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Published: 6/26/14
Sneak Peak | Ron Maxwell QA
As a special “thank you” to our eNews subscribers, we offer you this first look at our Q&A with Ron Maxwell, director of Gettysburg. Here, Maxwell tells how Gettysburg almost...
Published: 6/26/14
Summer Dessert Recipes
From the pages of Godey’s Lady’s Book to your table… Rhubarb Fool Ingredients: Quart of peeled, cut, and inch-long pieces Pint of cream Stick of cinnamon Small piece of lemon-peel...
Published: 6/25/14
HAGER: Word by Word (2013)
Word By Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing by Christopher Hager. Harvard University Press, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 0674059867. $39.95. In Word by Word, Christopher Hager examines selected antebellum and wartime writings...
Published: 6/25/14
SPARKS: Where the Negroes Are Masters (2013)
Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks. Harvard University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0674724879. $29.95. As plantation owners sold...
Published: 6/18/14
VARNEY: General Grant and the Rewriting of History (2013)
General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War by Frank P. Varney. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 1611211182....
Published: 6/11/14
QUARSTEIN: Big Bethel (2011)
Big Bethel: The First Battle by John V. Quarstein. The History Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1609493540. $19.99. Historians of the Civil War have traditionally questioned the significance of the first combat...
Published: 6/11/14
COBB, HICKS & HOLT: Battle of Big Bethel (2013)
Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia by J. Michael Cobb, Edward B. Hicks, and Wythe Holt. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211166. $27.95. Within weeks of...
Published: 6/9/14
Hunter Davidson and the “Squib”
Hunter Davidson understood the Union Navy, having been in Federal service since 1841 as a teen-aged midshipman, a graduate of its Naval Academy and an instructor there, an officer who...
Published: 6/4/14
RACINE: Living a Big War in a Small Place (2013)
Living a Big War in a Small Place: Spartanburg, South Carolina during the Confederacy by Philip N. Racine. University of South Carolina Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1611172977. $21.95. As the title...
Published: 5/28/14
MINGUS: Confederate General William “Extra Billy” Smith (2013)
Confederate General William “Extra Billy” Smith: From Virginia’s Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat by Scott L. Mingus, Sr. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211298. $29.95. As the nickname for which he became...
Published: 5/26/14
The First Civil War Monument
On December 5, 1861, the residents of several Philadelphia suburbs gathered at Hatboro, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a monument to the men of their community who had died during the Battle...
Published: 5/21/14
COHEN: Reconstructing the Campus (2012)
Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War by Michael David Cohen. University of Virginia Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 9780813933177. $45.00. Reconstructing the Campus examines the effect of the Civil...
Published: 5/21/14
REINHART (ed.): Yankee Dutchmen under Fire (2013)
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire: Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry edited by Joseph R. Reinhart. Kent State University Press, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 1606351761. $45.00. Joseph R. Reinhart’s new volume...
Published: 5/14/14
MARTEN: America’s Corporal (2014)
America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace by James Marten. University of Georgia Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 0820343218. $24.95. The cover blurb for America’s Corporal describes the book’s subject, James Tanner, as...
Published: 5/9/14
An Interview with Nicholas Marshall
Our conversation with Nicholas Marshall, an associate professor of history at Marist College and recent author of “The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War,” featured in the March issue...
Published: 5/7/14
MACKOWSKI & WHITE: Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front (2013)
Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 1611211360. $32.95. In Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front,...
Published: 5/7/14
DAVIS & GREENWALT: Bloody Autumn (2014)
Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt. Savas Beatie, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211654. $12.95. Although historians still need to reserve judgment on...
Published: 5/5/14
What Should Historians Make of “Black Confederates?”
Library of Congress The topic of so-called “Black Confederates” is controversial. Some insist that Confederate nationalism motivated thousands of African Americans to fight alongside their masters, proving that slavery did...