Books and Discussions
Published: 1/14/15
MURRAY: On a Great Battlefield (2014)
On a Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2013 by Jennifer M. Murray. University of Tennessee Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1621900535. $49.00. How many people,...
Published: 1/9/15
An Interview with Don Doyle
Our conversation with Don Doyle, the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the recent author of “The Cause of All Nations: An International History of...
Published: 1/7/15
RAFUSE: Manassas (2014)
Manassas: A Battlefield Guide by Ethan S. Rafuse. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0803236431. $21.95. Ethan S. Rafuse’s Manassas: A Battlefield Guide is a latest volume in the University of Nebraska...
Published: 1/7/15
GWYNNE: Rebel Yell (2014)
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne. Scribner, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1451673289. $35.00. Let me get right to the point: very few readers of The Civil War...
Published: 12/31/14
WILLIAMS: Prudence Crandall’s Legacy (2014)
Prudence Crandall’s Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education by Donald E. Williams, Jr. Wesleyan University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0819574701. $35.00. Donald E....
Published: 12/31/14
WARSHAUER (ed.): Inside Connecticut and the Civil War (2014)
Inside Connecticut and the Civil War: Essays on One State’s Struggles edited by Matthew Warshauer. Wesleyan University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-81957396-4. $27.95. In his brisk introduction, editor Matthew Warshauer applauds...
Published: 12/24/14
WHITE: Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale (2013)
Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863 by William Lee White. Savas Beatie, 2013. Paper, IBSN: 978-1611211580. $12.95 The Battle of Chickamauga ranks as the second...
Published: 12/24/14
DAVIS: Music Along the Rapidan (2014)
Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia by James A. Davis. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0803245099. $45.00. In the course of...
Published: 12/19/14
An Interview with James Still
Our conversation with James Still, a playwright whose most recent play “The Widow Lincoln” will debut at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. The play runs from January 23 to February...
Published: 12/17/14
MOORE & MOORE: Collaborators for Emancipation (2014)
Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy by William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore. University of Illinois Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0252038464. $38.00. For a man with melancholic tendencies,...
Published: 12/12/14
An Interview with Anne Sarah Rubin (2014)
Our conversation with Anne Sarah Rubin, an Associate Professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and recent author of “Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and...
Published: 12/10/14
GLEESON & LEWIS (eds.): The Civil War as Global Conflict (2014)
The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611173253. $49.95....
Published: 12/5/14
An Interview with Lesley Gordon
Our conversation with Lesley Gordon, Professor of History at the University of Akron and author of “A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War,” published by LSU Press. In this...
Published: 12/3/14
MALANOWSKI: Commander Will Cushing (2014)
Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War by Jamie Malanowski. W.W. Norton, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-393-24089-4. $26.95. William B. Cushing is no longer a household name, even among students...
Published: 12/3/14
LEIGH: Trading with the Enemy (2014)
Trading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During the American Civil War by Philip Leigh. Westholme Publishing, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1594161995. $26.00. Philip Leigh, an independent scholar and frequent contributor to...
Published: 11/26/14
DONOHOE (ed.): The Printer’s Kiss (2014)
The Printer’s Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family edited by Patricia A. Donohoe. Kent State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1606352168. $39.95. This oddly...
Published: 11/26/14
GRANT: The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road (2014)
The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South by H. Roger Grant. Indiana University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0253011817. $40.00. On July 4, 1836, three hundred...
Published: 11/21/14
An Interview with Stephen Cushman
Our conversation with Stephen Cushman, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia and recent author of “Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped...