Published: 1/17/24RABLE: Conflict of Command (2023)By: Andrew F. LangCategory: Book Reviews In "Conflict of Command," George C. Rable's dispassionate presentation of evidence allows historical contemporaries to tell their own story.
Published: 1/8/24Extra Voices: Doldrums of WarBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line In the Voices section of our Fall 2023 issue we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the long stretches of inactivity and boredom they regularly faced. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room to include all that we found. Below are those that just missed the cut.
Published: 1/3/24CRAGO: The Creation of a Crusader (2023)By: Frank Kalisik IIICategory: Book Reviews The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago. Kent State University Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1606354636. $39.95. Thomas Morris,...
Published: 12/29/23BEILEIN, JR.: A Man by Any Other Name (2023)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, historians of a much earlier American conflict began to see similarities between the guerilla warfare that played out in the dense jungles of Southeast Asia and the irregular fighting that characterized the Civil War experience in places like Missouri and Kansas.
Published: 12/21/23SILBER: Twelve Days (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Twelve Days: How The Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War by Tony Silber. Potomac Books, 2023, Cloth, IBSN: 978-1640125483. $36.95. Historical consensus has long...
Published: 12/19/23MENDELSOHN: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. Mendelsohn. New York University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1479812233. $35.00. For more than 100 years, the go-to reference...
Published: 12/13/23SEGER (ed.): Reading Confederate Monuments (2022)By: Maddie SetiawanCategory: Book Reviews Reading Confederate Monuments edited by Maria Seger. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 9781496841643. $25.00. Confederate monuments continue to permeate the discourse on Civil War memory, especially in its...
Published: 12/11/23The Best Civil War Books of 2023By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Featured The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2023 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War...
Published: 12/6/23HULBERT: Oracle of Lost Causes (2023)By: Summer PerrittCategory: Book Reviews Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War by Matthew Christopher Hulbert. Bison Books, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4962-1187-3. $34.95. Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards...
Published: 11/23/23Thanksgiving DayBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays “It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do...