of...
Published: 5/9/12LAUSE: A Secret Society History of the Civil War (2011)By: Matt GallmanCategory: Book Reviews A Secret Society History of the Civil War by Mark A. Lause. University of Illinois Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0252036557. $35.00. When historians of the Civil War think about wartime “secret...
Published: 5/2/12McKnight: CONFEDERATE OUTLAW (2011)By: William FeisCategory: Book Reviews Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia by Brian D. McKnight. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807137693. $34.95. Scholarly interest in Civil War guerrillas has burgeoned...
Published: 5/2/12MILLER: John Bell Hood (2010)By: James MartenCategory: Book Reviews John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory by Brian C. Miller. University of Tennessee Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 1572337028. $37.95. The Civil War destroyed John Bell Hood’s life....
Published: 4/25/12LOEWEN & SEBESTA (eds.): The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (2010)By: Jon D. BohlandCategory: Book Reviews The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause edited by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta. The University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Paper, ISBN: 1604732199. $25.00. The great...