Blog
Published: 1/9/19
GOTTFRIED: The Maps of Fredericksburg (2018)
The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 – January 22, 1863 by Bradley M. Gottfried. Savas Beatie, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-372-0....
Published: 1/2/19
TETERS: Practical Liberators (2018)
Practical Liberators: Union Officers In the Western Theater During the Civil War by Kristopher A. Teters. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN:978-1469638867. $32.95. Kristopher A. Teters’s new book...
Published: 12/31/18
New Year’s Eve in Camp
War Letters of William Thompson Lusk (1911) William Thompson Lusk, 79th New York Infantry On New Year’s Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York...
Published: 12/26/18
SAUERS: The National Tribune Civil War Index (2018)
The National Tribune Civil War Index: A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943 compiled by Richard Sauers. 3 vols. Savas Beatie, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1611213645. $44.95 (for...
Published: 12/19/18
WILLIAMS & KUTZLER (eds.): Prison Pens (2018)
Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863-1866 edited by Timothy J. Williams and Evan A. Kutzler. University of Georgia Press, 2018. ISBN:...
Published: 12/17/18
Emancipation on Stage
Aaron Flacke Ron Orbach (left) plays Major General Benjamin Butler and Cornelius Davidson portrays Shepard Mallory, an enslaved man who has taken refuge in Union-held Fortress Monroe, in “Ben Butler,”...
Published: 12/12/18
ROBERTS (ed.): ‘This Infernal War’ (2018)
“This Infernal War”: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard edited by Timothy Mason Roberts. Kent State University Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1606353356. $34.95. The correspondence of William and Jane...
Published: 12/9/18
The Best Civil War Books of 2018
The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2018 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful...
Published: 12/5/18
MITCHAM: Vicksburg (2018)
Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War by Samuel W. Mitcham. Regnery History, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1621576396. $29.99. Samuel Mitcham’s recounting of events along the Mississippi River takes the...
Published: 12/3/18
Interview: Emerging Scholars at American Civil War Museum
American Civil War Museum The new American Civil War Museum, scheduled to open in May 2019 As proud sponsors of American Civil War Museum’s upcoming Emerging Scholars program—set to occur...
Published: 11/28/18
SOMMERS: Challenges of Command in the Civil War (2018)
Challenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond by Richard J. Sommers. Savas Beatie, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611214321. $29.95 Every serious student of the Civil War...
Published: 11/21/18
STEWART & MARKS (eds.): Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations (2018)
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations edited by Whitney Nell Stewart and John Garrison Marks.University of Georgia Press, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820353111. $29.95. In Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations, editors...
Published: 11/14/18
WERT: Civil War Barons (2018)
Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation by Jeffry D. Wert. DaCapo, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0306825125. $30.00. Jeffry D. Wert is perhaps best...
Published: 11/12/18
“A Lady of Excellent Worth”
Cahaba: A Story of Captive Boys in Blue (1888) Castle Morgan prison in Cahaba, Alabama, as it appeared during the Civil War Nearly twenty years after the end of the...
Published: 11/7/18
ULLRICH & CRAIG: General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky (2018)
General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky: Assessing the “Reign of Terror” of the Summer of 1864 by Dieter C. Ullrich and Berry Craig. McFarland, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476671437. $39.95. Civil War...
Published: 10/31/18
LANG: In The Wake of War (2017)
In The Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America by Andrew F. Lang. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807167069. $47.50. Americans today are seemingly unconcerned about standing...
Published: 10/24/18
WHITE: New Bern and the Civil War (2018)
New Bern and the Civil War by James Edward White III. The History Press, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-1625859921. $21.99. Local historian James White has produced an account of the small North Carolina...
9
Published: 10/19/18
Currier and Ives on Lincoln
Explore prints of Abraham Lincoln made by Currier and Ives during the Civil War. Discover the artistry and historical significance of these iconic images.