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Published: 4/4/14
An Interview with CWI’s Jill Titus
Our conversation with Jill Titus, the Associate Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. In this interview, Dr. Titus discusses the plans for the 2014 CWI which centers...
Published: 4/2/14
DAL LAGO: William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini (2013)
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform by Enrico Dal Lago. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. ISBN: 0807152064. $42.50. Enrico Dal Lago’s oeuvre demonstrates his breadth of...
Published: 4/1/14
An Interview with Chris Wheeler
Our conversation with Chris Wheeler, the writer, producer, and director of “Civil War: The Untold Story,” a new five part mini series premiering on PBS nationwide in April 2014. In...
Published: 3/28/14
An Interview with James Marten
Our conversation with James Marten, chair of the History Department at Marquette University and author of “The Ubiquitous Mr. Tanner,” an article published in the spring 2014 issue of The...
Published: 3/26/14
KREISER: Defeating Lee (2011)
Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Indiana University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0253356164. $34.95. From the slaughter in the West...
Published: 3/24/14
The Death of Jim Jackson and the Oxymoron of “Postbellum” Missouri, 1865-1866
In June 1865, Jim Jackson—one of Missouri’s more notorious Confederate guerrilla commanders—made haste for the Illinois line. The Confederate experiment to which Jackson belonged had recently ended in disaster. On...
Published: 3/19/14
ADAMS: Living Hell (2014)
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War by Michael C.C. Adams. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1421412217. $29.95. There is undoubtedly a turn toward the ‘dark side’...
Published: 3/17/14
Reconsidering the “Myth” of the Black Union Soldier
It’s hard to believe that 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the Hollywood movie Glory. Twenty-five years later it is also difficult to remember that for many...
Published: 3/12/14
LIVELY: Calamity at Chancellorsville (2013)
Calamity at Chancellorsville: The Wounding and Death of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson by Mathew W. Lively. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211387. $27.50. Calamity at Chancellorsville delves into the series of...
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...