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Published: 11/19/14
KREISER & ALLRED (eds.): The Civil War in Popular Culture (2013)
The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning edited by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr., and Randal Allred. University Press of Kentucky, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813143071. $40.00. In the fall of...
Published: 11/19/14
SCAFIDI: To the Bramble and the Briar (2014)
To the Bramble and the Briar by Steve Scafidi. University of Arkansas Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1557286512. $16.95. It’s 1901. We stare into a freshly opened coffin “to verify it was...
Published: 11/14/14
An Interview with Glenn LaFantasie
Our conversation with Glenn LaFantasie, the Robert Frockt Family Professor of History at Western Kentucky University. In this interview, we discuss Dr. LaFantasie’s most recent article entitled “Broken Promise” that...
Published: 11/12/14
HUBBELL (ed.): On Lincoln (2014)
On Lincoln edited by John T. Hubbell. Kent State University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1606352007. $29.95. On Lincoln pulls together some of the finest scholarly writing about our nation’s sixteenth president from...
Published: 11/12/14
ZOLA: We Called Him Rabbi Abraham (2014)
We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History by Gary Phillip Zola. Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0809332922. $49.50 A number of years ago, I...
Published: 11/7/14
An Interview with Jonathan White
Our conversation with Jonathan White, an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and author of “Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln,” published by...
Published: 11/7/14
An Interview with William Blair
Our conversation with William Blair, the Liberal Arts Research Professor in U.S. History at Pennsylvania State University and author of “With Malice Towards Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil...
Published: 11/5/14
WHITE: Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (2014)
Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807154571. $39.95. Jonathan W. White has a healthy propensity for...
Published: 11/3/14
Yankee Runaways
Major Charles P. Mattocks and his two comrades, Captain Julius P. Litchfield and Lieutenant Charles O. Hunt, were on the run. The three Maine Yankees, each the member of a...
Published: 10/31/14
An Interview with Harold Holzer (2014)
Our conversation with Harold Holzer, the Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York...
Published: 10/29/14
SCHMIEL: Citizen-General (2014)
Citizen-General: Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era by Eugene D. Schmiel. Ohio University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0821420836. $26.95. Mid-nineteenth century America can be considered the heyday of the...
Published: 10/29/14
WILLIAMS (ed.): Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker (2014)
Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker: The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs edited by Richard Brady Williams. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469614342. $45.00. Mention mapmaking and Stonewall Jackson, and students...
Published: 10/27/14
An Interview with James Broomall
Our conversation with James Broomall, an assistant professor of history at the University of North Florida. In this interview, we discuss Broomall’s latest work, a journal article entitled “We are...
Published: 10/22/14
HOLZER: Lincoln and the Power of the Press (2014)
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer. Simon & Schuster, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1439192719. $37.50. Harold Holzer, author of the clear, fast-paced, and...
Published: 10/22/14
DEVINE: Learning from the Wounded (2014)
Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science by Shauna Devine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469611556. $39.95. The sesquicentennial...
Published: 10/15/14
ESCOTT: Uncommonly Savage (2014)
Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States by Paul D. Escott. University Press of Florida, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813049410. $74.95. The tendency to compare elements of...
Published: 10/13/14
The Death of Roger B. Taney
Throughout the Civil War, the highest judicial officer in the United States, Roger Brooke Taney, held sympathies for the Confederacy. In June 1861—before the first major battle of the war—Taney...
Published: 10/8/14
ABBOTT: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy (2014)
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott. HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0062092892. $27.99. In this compelling popular history, New York Times bestselling author Karen Abbott...