The Bookshelf

"Unforgiven" presents a unique, tense, and absorbing twist on an unprecedented moment in U.S. Civil War and judicial history.

"She Came to Slay" is a model of how to write an engaging text for a younger, general audience.

Mary A. DeCredico's "Confederate Citadel" reminds us of the importance of place and space to national sovereignty.

"My Remembrance of the War" is a well-told and wonderfully curated firsthand recollection...an engrossing coming-of-age narrative.

Lucas E. Morel's "Lincoln and the American Founding" shows how the sixteenth president used his knowledge of the nation’s founders to oppose slavery.

Donald Frazier's "Tempest Over Texas" offers a fine-grained account of a six-month period in a theater that most people do not know very much about.

John Cribb's "Old Abe" presents a fictionalized account of Lincoln’s final, momentous years that history buffs and general readers alike can enjoy.

Adrian Brettle's "Colossal Ambitions" is the most unique work on the Confederacy to appear in many years.

In "The Women's Fight," Thavolia Glymph recounts the stories of women who were compelled by men to make sacrifices during wartime, but who have rarely been "acknowledged as political."

"Seceding from Secession" is an exemplary study, prodigiously researched, profusely illustrated, and masterfully crafted...