Published: 8/31/22BURTCH & BURTCH: W.G. (2022)By: Brian MartinCategory: Book Reviews W.G.: The Opium-addicted Pistol Toting Preacher Who Raised the First Federal African American Union Troops by Donna Burtch & William Burtch. Sunbury Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1620069080. $16.95. Donna and William...
Published: 8/31/22The Five Best Books on the Civil War in the (Far) WestBy: Matthew Christopher HulbertCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress On the first day of my American West in History and Film class, I ask students to explain where the historical West of their imaginations is located,...
Published: 8/24/22EDWARDS: Only the Clothes on Her Back (2022)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0197568576. $34.95. Princeton...
Published: 8/22/22Extra Voices: A Thirst For BattleBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Anne SK Brown Military Collection In the Voices section of our Fall 2022 issue we highlighted quotes about the thirst for battle that consumed many Union and Confederate soldiers. Unfortunately,...
Published: 8/17/22LITWACK: Been in the Storm So Long (1979)By: Evan C. JonesCategory: Book Reviews Been In The Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack. Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Paper, ISBN: 978-0394743981. $24.00. On the one-year anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize winning scholar...
Published: 8/15/22Major Knipe Winging a SecessionistBy: Harper's WeeklyCategory: The Front Line Joseph F. Knipe Library of Congress The following news item and image about an incident involving Union officer Joseph Knipe ran in Harper’s Weekly on July 20, 1861—the day before...
Published: 8/10/22CHICK: Dreams of Victory (2022)By: Wesley MoodyCategory: Book Reviews Dreams of Victory: General P.G.T. Beauregard in the Civil War by Sean Michael Chick. Savas Beatie, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611215212. $16.95. Among Southerners of the Civil War generation, no Confederate general...
Published: 7/27/22BURGE: A Failed Vision of Empire (2022)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845—1872 by Daniel J. Burge. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1496228079. $60.00. In 1870, an article in the Louisville...
Published: 7/22/22Quick Picks: First Bull Run BooksBy: Harry SmeltzerCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress The Battle of Bull Run Looking to do some reading on the First Battle of Bull Run? We asked Harry Smeltzer, proprietor of the website Bull Runnings,...
Published: 7/21/22First Bull RunBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate forces clashed just north of Manassas, Virginia, in the war’s first major land battle. The engagment brought together inexperienced northern and southern volunteers,...