Published: 9/16/20CRIBB: Old Abe (2020)By: Sarah Kay BierleCategory: Book Reviews Old Abe: A Novel by John Cribb. Republic Book Publishers, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1645720164. $28.00. Abraham Lincoln’s life and struggles have been told and re-told in a variety of formats and...
Published: 9/9/20BRETTLE: Colossal Ambitions (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World by Adrian Brettle. University of Virginia Press, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813944371. $45.00. In recent years, Paul Quigley, Michael T. Bernath, Ann Tucker,...
Published: 9/2/20GLYMPH: The Women’s Fight (2020)By: Misti HarperCategory: Book Reviews The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469653631. $34.95. “The spaces in which women live during...
Published: 8/26/20WITTENBERG, SARGUS, AND BARRICK: Seceding from Secession (2020)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., and Penny L. Barrick. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1611215069....
Published: 8/19/20MAXFIELD: Hellmira (2020)By: Angela RiottoCategory: Book Reviews Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derek Maxfield. Savas Beatie, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-487-1. $14.95. With Hellmira, Derek Maxfield supplies an easy-to-read introductory volume on Civil...
Published: 8/12/20WEST: Christopher H. Tebault, Surgeon to the Confederacy (2020)By: Guy HasegawaCategory: Book Reviews Christopher H. Tebault, Surgeon to the Confederacy by Alan I. West. McFarland, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4766-8082-8. $39.95. Collectors of historical artifacts often like to share what they have learned about the...
Published: 8/5/20TUCKER: Newest Born of Nations (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy by Ann L. Tucker. University of Virginia Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813944289. $45.00 Paul Quigley has written that...
Published: 7/29/20LUNDBERG: Horace Greeley (2019)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood by James M. Lundberg. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1-4214-3287-8. $34.95. Most students of nineteenth century America regard Horace...
Published: 7/22/20LANCE: In The Waves (2020)By: J. Ross DancyCategory: Book Reviews In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance. Dutton Books, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1524744151. $28.00. On a calm, cool February night in...
Published: 7/15/20WOODS: Arguing Until Doomsday (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Arguing Until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy by Michael E. Woods. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469656397. $34.95. Listening to a debate...