Published: 7/18/12ARDEN & POWELL: Letters From the Storm (2010)By: Ivy Farr McIntyreCategory: Book Reviews Letters From the Storm: The Intimate Civil War Letters of Lt. J. A. H. Foster by Linda Foster Arden and Walter L. Powell. Mechling Bookbindery, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0984140018. $29.95. The 150th...
Published: 7/18/12HUGHES & RUSHING (eds.): Refugitta of Richmond (2011)By: Elizabeth H. TurnerCategory: Book Reviews Refugitta of Richmond: The Wartime Recollections, Grave and Gay, of Constance Cary Harris edited by Nathaniel C. Hughes Jr. and S. Kittrell Rushing. University of Tennessee Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1572337478....
Published: 7/11/12HOLZER, SYMONDS, & WILLIAMS (eds.): The Lincoln Assassination (2010)By: Angela M. ZombekCategory: Book Reviews The Lincoln Assassination: Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, & Frank J. Williams. Fordham University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN:0823232260 $29.00. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on Good Friday in...
Published: 7/11/12EMERSON: Giant in the Shadows (2012)By: Harold HolzerCategory: Book Reviews Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln by Jason Emerson. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0809330555. $39.95. Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son has long been a...
Published: 7/2/12BRADY: War Upon the Land (2012)By: Jack E. DavisCategory: Book Reviews War Upon the Land: Military Strategies and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War by Lisa M. Brady. University of Georgia Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0820342491 $24.95. Lisa...
Published: 6/27/12GILPIN: John Brown Still Lives! (2011)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews John Brown Still Lives!: America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change by R. Blakeslee Gilpin. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835013. $30.00. The catalysts, conduct, context, and...
Published: 6/20/12FLECHE: The Revolution of 1861 (2012)By: Barbara GannonCategory: Book Reviews The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict by Andre Fleche. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835234. $39.95. Perhaps the oldest and...
Published: 6/20/12DUNKELMAN: Marching With Sherman (2012)By: Thom BassettCategory: Book Reviews Marching With Sherman: Through Georgia and the Carolinas With the 154th New York by Mark H. Dunkelman. Louisiana State University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807143782. $39.95. By now most accounts of...
Published: 6/13/12STERNHELL: Routes of War (2012)By: Aaron Sheehan-DeanCategory: Book Reviews Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South by Yael A. Sternhell. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674064423. $49.95. Some changes in historical interpretation are driven by...
Published: 6/6/12FELLMAN: Views from the Dark Side of American History (2011)By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Views from the Dark Side of American History by Michael Fellman. Louisisana State University Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0807139025. $22.50. And there it was. The question I knew she would eventually...