Book Reviews
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Published: 12/10/25
War Fought and Felt (2025)
Joshua Shiver seeks access to the inner world of Confederate soldiers by reconstructing their relationships as husbands, sweethearts, parents, and messmates.
Published: 12/3/25
The 1st Michigan Colored Regiment (2025)
An illuminating look at the experience of Black soldiers in the Civil War.
Published: 11/26/25
Conflict and Controversy in the Confederate High Command (2025)
"Conflict and Controversy in the Confederate High Command" is a readable and historiographically informed military history.
Published: 11/19/25
The National Tribune Remembers the Atlanta Campaign (2025)
Davis's expertly edited collection should remind readers of the vast and yet untapped potential of "The National Tribune."
Published: 11/12/25
Exporting Reconstruction (2024)
"Exporting Reconstruction" is part of a growing body of scholarship that broadens the study of Reconstruction beyond the U.S. South.
Published: 11/5/25
Lee Besieged (2025)
John Horn's "Lee Besieged" is a focused account of Grant's Second Offensive at Petersburg.
Published: 10/29/25
As Wolves Upon a Sheep Fold (2023)
"As Wolves Upon a Sheep Fold" delivers the story of a practical, ordinary citizen swept up in national drama.
Published: 10/22/25
From Ironclads to Admiral (2025)
John Quarstein and Robert Worden finally give Admiral John Lorimer Worden the biography he deserves.
Published: 10/15/25
Hero of Fort Sumter (2025)
Readers will enjoy learning more about Robert Anderson, a man best known for his time at Fort Sumter during the Secession Winter, in Wesley Moody's new biography.
Published: 10/8/25
Litchfield County and the Civil War (2024)
Peter C. Vermilyea offers an in-depth analysis of how the mobilization of a Civil War regiment elicited both patriotism and dissent in a New England community.
Published: 10/1/25
If I Can Get Home This Fall (2025)
Tyler Alexander has assembled a highly readable and moving account of love and war.
Published: 9/24/25
Black Antietam (2022)
"Black Antietam" is a short but welcome work that restores to view the integral role played by African Americans in the community of Sharpsburg.
Published: 9/17/25
Unconditional Surrender (2025)
"Unconditional Surrender" invites readers to understand Grant as a complex individual who confronted head-on the challenges of his times.
Published: 9/10/25
Fractured Freedoms (2025)
"Fractured Freedoms" offers a deeply researched and well written microhistory of the U.S. Civil War era in central Louisiana.
Published: 9/3/25
Lincoln the Citizen (2025)
Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame has shepherded another important primary source into print.
Published: 8/27/25
Gettysburg Surgeons (2025)
"Gettysburg Surgeons" is an engaging narrative that addresses neglected aspects along the battle's well-traveled road.
Published: 8/20/25
Sexual Violence and American Slavery (2024)
"Sexual Violence and American Slavery" thoughtfully makes hard and critical history accessible and understandable.
Published: 8/13/25
Texas: An American History (2025)
Benjamin Heber Johnson has mastered his subject in "Texas: An American History."