Published: 9/3/22DAVIS & BELL (eds.): The Whartons’ War (2022)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews The Whartons’ War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Bradford Wharton, 1863-1865 edited by William C. Davis and Sue Heth Bell. University of North Carolina Press, 2022....
Published: 8/31/22BURTCH & BURTCH: W.G. (2022)By: Brian MartinCategory: Book Reviews W.G.: The Opium-addicted Pistol Toting Preacher Who Raised the First Federal African American Union Troops by Donna Burtch & William Burtch. Sunbury Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1620069080. $16.95. Donna and William...
Published: 8/24/22EDWARDS: Only the Clothes on Her Back (2022)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0197568576. $34.95. Princeton...
Published: 8/17/22LITWACK: Been in the Storm So Long (1979)By: Evan C. JonesCategory: Book Reviews Been In The Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack. Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Paper, ISBN: 978-0394743981. $24.00. On the one-year anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize winning scholar...
Published: 8/10/22CHICK: Dreams of Victory (2022)By: Wesley MoodyCategory: Book Reviews Dreams of Victory: General P.G.T. Beauregard in the Civil War by Sean Michael Chick. Savas Beatie, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611215212. $16.95. Among Southerners of the Civil War generation, no Confederate general...
Published: 7/27/22BURGE: A Failed Vision of Empire (2022)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845—1872 by Daniel J. Burge. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1496228079. $60.00. In 1870, an article in the Louisville...
Published: 7/20/22SIMPSON: All for the Union (2022)By: Eric Michael BurkeCategory: Book Reviews All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War by John A. Simpson. Stackpole Books. 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0811770873. $34.95. In what can only be described as...
Published: 7/13/22ALFORD: In The Houses of Their Dead (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews In The Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, The Booths, and The Spirits by Terry Alford. Liveright, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-63149-560-1. $27.95. The same afternoon actor Edwin Booth was laid to...
Published: 7/6/22EMBERTON: To Walk About in Freedom (2022)By: Cooper H. WingertCategory: Book Reviews To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton. W.W.Norton, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1324001829. $28.95. In the middle of the Great Depression, the federal government launched an...
Published: 6/29/22NUSSBAUM (ed.): Gettysburg (2022)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg: Remembering the Civil War’s Most Decisive Battle: Three Days that Saved the United States edited by Ben Nussbaum. Fox Chapel Publishing, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1497103269. $14.99. No military engagement in...