Published: 11/2/22ESCOTT: Black Suffrage (2022)By: Ruth WhiteCategory: Book Reviews Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott. University of Virginia Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813948171. $39.50. Paul Escott’s Black Suffrage focuses on Northern attitudes towards Black rights in the immediate...
Published: 10/26/22POTTER, HANNA, ALDERMAN, CARTER, BRIGHT & BUTLER (eds.): Remembering Enslavement (2022)By: Nick SaccoCategory: Book Reviews Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum edited by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler. University of Georgia...
Published: 10/19/22CONNER: James Montgomery (2022)By: Colin Edward WoodwardCategory: Book Reviews James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior by Robert C. Conner. Casemate, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1636241425. $34.95. In one of the many memorable scenes in the 1989 film Glory, James Montgomery (played convincingly by...
Published: 10/17/22FRYE: September Suspense (2012)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews September Suspense: Lincoln’s Union in Peril by Dennis E. Frye. Antietam Rest Publishing, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0985411902. $27.95. Close students of Civil War military history are familiar with the long career...
Published: 10/12/22BURROWS & KEATING (eds.): Yours Affectionately, Osgood (2022)By: Keith AltavillaCategory: Book Reviews Yours Affectionately, Osgood: Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy’s Letters Home from the Civil War, 1862-1865 edited by Sarah Tracy Burrows and Ryan W. Keating. Kent State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1606354407....
Published: 10/5/22DALY: The War after the War (2022)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly. University of Georgia Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820361901. $24.95. John Patrick Daly opens The War after the War with...
Published: 9/28/22BERRY: Count the Dead (2022)By: Mark S. SchantzCategory: Book Reviews Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469667522. $17.95. This little book packs...
Published: 9/21/22PINHEIRO, JR: The Families’ Civil War (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. University of Georgia Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8203-6196-3. $26.95. Chasing the faint archival traces made...
Published: 9/14/22COWIE: When Hell Came to Sharpsburg (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and Its Impact on the Civilians Who Called It Home by Steven Cowie. Foreword by Dennis E. Frye. Savas Beatie, 2022. Cloth,...
Published: 9/7/22KNUDSEN: James Longstreet and the American Civil War (2022)By: A.J. BlaylockCategory: Book Reviews James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next Warby Harold M. Knudsen. Savas Beatie, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611214758. $32.95. James Longstreet and the American...