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Published: 9/24/18
Varina
John O’Brien Collection Confederate first lady Varina Davis, the subject of a new novel by Charles Frazier, as she appeared shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War A young...
Published: 9/12/18
HARDY: Kirk’s Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge (2018)
Kirk’s Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge by Michael Hardy. The History Press, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-1625858467. $21.99. Officially promoted to Colonel of the Third North Carolina Mounted Infantry (US) on...
Published: 9/9/18
GURA: Man’s Better Angels (2017)
Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War by Philip F. Gura. Harvard University Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 9780674659544. $29.95. Most historians are aware of John Brown,...
Published: 9/5/18
NASH: Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge (2016)
Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains by Steven E. Nash. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469626246. $39.95. In examining Reconstruction historiography, Appalachia is...
Published: 8/29/18
HARDY: General Lee’s Immortals (2018)
General Lee’s Immortals: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Michael C. Hardy. Savas Beatie, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611213621.$34.95. Civil War history and...
Published: 8/22/18
PFANZ: Where Valor Proudly Sleeps (2018)
Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 1866-1933 by Donald C. Pfanz. Engaging the Civil War Series at Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809336456. $26.50. Today, the Fredericksburg...
Published: 8/21/18
COLLINS: A Crooked River (2018)
A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861-1877 by Michael L. Collins. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0806160085. $29.95. “It has often been said,” Michael L....
Published: 8/15/18
LLOYD: Harbor of Spies (2018)
Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana by Robin Lloyd. Lyons Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1493032266. $24.95. Regardless of what skeptics claim, the Civil War was fought over the issue of...
Published: 8/8/18
LOPERFIDO (ed.): Death, Disease, and Life at War (2018)
Death, Disease, and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865 edited by Christopher E. Loperfido. Savas Beatie, 2018. Paper, IBSN: 978-1611213591. $16.95. The...
Published: 7/30/18
“Martyrs” to Their Cause: John Brown, Edmund Ruffin, and Harpers Ferry
John Grady The old court house at Charles Town, Jefferson County, Virginia, where John Brown was tried for treason. Long before the tumult and rage in Charlottesville last year over...
Published: 7/25/18
TAGG: The Generals of Shiloh (2017)
The Generals of Shiloh: Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862 by Larry Tagg. Savas Beatie, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611213690. $32.95. The Generals of Shiloh is designed to be a companion for anyone reading one...
Published: 7/18/18
MALAVASIC: The F Street Mess (2017)
The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act by Alice Elizabeth Malavasic. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469635521. $29.95. As a catalyst for party realignment, trigger...
Published: 7/11/18
HESS: The Battle of Peach Tree Creek (2017)
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Effort to Save Atlanta by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469634197. $37.50. On the night of July 17, 1864,...
Published: 7/4/18
GREENE: A Campaign of Giants (2018)
A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater by A. Wilson Greene. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-3857-7....
Published: 7/2/18
The Best Gettysburg Books
For our latest newsstand-only special issue, Gettysburg, we asked a number of Civil War historians for their opinions on a variety of topics, including the battle’s most overrated and underrated...
Published: 6/27/18
FRENCH: Phantoms of the South Fork (2017)
Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers by Steve French. Kent State University Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-309-7. $39.95. In this narrative history, Steve French sheds light on...
Published: 6/25/18
Whither Public History?
CLAUDIO VAZQUEZ Visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park pause during a tour of the battlefield. Every one of you reading this magazine is a member of the public history world:...
Published: 6/20/18
CUTRER: Theater of a Separate War (2017)
Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865 by Thomas W. Cutrer. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469631561. $40.00. As the subject evidenced in...