Books and Discussions
Published: 6/25/14
SPARKS: Where the Negroes Are Masters (2013)
Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks. Harvard University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0674724879. $29.95. As plantation owners sold...
Published: 6/18/14
VARNEY: General Grant and the Rewriting of History (2013)
General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War by Frank P. Varney. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 1611211182....
Published: 6/11/14
QUARSTEIN: Big Bethel (2011)
Big Bethel: The First Battle by John V. Quarstein. The History Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1609493540. $19.99. Historians of the Civil War have traditionally questioned the significance of the first combat...
Published: 6/11/14
COBB, HICKS & HOLT: Battle of Big Bethel (2013)
Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia by J. Michael Cobb, Edward B. Hicks, and Wythe Holt. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211166. $27.95. Within weeks of...
Published: 6/4/14
RACINE: Living a Big War in a Small Place (2013)
Living a Big War in a Small Place: Spartanburg, South Carolina during the Confederacy by Philip N. Racine. University of South Carolina Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1611172977. $21.95. As the title...
Published: 5/28/14
MINGUS: Confederate General William “Extra Billy” Smith (2013)
Confederate General William “Extra Billy” Smith: From Virginia’s Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat by Scott L. Mingus, Sr. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211298. $29.95. As the nickname for which he became...
Published: 5/21/14
COHEN: Reconstructing the Campus (2012)
Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War by Michael David Cohen. University of Virginia Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 9780813933177. $45.00. Reconstructing the Campus examines the effect of the Civil...
Published: 5/21/14
REINHART (ed.): Yankee Dutchmen under Fire (2013)
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire: Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry edited by Joseph R. Reinhart. Kent State University Press, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 1606351761. $45.00. Joseph R. Reinhart’s new volume...
Published: 5/14/14
MARTEN: America’s Corporal (2014)
America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace by James Marten. University of Georgia Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 0820343218. $24.95. The cover blurb for America’s Corporal describes the book’s subject, James Tanner, as...
Published: 5/9/14
An Interview with Nicholas Marshall
Our conversation with Nicholas Marshall, an associate professor of history at Marist College and recent author of “The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War,” featured in the March issue...
Published: 5/7/14
MACKOWSKI & WHITE: Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front (2013)
Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 1611211360. $32.95. In Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front,...
Published: 5/7/14
DAVIS & GREENWALT: Bloody Autumn (2014)
Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt. Savas Beatie, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211654. $12.95. Although historians still need to reserve judgment on...
Published: 5/2/14
An Interview with Shauna Devine
Our conversation with Shauna Devine, Visiting Research Fellow in the department of the history of medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University and author of “Learning...
Published: 4/30/14
WOODWARD: Marching Masters (2014)
Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War by Colin Edward Woodward. University of Virginia Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 9780813935416. $39.50. The most controversial aspect of the...
Published: 4/23/14
BLIGHT (ed.): My Bondage and My Freedom (2014)
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass and edited by David W. Blight. Yale University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 030019059X. $13.00. The public domain is a rich and growing trove...
Published: 4/23/14
LUEBKE (ed.): The Story of a Thousand (2011)
The Story of a Thousand, Being a History of the Service of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union, from August 21, 1862, to June 6,...
Published: 4/18/14
An Interview with Michael Adams
Our conversation with Michael Adams, the Regents Professor of History Emeritus at Northern Kentucky University and author of “Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War,” now out with...
Published: 4/15/14
An Interview with Michael Frost Beckner
Our conversation with Michael Frost Beckner, the creator, writer, and executive producer of “To Appomattox,” an exciting new miniseries event. In this interview, Beckner details the history of this project...