Published: 11/22/23GOODEN: The Governor’s Pawns (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews The Governor’s Pawns: Hostages and Hostage-Taking in Civil War West Virginia by Randall S. Gooden. Kent State University Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-457-5. $55.00. On April 28, 1863, a detail...
Published: 11/15/23WHITE: Shipwrecked (2023)By: J. Matthew WardCategory: Book Reviews Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade by Jonathan W. White. Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 9781538175019. $29.95. Jonathan W. White...
Published: 11/8/23BRUNDAGE (ed.): A New History of the American South (2023)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews A New History of the American South edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469626659. $45.00. A New History of the American South delivers...
Published: 11/1/23STRALEY: A Constant Reminder to All (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews A Constant Reminder to All: Stonewall Jackson, the Lost Cause, and the Making of a West Virginia Idol by Steven Cody Straley. 35th Star Publishing, 2022. Paper, IBSN: 979-8-9865993-5-9. $15.95....
Published: 10/30/23The Books That Built Me: John HennessyBy: John HennessyCategory: Featured The contruction of my historiographical self began on a rainy afternoon in fifth grade. There was no chance for outdoor romping, or venturing through the deluge to a friend’s house...
Published: 10/25/23HESS: July 22 (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta by Earl J. Hess. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 9700700633968. $44.95. Atlanta. Crown jewel of the Confederacy and Gate City...
Published: 10/18/23HIPPENSTEEL: Sand, Science, and the Civil War (2023)By: Jeremy KnollCategory: Book Reviews Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820363530. $44.95. It is always refreshing to see a novel...
Published: 10/11/23SHEA: Union General (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West by William L. Shea. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1640125186. $34.95. William L. Shea is a prolific scholar of...
Published: 10/6/23Lincoln Prize Lecture 2023By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line On October 26, 2023, The American Civil War Museum (ACWM), in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, will host its first annual Lincoln Prize Lecture, where guests will...
Published: 10/4/23WILSON: The Southern Way of Life (2023)By: Corey J. MarkumCategory: Book Reviews The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South by Charles Reagan Wilson. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6498-9. $39.95. This book...