Published: 1/23/13HESS: The Civil War in the West (2012)By: Jim DownsCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835420. The Civil War...
Published: 1/23/13FOOTE: The Gentlemen and the Roughs (2010)By: James Hill Welborn IIICategory: Book Reviews The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army by Lorien Foote. New York University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0814727904. $39.00. Positing the Union Army as northern...
Published: 1/16/13How We Need to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Lincoln and Django Unchained (2013)By: Christian McWhirterCategory: Book Reviews How We Need to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Lincoln and Django Unchained Alright . . . historians, history buffs, and anyone who cares about history—take a deep breath and repeat after...
Published: 1/9/13CECELSKI: The Fire of Freedom (2012)By: Donald R. ShafferCategory: Book Reviews The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway & the Slaves’ Civil War by David S. Cecelski. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835668. $30.00. A difficult scholarly challenge is rescuing...
Published: 1/2/13TARANTINO: Django Unchained (2012)By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Django Unchained directed by Quentin Tarantino. Length: 166 minutes. Premiere: December 25, 2012. That Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is the most effective depiction of American slavery in the recent history of...
Published: 12/26/12DAVIS: A Taste For War (2011)By: William KurtzCategory: Book Reviews A Taste For War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray by William C. Davis. University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Paperback, ISBN: 0803235224 $19.95. Historians have long tried to capture...
Published: 12/18/12HERDEGEN: The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory (2012)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats from Appomattox to Bull Run and Thereafter by Lance Herdegen. Savas Beatie, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211069. $39.95. Few infantry units in...
Published: 12/12/12ARENSON: The Great Heart of the Republic (2011)By: Megan L. BeverCategory: Book Reviews The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War by Adam Arenson. Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674052889. $36.50. Adam Arenson’s engaging study of mid-nineteenth-century St....
Published: 12/10/12Holiday Civil War Trivia Contest: WinnerBy: Matthew HulbertCategory: Book Reviews Trivia Question: A skirmish at this place on October 29, 1862, is widely regarded as the first time black troops in the Union Blue engaged in combat during the Civil War. Correct...
Published: 12/5/12CODDINGTON: Faces of the Civil War (2012)By: Allen C. GuelzoCategory: Book Reviews Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories by Ronald S. Coddington. The Johns Hopkins University Press, reprinted in 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0801878764. $31.95. Ron Coddington’s Faces...