Published: 12/19/23MENDELSOHN: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. Mendelsohn. New York University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1479812233. $35.00. For more than 100 years, the go-to reference...
Published: 12/13/23SEGER (ed.): Reading Confederate Monuments (2022)By: Maddie SetiawanCategory: Book Reviews Reading Confederate Monuments edited by Maria Seger. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 9781496841643. $25.00. Confederate monuments continue to permeate the discourse on Civil War memory, especially in its...
Published: 12/6/23HULBERT: Oracle of Lost Causes (2023)By: Summer PerrittCategory: Book Reviews Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War by Matthew Christopher Hulbert. Bison Books, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4962-1187-3. $34.95. Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards...
Published: 11/22/23GOODEN: The Governor’s Pawns (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews The Governor’s Pawns: Hostages and Hostage-Taking in Civil War West Virginia by Randall S. Gooden. Kent State University Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-457-5. $55.00. On April 28, 1863, a detail...
Published: 11/15/23WHITE: Shipwrecked (2023)By: J. Matthew WardCategory: Book Reviews Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade by Jonathan W. White. Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 9781538175019. $29.95. Jonathan W. White...
Published: 11/8/23BRUNDAGE (ed.): A New History of the American South (2023)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews A New History of the American South edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469626659. $45.00. A New History of the American South delivers...
Published: 11/1/23STRALEY: A Constant Reminder to All (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews A Constant Reminder to All: Stonewall Jackson, the Lost Cause, and the Making of a West Virginia Idol by Steven Cody Straley. 35th Star Publishing, 2022. Paper, IBSN: 979-8-9865993-5-9. $15.95....
Published: 10/25/23HESS: July 22 (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta by Earl J. Hess. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 9700700633968. $44.95. Atlanta. Crown jewel of the Confederacy and Gate City...
Published: 10/18/23HIPPENSTEEL: Sand, Science, and the Civil War (2023)By: Jeremy KnollCategory: Book Reviews Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820363530. $44.95. It is always refreshing to see a novel...
Published: 10/11/23SHEA: Union General (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West by William L. Shea. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1640125186. $34.95. William L. Shea is a prolific scholar of...