Published: 7/26/23LOVOLL: Colonel Hans Christian Heg (2023)By: Niels EichornCategory: Book Reviews Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience by Odd S Lovoll. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1681342504. $19.25. Tens of thousands of foreign-born and first- or second-generation immigrants...
Published: 7/19/23FOWLER: The Grammar of Civil War (2022)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews The Grammar of Civil War: A Mexican Case Study, 1857-61 by Will Fowler. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1496230461. $65.00. Will Fowler, currently professor of Latin American studies at the...
Published: 7/11/23NEWMARK: Without Concealment, Without Compromise (2023)By: Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr.Category: Book Reviews Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark. Southern Illinois University Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3904-4. $29.95. One might suppose there is nothing...
Published: 7/5/23WEEKS: Cherokee Civil Warrior (2023)By: Jeremy KnollCategory: Book Reviews Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty by W. Dale Weeks. University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0806191577. $32.95. W. Dale Weeks makes clear that...
Published: 6/28/23WEST: Continental Reckoning (2023)By: John R. LeggCategory: Book Reviews Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion by Elliott West. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 9781496233585. $39.95. How does the birth of the American West relate...
Published: 6/21/23ACKEN (ed.): Through Blood and Fire (2023)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865 edited by J. Gregory Acken. Revised and Expanded Edition. Kent State University Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-454-4....
Published: 6/14/23KRAMER: Civil War Generals of Indiana (2022)By: Riley SullivanCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Generals of Indiana by Carl E. Kramer. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467151955. $23.99. During the U.S. Civil War, some three million men provided their services to both the...
Published: 6/7/23TOWLE: African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom (2022)By: Daniel KotzinCategory: Book Reviews African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Ashley Towle. Lexington Books, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1666905717. $95.00. With this book, Ashley...
Published: 5/31/23MARTIN: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge (2022)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War by Brian Martin. ECW Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-77041-638-3. $19.95. Josiah Henson, believed by many to be the inspiration for...
Published: 5/24/23HARMAN: All Roads Led to Gettysburg (2022)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign by Troy D. Harman. Stackpole Books, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0811770637. $29.95. Nearly two decades after the release...