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Published: 6/17/15
BREWSTER: Lincoln’s Gamble (2014)
Lincoln’s Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War by Todd Brewster. Scribner, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1451693867. $27.00. “I love...
Published: 6/10/15
CUSHMAN: Belligerent Muse (2014)
Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War by Stephen Cushman. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1469618777. $28.00. As Stephen...
Published: 6/3/15
DOYLE: The Cause of All Nations (2014)
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War by Don Doyle. Basic Books, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0465029679. $29.99. It has long been accepted that the Civil...
Published: 6/1/15
Trial of a Confederate Terrorist
John Yates Beall’s friends stirred up a hornet’s nest of protest over the death sentence he had been given by a military commission sitting on Governor’s Island in New York...
Published: 5/27/15
GORDON: A Broken Regiment (2014)
A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War by Lesley J. Gordon. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807157305. $49.95. On the Otto Farm at the Antietam National Battlefield, 150 yards...
Published: 5/20/15
HARRIS: Across the Bloody Chasm (2014)
Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807157725. $42.50. In this new study of...
Published: 5/20/15
ROBISON: Confederates in Montana Territory (2014)
Confederates in Montana Territory: In the Shadow of Price’s Army by Ken Robison. The History Press, 2014. Paper, IBSN: 978-1626196032. $19.99. “I am so heartily sick of negro rule & Yankee...
Published: 5/13/15
HORN: The Man Who Would Not Be Washington (2015)
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History by Jonathan Horn. Scribner, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1476748566. $28.00. This is not...
Published: 5/6/15
GIESBERG (ed.): Emilie Davis’s Civil War (2014)
Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 edited by Judith Giesberg. Penn State University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0271063683. $16.95. Judith Giesberg’s Emilie Davis’s Civil...
Published: 4/29/15
McKENNA: From Vicksburg to Cedar Creek (2014)
From Vicksburg to Cedar Creek: The 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War by Thomas P. McKenna. Camp Pope Publishing, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1929919550. $18.95. The 22nd Iowa was an...
Published: 4/22/15
LEES & GASKE: Recalling Deeds Immortal (2014)
Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War by William B. Lees and Frederick P. Gaske. University Press of Florida, 2014. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-8130-4996-0. $44.95. For well over a century,...
Published: 4/22/15
OLLER: American Queen (2014)
American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War “Belle of the North” and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal by John Oller. DaCapo Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0306822803....
Published: 4/22/15
LONGACRE: The Early Morning of War (2014)
The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 by Edward G. Longacre. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0806144986. $29.95. Edward G. Longacre’s new history of First Bull Run is...
Published: 4/17/15
An Interview with Brian Craig Miller (2015)
Our Conversation with Brian Craig Miller, an Associate Professor of history at Emporia State University and recent author of “Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South,” now out with...
Published: 4/15/15
ALFORD: Fortune’s Fool (2015)
Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth by Terry Alford. Oxford University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0195054125. $29.95. As Terry Alford notes in the introduction to Fortune’s Fool, the last...
Published: 4/15/15
STEERS: Lincoln’s Assassination (2014)
Lincoln’s Assassination by Edward Steers Jr. Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0809333493. $24.95. As the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War comes to an end, historians and...
Published: 4/8/15
GRAHAM: The Coal River Valley in the Civil War (2014)
The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains, 1861 by Michael B. Graham. The History Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626196605. $19.99. The History Press, publisher of Michael B....
Published: 4/1/15
PARSON: Work for Giants (2014)
Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo / Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864 by Thomas E. Parson. Kent State University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-222-9. $39.95. The Tupelo Campaign offers...