Published: 11/11/20TAYLOR: Fighting for Citizenship (2020)By: Robert ColbyCategory: Book Reviews Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469659770. $29.95. In the fall...
Published: 11/11/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 6By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 11/4/20TAYLOR (ed.): My Dear Nelly (2020)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor edited by Paul Taylor. Kent State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1606354070. $55.00. Good...
Published: 11/3/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 5By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 10/28/20BUTLER: Unforgiven (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial by Tom Butler. Green Feet Games, 2021. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln stands as one of the most calamitous events in United States history. An assassin’s...
Published: 10/27/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 4By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 10/23/20The Five Best Books on the Confederate HomefrontBy: Anne Sarah RubinCategory: The Front Line Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper In a New Orleans cemetery in 1863, a woman and her daughters adorn the graves of loved ones killed during the war. For decades, books about...
Published: 10/21/20DUNBAR: She Came to Slay (2019)By: Benjamin E. ParkCategory: Book Reviews She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. 37 Ink, 2019. ISBN: 978-1982139599. $23.99. In 2019, Harriet Tubman had a moment. A Hollywood biographical...
Published: 10/20/20“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 3By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...
Published: 10/16/20John Brown’s RaidBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays 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...