Published: 5/17/23HOOPER: Delivered Under Fire (2023)By: Tim TalbottCategory: Book Reviews Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail by Candice Shy Hooper. Potomac Books, 2023. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781640124486. $36.95. After the excitement of enlisting had faded, and the newness of soldiering had evolved...
Published: 5/9/23CIMPRICH: Navigating Liberty (2022)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich. Louisiana State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-08071777990. $45.00. Published to great fanfare in 1964, Rehearsals for...
Published: 5/3/23PRIDE: Storm Over Key West (2020)By: Kevin McPartlandCategory: Book Reviews Storm Over Key West: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom by Mike Pride. Pineapple Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1683340935. $26.95. Florida often receives scant coverage from Civil War scholars, but...
Published: 4/25/23MAXFIELD: Man of Fire (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War by Derek D. Maxfield. Savas Beatie, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-599-1. $16.95. Derek D. Maxfield’s Man of Fire is the latest entry in Savas...
Published: 4/19/23HAUMESSER: The Democratic Collapse (2022)By: J. Matthew WardCategory: Book Reviews The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469671437. $27.95. Lauren Haumesser’s excellent book...
Published: 4/12/23MacKENZIE: The Fifth Border State (2023)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829-1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie. West Virginia University Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1952271717. $29.99. Three decades after the...
Published: 4/5/23SMITH: Young America (2022)By: Benjamin E. ParkCategory: Book Reviews Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism Before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith. University of Virginia Press, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813948539. $49.50. There is a common narrative that America’s two-party system,...
Published: 3/29/23LONGACRE: Unsung Hero of Gettysburg (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg by Edward G. Longacre. Potomac Books, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1640124295. $34.95. When it comes to cavalry commanders at the...
Published: 3/22/23KENT: Lincoln: The Fire of Genius (2022)By: Jonathan TraceyCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America by David J. Kent. Lyons Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1493063833. $29.95. Plenty of people who...
Published: 3/15/23TROTTI: The End of Public Execution (2022)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion & Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4696-7040-9. $32.95. One of the most...