Published: 3/20/13LUBET: John Brown’s Spy (2012)By: Miles SmithCategory: Book Reviews John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook by Steven Lubet. Yale University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0300180497. $28.00. In the past 20 years no less...
Published: 3/20/13DIRCK: Abraham Lincoln and White America (2012)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln and White America by Brian R. Dirck. University of Kansas Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0700618279. $29.95. Countless books and articles about Abraham Lincoln’s views and policies on slavery and...
Published: 3/13/13DAVIS (ed.): Bully for the Band! (2012)By: David SchiefflerCategory: Book Reviews “Bully for the Band!”: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band edited by James A. Davis. McFarland, 2012. Paper, ISBN: 0786466863. $49.95. As...
Published: 3/6/13BOMAN: Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri (2011)By: Zach GarrisonCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security by Dennis K. Boman. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 080713693X. $45.00. As a wartime president tasked with...
Published: 2/27/13CODDINGTON: African American Faces of the Civil War (2012)By: Glenn David BrasherCategory: Book Reviews African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album edited by Ronald S. Coddington. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 142140625X. $29.95. When the movie Glory debut in 1989 it was...
Published: 2/27/13SIMPSON, SEARS, SHEEHAN-DEAN (eds.): The Civil War: The First Year (2011)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War: The First Year As Told By Those Who Lived It edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean. The Library of America, First Edition, 2011....
Published: 2/20/13MOAT: Killing Lincoln (2013)By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Killing Lincoln (2013) directed by Adrian Moat. Length: 120 minutes. Premiere: February 17, 2013 (National Geographic Channel). The reviewer sits down on the couch. She picks up the remote control. It...
Published: 2/13/13WILLIAMS: My Old Confederate Home (2010)By: Samuel B. McGuireCategory: Book Reviews My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans by Rusty Williams. University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0813125820. $34.95. Since Bell Irvin Wiley published The Life of...
Published: 2/6/13DESJARDIN (ed.): Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters (2012)By: Thom BassettCategory: Book Reviews Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War edited by Thomas Desjardin. Osprey Publishing, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1849085595. $25.95. This collection of documents...
Published: 1/30/13MASUR: Lincoln’s Hundred Days (2012)By: Stephen BerryCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by Louis P. Masur. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674066901. $29.95. “The Halls of Congress are like a...