Quinn McPhail
Published: 11/25/20
The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign (2020)
Gary Gallagher, one of our nation’s most distinguished Civil War era historians, contends (and I happen to concur with him on this point) that “Civil War battlefields bring the past...
Published: 11/18/20
Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg (2020)
In June 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia launched its summer campaign, which culminated in the Battle of Gettysburg. Most Americans today are aware of the importance of the battle...
Published: 11/11/20
Fighting for Citizenship (2020)
In the fall of 1862, as Confederate forces surged into Kentucky, white residents of Cincinnati dragooned the city’s black inhabitants into defending the city. This forced labor rankled many, who...
Published: 11/4/20
My Dear Nelly (2020)
Good collections of Civil War letters offer insight into the worlds of soldiers and civilians by revealing both connections to the larger conflict and the rhythms of ordinary life during...
Published: 10/28/20
Unforgiven (2021)
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln stands as one of the most calamitous events in United States history. An assassin’s bullet struck down the sixteenth president at the culmination of four...
Published: 10/21/20
She Came to Slay (2019)
In 2019, Harriet Tubman had a moment. A Hollywood biographical film directed by Kasi Lemmons and starring Cynthia Erivo grossed nearly fifty million dollars and received generally positive reviews. Erivo...
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Published: 10/16/20
John Brown’s Raid
In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of obtaining the necessary weapons to arm a successful slave insurrection throughout...
Published: 10/14/20
Confederate Citadel (2020)
Dr. Mary A. DeCredico is a Professor of Southern History and the U.S. Civil War at the United States Naval Academy. Her new book Confederate Citadel tells the story of the...
Published: 10/7/20
My Remembrance of the War (2019)
Just before the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, a soldier requested that, if he should die, George C. Maguire procure his knapsack and destroy its contents—including a cache of...
Published: 9/30/20
Lincoln and the American Founding (2020)
Abraham Lincoln still resonates with people throughout the world who call upon him for words of wisdom during times of conflict. His poetic prose dedicated to the principle of democracy...
Published: 9/23/20
Tempest Over Texas (2020)
For the past quarter century, Donald S. Frazier, currently the Director of the Texas Center at Schreiner University, has been writing innovative studies about the U.S. Civil War. Frazier’s first...
Published: 9/16/20
Old Abe (2020)
Abraham Lincoln’s life and struggles have been told and re-told in a variety of formats and perspectives. This new release—Old Abe: A Novel by John Cribb—is remarkable for its straightforward depictions...
Published: 9/9/20
Colossal Ambitions (2020)
In recent years, Paul Quigley, Michael T. Bernath, Ann Tucker, Andre Fleche, and Don Doyle have greatly expanded our understanding of the Confederate nation, situating the slaveholding republic within a...
Published: 9/2/20
The Women’s Fight (2020)
“The spaces in which women live during times of war are no more inviolate than the spaces in which men fight, and the two are never completely cordoned off from...
Published: 8/26/20
Seceding from Secession (2020)
Thirty years after the Civil War, Theodore Lang, a veteran of the 6th West Virginia Cavalry, observed that “a great neglect exists at this time, and has existed for many...
Published: 8/19/20
Hellmira (2020)
With Hellmira, Derek Maxfield supplies an easy-to-read introductory volume on Civil War military prisons, placing emphasis on the “Andersonville of the North.” Arguing that one cannot understand the “Hellmira” myth...
Published: 8/12/20
Christopher H. Tebault, Surgeon to the Confederacy (2020)
Collectors of historical artifacts often like to share what they have learned about the previous owners of their treasures. That motive drove Alan I. West, who purchased a medicine chest...
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Published: 8/7/20
Road Trip: Petersburg to Appomattox
Few regions offer a denser concentration of Civil War history than Central Virginia. The historical significance of the region is reason enough to visit, but the fact that you can retrace...