Published: 9/27/23FREDETTE: Heartsick and Astonished (2023)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia by Allison Dorothy Fredette. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820364285. $32.95. Historians have long been interested in the Civil War’s...
Published: 9/25/23Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 8By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: Featured DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University Soldiers of the Texas Brigade Putting this series together has been enjoyable but also frustrating. None of the retrospective literature created by soldiers in the...
Published: 9/20/23HARRIS: Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered by William C. Harris. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-7006-3533-7. $44.95. Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important...
Published: 9/15/23Hints to SoldiersBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays The Soldier in Our Civil War, a multi-volume work about the Civil War published in 1893, showcases many of the illustrations that appeared during the conflict in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. The...
Published: 9/13/23OWENS: Consent in the Presence of Force (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469672137. Consent in the...
Published: 9/6/23ROGER HEPBURN (ed.): Private No More (2023)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry edited by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 9780820363455. $24.95. What...
Published: 8/30/23ORR: The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2023)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews The Battle of Gettysburg 1863: The Second Day by Timothy J. Orr. Illustrated by Steve Noon. Osprey, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1472854640. $25.00. Osprey Publishing has long set the standard for handsomely...
Published: 8/25/23Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 7By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE (1876) In a postwar illustration, Robert E. Lee is depicted leading his men at Gettysburg. Three books containing Robert E. Lee’s testimony provide...
Published: 8/23/23NUNLEY: The Demands of Justice (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1469673127. $27.95. The Demands of Justice examines “the...
Published: 8/18/23GOODYEAR: President Garfield (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear. Simon & Schuster, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-9821-4691-7. $35.00. He was the first front porch campaigner and the last president born in...