Books and Discussions
Published: 11/18/15
HESS: The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta (2015)
The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469622415. $35.00. Earl J. Hess has one of the...
Published: 11/18/15
HARDY: The Capitals of the Confederacy (2015)
The Capitals of the Confederacy: A History by Michael C. Hardy. Arcadia Publishing, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626198876. $19.99. Serving as a nation’s capital city is generally a rare honor—but not in...
Published: 11/13/15
What role did creative marketing play in financing the Civil War?
Wars are expensive, and the Civil War was certainly no exception! We talk with PhD Candidate, Dave Thomson, about how new marketing strategies for bonds helped finance the Civil War.
Published: 11/11/15
SMITH: Home Again (2014)
Home Again: A Civil War Novel by Michael Kenneth Smith. CreateSpace, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1499157093. $13.95. A work of historical fiction set during the Civil War, Home Again follows the lives of two young...
Published: 11/11/15
RAPAPORT: Tobacco and Smoking Among the Blue and Gray (2014)
Tobacco and Smoking Among the Blue and Gray: The Illustrated History of An American Folk-Art Curiosity—The Civil War Soldier’s Tobacco Pipe by Ben Rapaport. Briar Books Press, 2014. Cloth, $65.00. The...
Published: 11/4/15
MARTELLE: The Madman and the Assassin (2015)
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth by Scott Martelle. Chicago Review Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1613730188. $24.95 This...
Published: 11/2/15
Why was the Civil War in the West important?
Published: 10/28/15
HESTER (ed.): A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina (2015)
A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen’s Civil War Journals edited by James Robert Hester. University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611174960. $49.95. The so-called...
Published: 10/21/15
COOK (ed.): A Quiet Corner of the War (2014)
A Quiet Corner of the War: The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862-1863 by Gilbert Claflin and Esther Claflin and edited by Judy Cook. University of...
Published: 10/16/15
What type of combat did most Civil War soldiers face?
Were soldiers more likely to experience gigantic battles like Gettysburg or was the Civil War experience typically smaller in scale? Scott Nesbit and Andrew Fialka, both of the University of...
Published: 10/14/15
MAY: Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics (2013)
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America by Robert E. May. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 978-0521132527. $26.99. For decades, scholars...
Published: 10/7/15
CHANDLER: The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia (2015)
The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia by Ray Chandler. The History Press, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626193444. $19.99. One might not think of northeast Georgia as an ideal...
Published: 10/2/15
How did Civil War women deal with the loss of their husbands?
Angela Elder discusses how widows dealt with the loss of their husbands during and after the Civil War.
Published: 9/30/15
DOWNS: After Appomattox (2015)
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory P. Downs. Harvard University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0674743984. $32.95. When exactly did the Civil War end? This seemingly...
Published: 9/23/15
MYERS: Rebels Against the Confederacy (2014)
Rebels Against the Confederacy: North Carolina’s Unionists by Barton A. Myers. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1107075245. $90.00. Barton Myers’s new study of North Carolina’s unionists during the Civil...
Published: 9/18/15
Would there have been a debate over the Confederate flag 100 years ago?
Our conversation with Dr. Karen Cox, Professor of History at UNC-Charlotte, about whether or not there would have been a debate over the Confederate flag 100 years ago. To learn...
Published: 9/16/15
HUSTON: The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer (2015)
The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America by James L. Huston. Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807159187. $47.50....
Published: 9/9/15
HESS: Civil War Infantry Tactics (2015)
Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness by Earl J. Hess. Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN 978-0807159378. $45.00. Of all the Union generals of the Civil...