Published: 9/16/12BURNS (director): Death and the Civil WarBy: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews American Experience: Death and the Civil War written and directed by Ric Burns. Arlington, VA. Length: 120 Minutes. Premiere: September 18, 2012, on PBS. The camera pans across a photograph as...
Published: 9/12/12MCPHERSON: War on the Waters (2012)By: Barbara Brooks TomblinCategory: Book Reviews War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835889. $35.00. War on the Waters: The Union &...
Published: 9/5/12LEVIN: Remembering the Battle of the Crater (2012)By: Caroline E. JanneyCategory: Book Reviews Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder by Kevin M. Levin. University of Kentucky Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0813136105. $35.00. In early November 1903, nearly 20,000 people gathered in...
Published: 8/29/12WILLIAMS & BURKHIMER (eds.): The Mary Lincoln Enigma (2012)By: Louis P. MasurCategory: Book Reviews The Mary Lincoln Enigma: Historians on America’s Most Controversial First Lady edited by Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0809331241. $32.95. On September 24,...
Published: 8/22/12NELSON: Ruin Nation (2012)By: Edward L. AyersCategory: Book Reviews Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Megan Kate Nelson. University of Georgia Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0820342513. $69.95. For the last quarter century scholars have worked to recover an...
Published: 8/15/12DIRCK: Lincoln and the Constitution (2012)By: Elizabeth D. LeonardCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Constitution by Brian R. Dirck. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0809331179. $19.95. In his contribution to Southern Illinois University Press’s “Concise Lincoln Library” series, historian Brian...
Published: 8/8/12SARNA & MENDELSOHN (eds.): Jews and the Civil War (2011)By: Daniel KotzinCategory: Book Reviews Jews and the Civil War: A Reader edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn. New York University Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0814771130. $24.00. The Jewish experience during the Civil War...
Published: 8/1/12NEWMAN & MUELLER (eds.): Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia (2011)By: Kristen C. BrillCategory: Book Reviews Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love edited by Richard Newman and James Mueller. Louisiana State University Press, 2011....
Published: 8/1/12CURRAN (ed.): John Dooley’s Civil War (2011)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews John Dooley’s Civil War: An Irish American’s Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment edited by Robert E. Curran. University of Tennessee Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1572338229. $59.00. For years, historians...
Published: 7/25/12WILLS: George Henry Thomas (2012)By: Wayne HsiehCategory: Book Reviews George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel by Brian Steel Wills. University of Kansas Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0700618414. $39.95. While historians of the American Civil War have by no means...