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Published: 3/12/14
GLEESON: The Green and the Gray (2013)
The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America by David T. Gleeson. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1469607565. $35.00. This interesting new book...
Published: 3/7/14
An Interview with Susannah J. Ural
Our interview with Susannah J. Ural, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and recent author of “Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War...
Published: 2/26/14
ASH: The Black Experience in the Civil War South (2013)
The Black Experience in the Civil War South by Stephen V. Ash. Potomac Books, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1612346294. $17.95. Stephen V. Ash’s The Black Experience in the Civil War South is a terrific introduction for...
Published: 2/19/14
EARLE & BURKE (eds.): Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri (2013)
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border edited by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke. University Press of Kansas, 2013. Paper. ISBN: 0700619291. $19.95. July 2013 brought...
Published: 2/12/14
SIMPSON: The Civil War in the East (2013)
The Civil War in the East: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory by Brooks D. Simpson. Potomac Books, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1612346286. $19.95. Scholars, students, and teachers should hail the appearance of Brooks...
Published: 2/10/14
The Civil War on the Great Lakes
When President Jefferson Davis refused to sanction a plot to take the American Civil War to the Great Lakes in the winter of 1863, Confederate Navy Lieutenant Robert D. Minor...
Published: 2/7/14
An Interview with Jaime Martinez
Our conversation with Jaime Martinez, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and author of “Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South,” now out...
Published: 2/5/14
McDANIEL: The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery (2013)
The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists & Transatlantic Reform by W. Caleb McDaniel. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0807150185. $48.00. At first glance, Garrisonian...
Published: 1/31/14
An Interview with Megan Kate Nelson and Kevin Levin
Our conversation with Megan Kate Nelson (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Brown University) and Kevin Levin (Instructor, Gann Academy) on their most recent project—co-editing a special issue of Common-Place entitled...
Published: 1/29/14
LAUSE: Price’s Lost Campaign (2011)
Price’s Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri by Mark A. Lause. University of Missouri Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0826219497. $29.95. If the devil is truly in the details, Old Scratch...
Published: 1/24/14
An Interview with Rachel Shelden
Our conversation with Rachel Shelden, an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia College and State University and author of “Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil...
Published: 1/15/14
THOMSON (ed.): We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die (2013)
We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die: The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard, edited by David K. Thomson. University of Tennessee Press, 2013. Cloth,...
Published: 1/14/14
CONROY: Our One Common Country (2014)
Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 by James B. Conroy. Lyons Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 0762778075. $27.95. I suppose that it’s rare to...
Published: 1/8/14
BORCHARD: Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley (2011)
Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley by Gregory A. Borchard. Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0809330458. $19.95. Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley is an installment in Southern Illinois University’s Concise...
Published: 1/8/14
HOLZER & GABBARD (eds.): 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year (2013)
1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard. Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0809332469. $32.95. The year 1863 was pivotal to the American Civil War,...
Published: 1/1/14
HESS: The Knoxville Campaign (2012)
The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee by Earl J. Hess. University of Tennessee Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1572339950. $29.95. The Confederate offensive to capture the Union-held city of...
Published: 1/1/14
WITTENBERG: Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg (2013)
Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles of Brinkerhoff’s Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1611210941. $16.95. Clausewitz tells us...
Published: 12/25/13
FINSETH (ed.):The American Civil War (2013)
The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology, Second Edition, edited by Ian Frederick Finseth. Routledge, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 041553707X. $54.95. Anthologies of the American Civil War frequently lose...