Book Reviews

The digital home of book reviews and author interviews—and your source of the most up-to-date information on all things Civil War literature

Published: 9/28/11

1861: The Civil War Awakening (2011)

By: A. Wilson Greene

Category: Book Reviews

Adam Goodheart’s much heralded 1861: The Civil War Awakening is an eloquent, innovative, and deeply researched collection of chapter-length vignettes that surveys a variety of events at the outset of our...

Published: 9/16/11

A few words on The Bookshelf

By: Matthew C. Hulbert

Category: 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: 9/16/11

The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War (2010)

By: Kevin Krause

Category: Book Reviews

Since the turn toward social and cultural history in the 1960s and 1970s, many academic institutions have relegated military history to the virtual back burner of “serious” scholarly endeavors. Military...

Published: 9/16/11

Connecticut in the American Civil War (2011)

By: Peter C. Luebke

Category: Book Reviews

The Civil War Centennial saw the publication of histories of state participation in the Civil War. Now, with the approach of the sesquicentennial, it appears as if a new batch...