Published: 4/18/12DELBLANCO: The Abolitionist Imagination (2012)By: Michael FellmanCategory: Book Reviews The Abolitionist Imagination (The Alexis De Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics) by Andrew Delblanco. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674064445. $24.95. This call and response volume grew from the Alexis...
Published: 4/18/12BARNHART: Albert Taylor Bledsoe (2011)By: Benjamin CloydCategory: Book Reviews Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause by Terry A. Barnhart. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807137243. $42.50. Terry Barnhart’s intriguing biography...
Published: 4/11/12LOWRY: Drinking Patterns in the Civil War (2011)By: Sean VanattaCategory: Book Reviews Irish and German Whiskey and Beer: Drinking Patterns in the Civil War by Thomas P. Lowry. CreateSpace, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1463648987. $9.95. In his General Orders of February 4, 1862, General...
Published: 4/4/12STOKER: The Grand Design (2010)By: Lorien FooteCategory: Book Reviews The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald Stoker. Oxford University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0195373057. $27.95. In The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, Donald Stoker...
Published: 4/4/12GALLMAN (ed.): A Tour of Reconstruction (2011)By: Amy Murrell TaylorCategory: Book Reviews A Tour of Reconstruction: Travel Letters of 1875 edited by J. Matthew Gallman. The University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0813134242. $35.00. Anna Dickinson got right to the point during...
Published: 3/28/12INSCOE (ed.): The Civil War in GeorgiaBy: Keith MuchowskiCategory: Book Reviews The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion edited by John C. Inscoe. University of Georgia Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0820339814. $22.95. In 1998 leaders of the Georgia Humanities...
Published: 3/21/12FULTON: The Reconstruction of Mark Twain (2010)By: John C. InscoeCategory: Book Reviews The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature by Joe B. Fulton. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807136913. $34.95. As...
Published: 3/14/12HIRSCH & VAN HAFTEN: Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason (2010)By: Brian DirckCategory: Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch & Dan Van Haften. Savas Beatie, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 1932714898. $34.95. Original ideas about Abraham Lincoln are uncommon. Given the ever-growing...
Published: 3/14/12HARRIS: Lincoln and the Border States (2011)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union by William C. Harris. University of Kansas Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 070061804X. $34.95. Hard as it might be to imagine, William C. Harris’s...
Published: 3/7/12MAGNESS & PAGE: Colonization After Emancipation (2011)By: Earl J. HessCategory: Book Reviews Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page. University of Missouri Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0826219098. $34.95. Abraham Lincoln’s persistent interest...