Published: 10/19/11WOOD: Near Andersonville (2010)By: Robert BonnerCategory: Book Reviews Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War by Peter H. Wood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 067053206. $18.95. Americans tend to imagine their Civil War through a montage of images....
Published: 10/19/11BYNUM: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010)By: Laura Hepp BradshawCategory: Book Reviews The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. $35.00. “Few histories,” Victoria...
Published: 10/12/11MCCURRY: Confederate Reckoning (2010)By: David K. ThomsonCategory: Book Reviews Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry. Harvard University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0674045890. $35.00. Stephanie McCurry’s latest work offers a welcomed examination of the...
Published: 10/12/11MARTEN: Sing Not War (2011)By: Brian M. JordanCategory: Book Reviews Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America by James Marten. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807834769. $39.95. Civil War...
Published: 10/5/11BERRY (ed.): Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges (2011)By: W. Fitzhugh BrundageCategory: Book Reviews Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges edited by Stephen Berry. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0820341274. $24.95. What we have here is an excellent...
Published: 9/28/11GALLAGHER: The Union War (2011)By: Nicole EtchesonCategory: Book Reviews The Union War by Gary W. Gallagher. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674045620. $27.95. Ken Burns’s Civil War series made famous Rhode Island soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes’s phrase, “All...
Published: 9/28/11GOODHEART: 1861: The Civil War Awakening (2011)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1400040155. $28.85. Adam Goodheart’s much heralded 1861: The Civil War Awakening is an eloquent, innovative, and deeply...
Published: 9/16/11A few words on The BookshelfBy: Matthew C. HulbertCategory: Book Reviews Greetings and welcome to the official digital headquarters of book reviews for The Civil War Monitor. In much the same way that printed editions of the Monitor will attempt to bridge the...
Published: 9/16/11BERTERA & CRAWFORD: The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War (2010)By: Kevin KrauseCategory: Book Reviews The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War by Martin N. Bershera and Kim Crawford. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN 978-0870139734. $44.95. Since the turn towards social...
Published: 9/16/11WARSCHAUER: Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival (2011)By: Peter C. LuebkeCategory: Book Reviews Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival by Matthew Warshauer. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-8195-7138-0. $29.95. The Civil War Centennial saw the publication of histories...