Published: 6/15/22PURCELL: Spectacle of Grief (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6833-8. $34.95. Early on the morning of Sunday,...
Published: 6/8/22HARDING: Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story (2022)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt by Jeffrey J. Harding. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 9781467151597. $21.99. History is replete with heart-rending...
Published: 6/1/22ELDER: Love & Duty (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6774-4. $27.95. Historian Angela Esco Elder’s debut monograph...
Published: 5/25/22STAHR: Salmon P. Chase (2022)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival by Walter Stahr. Simon & Schuster, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1501199233. $35.00. Following up on his popular biographies of Secretary of State William Seward [2012] and...
Published: 5/18/22REMSEN & UPP: Back From Battle (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Back from Battle: The Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania’s Camp Discharge and the Weary Civil War Soldiers It Served by Jim Remsen and Brad Upp. Sunbury Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1620065396. $19.95....
Published: 5/11/22JONUSAS: Hell’s Half-Acre (2022)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier by Susan Jonusas. Viking Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1984879837. $28.00. The discovery of the remains...
Published: 5/4/22WALTERS: Harriet Tubman (2022)By: Holly Pinheiro, Jr.Category: Book Reviews Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History by Kerry Walters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1440855689. $30.00. Throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth-centuries, Harriet Tubman was undoubtedly one of the...
Published: 4/20/22GROELING: First Fallen (2021)By: Kevin McPartlandCategory: Book Reviews First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling. Savas Beatie, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611215373. $29.95. In this work, Meg Groeling explores Elmer...
Published: 4/13/22PETERS (ed.): Our Comfort in Dying (2021)By: Jonathan M. SteplykCategory: Book Reviews Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermons by R. L. Dabney, Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff edited by Jonathan W. Peters. Sola Fide Publications, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-0997266641. $24.99. The Reverend...
Published: 4/6/22WHITE: A House Built By Slaves (2022)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1538161807. $26.00. For many years, historians have debated the...