Published: 3/8/23ROTHERA: Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas (2022)By: Chase H. McCarterCategory: Book Reviews Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880 by Evan C. Rothera. Louisiana State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 9780807171479. $50.00. Scholars of the U.S....
Published: 3/2/23CHERVINSKY & COSTELLO (eds.): Mourning the Presidents (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture edited by Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Matthew R. Costello. University of Virginia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8139-4929-1. $29.50. In this accessible and...
Published: 2/23/23ROSSINO: Their Maryland (2021)By: James J. BroomallCategory: Book Reviews Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862 by Alexander B. Rossino. Savas Beatie, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611215571. $32.95. By late September 1862, the soldiers...
Published: 2/22/23KRETZ: Administering Freedom (2022)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau by Dale Kretz. The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469671024. $39.95. Administering Freedom opens by recalling William Baltimore’s interview...
Published: 2/20/23LAFANTASIE (ed.): The Union Forever (2012)By: Matthew NormanCategory: Book Reviews The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War edited by Glenn LaFantasie. University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0813134447. $40.00. We are currently in the midst of a U.S....
Published: 2/15/23WOOD: Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri (2022)By: John SarvelaCategory: Book Reviews Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri by Larry Wood. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467150095. $23.99. In Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri, Larry Wood takes readers into the most...
Published: 2/8/23NEWSOME: Gettysburg’s Southern Front (2022)By: Jonathan M. SteplykCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond by Hampton Newsome. University Press of Kansas, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0700633470. $36.95 Thousands of books have been written about the Gettysburg Campaign,...
Published: 2/1/23WILLIAMS: I Saw Death Coming (2023)By: Jennifer AndrellaCategory: Book Reviews I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1635576634. $30.00. The process of Reconstruction after the...
Published: 1/25/23THORP & ROSSINO: The Tale Untwisted (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee’s Lost Orders by Gene M. Thorp and Alexander B. Rossino. Savas Beatie, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-622-6....
Published: 1/18/23LOWENSTEIN: Ways and Means (2022)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein. Penguin Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 9780735223554. $30.00. Some have characterized economics as the dismal science....