Published: 2/28/24DEMPSEY (ed.): When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed (2023)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Jack Dempsey has ably edited the wartime letters of an ordinary Michigan family in "When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed."
Published: 2/21/24WALLACE: The Battle of Little Bighorn (2023)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews In "The Battle of Little Bighorn," author Wendy Ann Wallace contends that George Armstrong Custer was sabotaged.
Published: 2/14/24SMITH: The Iron Dice of Battle (2023)By: Riley SullivanCategory: Book Reviews Timothy B. Smith's "The Iron Dice of Battle" offers a fresh interpretation of the often-overlooked Albert Sidney Johnston.
Published: 2/7/24ALTEMOS: From the Wilderness to Appomattox (2023)By: Zachery A. FryCategory: Book Reviews Edward Altemos' "From the Wilderness to Appomattox" is a solid regimental history for an outfit that deserves it.
Published: 1/31/24WILLOUGHBY: Masters of Health (2022)By: Jonathan S. JonesCategory: Book Reviews Christopher D.E. Willoughby's "Masters of Health" is essential reading for historians of medicine and slavery.
Published: 1/24/24LAMBERT, JR: The Political Transformation of David Tod (2023)By: Daniel W. Crofts Category: Book Reviews Joseph Lambert, Jr.'s "The Political Transformation of David Tod" is a nicely written biography of Ohio's governor during two tumultuous years of war.
Published: 1/17/24RABLE: Conflict of Command (2023)By: Andrew F. LangCategory: Book Reviews In "Conflict of Command," George C. Rable's dispassionate presentation of evidence allows historical contemporaries to tell their own story.
Published: 1/3/24CRAGO: The Creation of a Crusader (2023)By: Frank Kalisik IIICategory: Book Reviews The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago. Kent State University Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1606354636. $39.95. Thomas Morris,...
Published: 12/29/23BEILEIN, JR.: A Man by Any Other Name (2023)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, historians of a much earlier American conflict began to see similarities between the guerilla warfare that played out in the dense jungles of Southeast Asia and the irregular fighting that characterized the Civil War experience in places like Missouri and Kansas.
Published: 12/21/23SILBER: Twelve Days (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Twelve Days: How The Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War by Tony Silber. Potomac Books, 2023, Cloth, IBSN: 978-1640125483. $36.95. Historical consensus has long...