Published: 4/14/21KEMPF: What Though the Field Be Lost (2021)By: Kent GrammCategory: Book Reviews What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems by Christopher Kempf. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-0807173633. $18.95. Christopher Kempf has written an excellent series of poetic reflections on the...
Published: 4/7/21STOKES (ed.): Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton (2021)By: Ashley TowleCategory: Book Reviews Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton: A Memoir of Plantation Life, War, and Reconstruction in Georgia and South Carolina edited by Karen Stokes. Mercer University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881467659....
Published: 3/31/21JEFFREY: First Chaplain of the Confederacy (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews First Chaplain of the Confederacy: Father Darius Hubert, S. J. by Katherine Bentley Jeffrey. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7337-4. $45.00. Darius Hubert, a French-born, Louisiana-based Catholic Jesuit, was...
Published: 3/24/21SMITH: In the Shadow of Gold (2020)By: Sarah Kay BierleCategory: Book Reviews In the Shadow of Gold: A Tale of the Lost Confederate Treasure by Michael Kenneth Smith. Independently Published, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 979-8684953736. $14.99. What happened to the gold that stocked the...
Published: 3/17/21WILLIS: The Black Civil War Soldier (2021)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis. NYU Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1479809004. $35.00. Ask any Civil War historian what they find compelling...
Published: 3/10/21LEVINE: Thaddeus Stevens (2021)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine. Simon & Schuster, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4767-9337-5. $28.00. Not long after the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Thaddeus Stevens lent...
Published: 3/3/21PALENCIA: ‘On Rising Ground’ (2021)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews ‘On Rising Ground’: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. by Elaine Fowler Palencia. Mercer University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881467666. $27.00....
Published: 2/24/21SEIDULE: Robert E. Lee and Me (2021)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule. St. Martin’s Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-250-23926-6. $27.99. All but one of the...
Published: 2/17/21MUELLER: Ambitious Honor (2020)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer’s Life of Service and Lust for Fame by James E. Mueller. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0806167206. $32.95. Author James Mueller’s new book opens...
Published: 2/10/21WRIGHT: Bonds of Salvation (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7389-3. $45.00. Bonds of Salvation is the result of Ben Wright’s deeply personal...