Published: 9/11/24America’s Imagined Revolution (2024)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Tomos Wallbank-Hughes's "America's Imagined Revolution" provides Reconstruction scholars with plenty new to ponder.
Published: 9/9/24A Woman’s DevotionBy: Sarah A. BrockCategory: The Front Line In 1867, Sarah Brock’s Richmond During the War, a memoir of her experiences as a resident of the Confederate capital during the conflict, was published. The book documents Brock’s activities...
Published: 9/4/24The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews In "The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes," editor Travis Hellstrom presents some of the sixteenth president's "most loved wisdom.”
Published: 9/2/24The Civil War’s Miracle DrugsBy: Jonathan S. Jones Category: The Front Line Medicine during the Civil War is often thought of as having been dangerous and backward. Surgeon General of the U.S. Army William A. Hammond, who served from 1861-1863, is supposed...
Published: 8/28/24The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism (2024)By: K. Howell Keiser Jr.Category: Book Reviews In "The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism," Niels Eichhorn and Duncan Campbell offer a convincing study of how the Civil War fit into broader international movements.
Published: 8/26/24Extra Voices: Killing the EnemyBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line In the Voices section of our Summer 2024 issue we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers that revealed their thoughts about killing the enemy. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room...
Published: 8/23/24The Coffee WagonBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line In 1863, Philadelphia pharmacist Jacob Dunton designed and built a coffee wagon he then donated to the United States Christian Commission (USCC), an organization whose volunteers (known as “delegates”) provided...
Published: 8/21/24“Tell Mother Not to Worry” (2024)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Kirkwood’s study will undoubtedly appeal to Gettysburg aficionados. However, its utility should extend far beyond students of the conflict’s largest and costliest engagement.
Published: 8/19/24Rivers Running RedBy: Scott HippensteelCategory: The Front Line What does the mighty Mississippi have in common with the Potomac and Stones rivers? According to those who carve monuments and write local histories, on at least one occasion, all...
Published: 8/16/24Death of a Patriotic LadyBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line In 1865, the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC), an organization whose volunteer members had worked to support sick and wounded Union troops during the conflict, published a book titled Soldiers’...
Published: 8/14/24FOX: Texas Coastal Defense in the Civil War (2024)By: Riley SullivanCategory: Book Reviews William Nelson Fox’s new book supplies an introduction to military operations along the Texas Gulf Coast during the U.S. Civil War.
Published: 8/12/24Odd Civil War Photos, Pt. 1By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays The Civil War was the most widely covered conflict of the 19th century. While sketch artists followed the armies and captured, as best they could, scenes of camp and battle,...
Published: 8/7/24Wide Awake (2024)By: Andrew TurnerCategory: Book Reviews Jon Grinspan's "Wide Awake" is a must-read for 2024.
Published: 8/5/24The Power of Place in Public HistoryBy: Rich CondonCategory: The Front Line How do we interact with the places around us? How did people in the past interact with these places? These are questions that pop into my mind when I am...
Published: 7/24/24PASLEY & HAMMOND (eds.): A Fire Bell in the Past, Vol. II (2021)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews The contributors to this volume have interrogated new themes and examined old issues with new lenses.
Published: 7/22/24Reporting on the Defeated SouthBy: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line Travel accounts from the immediate aftermath of the Civil War illuminate social, economic, and political conditions in the former Confederacy. Among the best are John Richard Dennett’s The South As...
Published: 7/17/24LINDOW: We Shall Conquer or Die (2024)By: Andrew FialkaCategory: Book Reviews With his debut book, Derrick Lindow has depicted an element of the war that certainly deserves more attention.
Published: 7/15/24An Emotional Welcome HomeBy: Susan Bradford EppesCategory: The Front Line Ten days after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, 19-year-old Susan Bradford recorded the reaction she and her family...
Published: 7/10/24JOHNSON: Convicting the Mormons (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Janiece Johnson's "Convicting the Mormons" offers an engaging account of the narrative nineteenth century Americans created about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Published: 7/8/24The New York City Draft RiotsBy: Martha Derby PerryCategory: The Front Line In mid-July 1863, days after Union forces secured a victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, residents of Lower Manhattan began to riot in protest over enforcement of a previously enacted...