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Published: 12/2/15
KELLER: The Story of Camp Douglas (2015)
The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison by David L. Keller. The History Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-62619-911-8. $21.99. In his introduction to the 2011 edition of Ovid...
Published: 11/25/15
RYAN: Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign (2015)
Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign by Thomas J. Ryan. Savas Beatie, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-178-8. $32.95. Intelligence, or the lack thereof, may have played the single-most important...
Published: 11/18/15
HESS: The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta (2015)
The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469622415. $35.00. Earl J. Hess has one of the...
Published: 11/18/15
HARDY: The Capitals of the Confederacy (2015)
The Capitals of the Confederacy: A History by Michael C. Hardy. Arcadia Publishing, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626198876. $19.99. Serving as a nation’s capital city is generally a rare honor—but not in...
Published: 11/13/15
What role did creative marketing play in financing the Civil War?
Wars are expensive, and the Civil War was certainly no exception! We talk with PhD Candidate, Dave Thomson, about how new marketing strategies for bonds helped finance the Civil War.
Published: 11/11/15
SMITH: Home Again (2014)
Home Again: A Civil War Novel by Michael Kenneth Smith. CreateSpace, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1499157093. $13.95. A work of historical fiction set during the Civil War, Home Again follows the lives of two young...
Published: 11/11/15
RAPAPORT: Tobacco and Smoking Among the Blue and Gray (2014)
Tobacco and Smoking Among the Blue and Gray: The Illustrated History of An American Folk-Art Curiosity—The Civil War Soldier’s Tobacco Pipe by Ben Rapaport. Briar Books Press, 2014. Cloth, $65.00. The...
Published: 11/4/15
MARTELLE: The Madman and the Assassin (2015)
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth by Scott Martelle. Chicago Review Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1613730188. $24.95 This...
Published: 11/2/15
Why was the Civil War in the West important?

Published: 10/28/15
HESTER (ed.): A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina (2015)
A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen’s Civil War Journals edited by James Robert Hester. University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611174960. $49.95. The so-called...
Published: 10/21/15
COOK (ed.): A Quiet Corner of the War (2014)
A Quiet Corner of the War: The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862-1863 by Gilbert Claflin and Esther Claflin and edited by Judy Cook. University of...
Published: 10/16/15
What type of combat did most Civil War soldiers face?
Were soldiers more likely to experience gigantic battles like Gettysburg or was the Civil War experience typically smaller in scale? Scott Nesbit and Andrew Fialka, both of the University of...
Published: 10/14/15
MAY: Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics (2013)
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America by Robert E. May. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 978-0521132527. $26.99. For decades, scholars...
Published: 10/8/15
Embattled Banner: A Conversation with Tony Horwitz
tonyhorwitz.com Author Tony Horwitz To help make sense of the recent developments regarding the Confederate battle flag, we sat down with Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the...
Published: 10/7/15
CHANDLER: The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia (2015)
The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia by Ray Chandler. The History Press, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626193444. $19.99. One might not think of northeast Georgia as an ideal...
Published: 10/2/15
How did Civil War women deal with the loss of their husbands?
Angela Elder discusses how widows dealt with the loss of their husbands during and after the Civil War.
Published: 9/30/15
DOWNS: After Appomattox (2015)
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory P. Downs. Harvard University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0674743984. $32.95. When exactly did the Civil War end? This seemingly...
Published: 9/23/15
MYERS: Rebels Against the Confederacy (2014)
Rebels Against the Confederacy: North Carolina’s Unionists by Barton A. Myers. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1107075245. $90.00. Barton Myers’s new study of North Carolina’s unionists during the Civil...