Published 7/17/2019
WHITE: Let Us Die Like Men (2019)
By: Thomas Mack Category: Book Reviews
Unable to compel Sherman to attack, Hood trundled west into Alabama and changed his objective.
Published 7/10/2019
TSOURAS: Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War (2018)
By: Zachery Fry Category: Book Reviews
The author shows how a superior general staff...helped wrest the initiative away from Lee's army as the war in the Eastern Theater dragged on.
Published 7/3/2019
BROOMALL: Private Confederacies (2019)
By: Cecily N. Zander Category: Book Reviews
[S]tands at the edge of a field of historical inquiry that is sure to gain greater currency among historians...
Published 6/26/2019
SEIPLE: Louisa on the Front Lines (2019)
By: Paige Gibbons Backus Category: Book Reviews
Much like Alcott's work, Seiple's narrative leaps off the page.
Published 6/19/2019
SAINLAUDE: France and the American Civil War (2019)
By: Evan C. Rothera Category: Book Reviews
...a marvelous book that contains fascinating analysis about French diplomacy...demonstrates how historians have too long made France into a junior partner of Great Britain.
Published 6/12/2019
SCHLOTTERBECK (et al., eds.): James Riley Weaver's Civil War (2019)
By: Carolyn Levy Category: Book Reviews
Weaver's writings provide rare insight into the complexities of the prisoner of war experience.
Published 6/5/2019
HORWITZ: Spying on the South (2019)
By: Christopher Gwinn Category: Book Reviews
We have lost a singular voice in the field of popular history.
Published 5/29/2019
MILLER: North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession (2019)
By: Stephen Edwards Category: Book Reviews
Reveals a new perspective on pro-Union southerners....draws sensible conclusions from the evidence it uses.
Published 5/22/2019
HOOD: The Army of Tennessee in Retreat (2018)
By: Robert Glaze Category: Book Reviews
On December 16, 1864, Union General George Thomas accomplished a goal that Civil War field commanders found to be unobtainable: the climactic destruction of an enemy army.
Published 5/15/2019
LONGACRE: Custer (2018)
By: Daniel Davis Category: Book Reviews
Longacre has breathed new life into Custer's career...
