Published: 1/25/12GINGRICH (et al): The Battle of the Crater: A NovelBy: Craig A. WarrenCategory: Book Reviews The Battle of the Crater: A Novel by Newt Gingrich, Williiam R. Forstchen, and Albert S. Hanser. Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0312607105. $27.99. In recent months, Republican presidential candidate...
Published: 1/18/12BROWN (ed.): Remixing the Civil WarBy: Nina SilberCategory: Book Reviews Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial edited by Thomas J. Brown. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1421402505. $50.00. Who could have anticipated that, by the early...
Published: 1/16/12Remembering Race and Reunion: Ten Years LaterBy: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Remembering Race and Reunion: Ten Years Later There are four copies of David W. Blight’s magisterial Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory on the bookshelves lining my study, each...
Published: 1/11/12SMITH: The Enemy Within (2011)By: Mark A. LauseCategory: Book Reviews The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North by Michael Thomas Smith. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0813931274. $35.00. Corruption in government and business remains...
Published: 1/11/12KNIGHT: Confederate Invention (2011)By: KNIGHT: Confederate Invention (2011)Category: Book Reviews Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors by H. Jackson Knight. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807137626. $55.00. Students of the...
Published: 1/11/12RABLE: God’s Almost Chosen Peoples (2010)By: Abigail CooperCategory: Book Reviews God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807834262. $35.00. “I shall be...
Published: 1/11/12DEMPSEY: Michigan and the Civil War (2011)By: Brian Allen DrakeCategory: Book Reviews Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice by Jack Dempsey. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1609491734. $21.99. The North may have won the Civil War,...
Published: 1/4/12GAUGHAN: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2011)By: Kevin M. LevinCategory: Book Reviews The Last Battle of the Civil War: United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883 by Anthony J. Gaughan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 080713774X. $42.50. Americans were recently shocked...
Published: 12/28/11MAURO: A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia (2009)By: Angela Esco ElderCategory: Book Reviews A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia: The Civil War Album of Laura Ratcliffe by Charles V. Mauro. The History Press, 2009. Paper. ISBN: 1596297433. $21.99. During the Civil War, Confederate brigadier general...
Published: 12/21/11PETERSEN: Quantrill at Lawrence (2011)By: A. James FullerCategory: Book Reviews Quantrill at Lawrence: The Untold Story by Paul Petersen. Pelican Publishing, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1589809092. $26.95. Quantrill at Lawrence: The Untold Story is a well-written and provocative book that ultimately falls short...