Published: 10/4/23WILSON: The Southern Way of Life (2023)By: Corey J. MarkumCategory: Book Reviews The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South by Charles Reagan Wilson. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6498-9. $39.95. This book...
Published: 9/27/23FREDETTE: Heartsick and Astonished (2023)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia by Allison Dorothy Fredette. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820364285. $32.95. Historians have long been interested in the Civil War’s...
Published: 9/20/23HARRIS: Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered by William C. Harris. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-7006-3533-7. $44.95. Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important...
Published: 9/13/23OWENS: Consent in the Presence of Force (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469672137. Consent in the...
Published: 9/6/23ROGER HEPBURN (ed.): Private No More (2023)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry edited by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 9780820363455. $24.95. What...
Published: 8/30/23ORR: The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2023)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews The Battle of Gettysburg 1863: The Second Day by Timothy J. Orr. Illustrated by Steve Noon. Osprey, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1472854640. $25.00. Osprey Publishing has long set the standard for handsomely...
Published: 8/23/23NUNLEY: The Demands of Justice (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1469673127. $27.95. The Demands of Justice examines “the...
Published: 8/18/23GOODYEAR: President Garfield (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear. Simon & Schuster, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-9821-4691-7. $35.00. He was the first front porch campaigner and the last president born in...
Published: 8/9/23GREENIDGE: The Grimkes (2022)By: John Frederick BellCategory: Book Reviews The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge. Liveright, 2022. ISBN 978-1-324-09454-8. $32.50. Among the leading African American professionals at the turn of the twentieth century...
Published: 8/2/23O’NEILL: Small but Important Riots (2023)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville by Robert F. O’Neill. Potomac Books, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-64012-547-6. $36.95. By the author’s own admission, Small but Important Riots has been...