Books and Discussions
Published: 7/21/21
West of Slavery (2021)
A critical intervention in the literature on the Civil War in the West.
Published: 7/14/21
Civil War Richmond (2021)
A "a sharp, well-written, and concise social history" of Virginia’s capital city.
Published: 7/7/21
Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain & Harpers Ferry (2021)
Incisive biographies of 30 Union soldiers.
Published: 6/30/21
A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy (2021)
Review of a "highly recommended" account of the fall of New Orleans.
Published: 6/28/21
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 1: Foundational Works
The first installment of historian Gary W. Gallagher's series on essential books about the Army of Northern Virginia.
Published: 6/23/21
Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama (2021)
Review of a brief history of Alabama's Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines.
Published: 6/16/21
Civil War Supply and Strategy (2020)
Review of another winning book from a prolific historian of the Civil War.
Published: 6/9/21
Embattled Capital (2021)
A review of a title that's more than your run-of-the-mill guidebook.
Published: 6/2/21
Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station (2021)
An "exhaustively researched" history of a neglected period in 1863.
Published: 6/1/21
The Best Books on Civil War Strategy
The literature on Civil War strategy offers a broader understanding of the challenges facing both sides and how they pursued military means to achieve policy ends.
Published: 5/26/21
The Howling Storm (2020)
Review of a welcome new environmental history of the Civil War.
Published: 5/19/21
Imagining Wild Bill (2020)
A "well-written and accessible study of historical memory."
Published: 5/12/21
Christian Citizens (2020)
An important work about the intersection of religion, race, gender, and 19th-century southern politics.
Published: 5/5/21
Whisperwood (2020)
Review of a novel about the valor and courage of a soldier struggling to survive.
Published: 4/29/21
Essential Reading on the Coming of the Civil War
The literature on the coming of the Civil War is more than vast—it is overwhelming. Choosing just a handful of the thousands of books written on the subject—and the dozens...
Published: 4/28/21
The Assault on Fort Blakeley (2021)
Review of a new history of one of Alabama's main coastal defenses.
Published: 4/21/21
The Last Slave Ships (2020)
A fascinating study of the demise of the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Published: 4/14/21
What Though the Field Be Lost (2021)
A collection of poems that are "cerebral" and "dense with literary and historical allusions."