The Bookshelf

Editor Timothy Roberts deserves high marks...makes for good reading, and researchers will find it equally rewarding.

Vicksburg ... is a book for popular audiences ... particularly those seeking a perspective more sympathetic to the Confederates.

...a welcome introduction to the work of a distinguished historian.

With selections ranging from revolutionary-era South Carolina to mid-century Liberia to 1880s Brazil, the assembled essays provide a rich pastiche of the nineteenth century Atlantic.

Wert's skill in weaving together historical argument and satisfying narrative are on full display...

...a notable effort to raise the eponymous Union officer from [the] realm of 'folklore and myth.'

Lang's deeply researched account...is relevant for understanding not just the Civil War, but war in our own time.

The Union occupation of New Bern began in early 1862, when Major General Ambrose Burnside captured the river port.

This biography is an essential text that will shape academic scholarship...and perhaps even inspire a Broadway musical.

LeRoy's diary charts both his own painful physical disintegration and death and the Confederacy's equally tortuous path to destruction and defeat.