Published: 10/12/11MCCURRY: Confederate Reckoning (2010)By: David K. ThomsonCategory: Book Reviews Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry. Harvard University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0674045890. $35.00. Stephanie McCurry’s latest work offers a welcomed examination of the...
Published: 10/12/11MARTEN: Sing Not War (2011)By: Brian M. JordanCategory: Book Reviews Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America by James Marten. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807834769. $39.95. Civil War...
Published: 10/11/11D. W. Griffith’s Other Civil War MovieBy: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line The infamous director’s 1930 biography of Lincoln was one of only two “talkies” made by Griffith, and stars Walter Huston in the title role. The screenplay is by Stephen...
Published: 10/10/11Voices from the Past: A “Plucky” Young SoldierBy: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line Good morning! The Civil War Monitor has added a new section to The Front Line: Quotables. Each Monday, we will share a Voice from Past to help you learn more...
Published: 10/5/11BERRY (ed.): Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges (2011)By: W. Fitzhugh BrundageCategory: Book Reviews Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges edited by Stephen Berry. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0820341274. $24.95. What we have here is an excellent...
Published: 10/4/11“It made us an ‘is’.”By: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line It's one of the great quotes, from one of the great documentaries, that sums up the legacy of the American Civil War: Before the war, it was said 'the United States are'– grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always 'the [...]
Published: 9/29/11A War of WordsBy: Amy Murrell TaylorCategory: The Front Line There’s a lot that remains unsettled about the Civil War: “Manassas” or “Bull Run”? “Civil War” or “War Between the States”? Forget the big questions about what the war was...
Published: 9/28/11GALLAGHER: The Union War (2011)By: Nicole EtchesonCategory: Book Reviews The Union War by Gary W. Gallagher. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674045620. $27.95. Ken Burns’s Civil War series made famous Rhode Island soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes’s phrase, “All...
Published: 9/28/11GOODHEART: 1861: The Civil War Awakening (2011)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1400040155. $28.85. Adam Goodheart’s much heralded 1861: The Civil War Awakening is an eloquent, innovative, and deeply...
Published: 9/27/11Texas SCV Calls for a New StrategyBy: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line Recently Mark Vogl, Lieutenant Commander of the Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, called for a shift strategy in that organization’s approach to “heritage defense,” away from throwing...