Books and Discussions
Published: 4/2/14
DAL LAGO: William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini (2013)
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform by Enrico Dal Lago. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. ISBN: 0807152064. $42.50. Enrico Dal Lago’s oeuvre demonstrates his breadth of...
Published: 4/1/14
An Interview with Chris Wheeler
Our conversation with Chris Wheeler, the writer, producer, and director of “Civil War: The Untold Story,” a new five part mini series premiering on PBS nationwide in April 2014. In...
Published: 3/28/14
An Interview with James Marten
Our conversation with James Marten, chair of the History Department at Marquette University and author of “The Ubiquitous Mr. Tanner,” an article published in the spring 2014 issue of The...
Published: 3/26/14
KREISER: Defeating Lee (2011)
Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Indiana University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0253356164. $34.95. From the slaughter in the West...
Published: 3/19/14
ADAMS: Living Hell (2014)
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War by Michael C.C. Adams. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1421412217. $29.95. There is undoubtedly a turn toward the ‘dark side’...
Published: 3/12/14
LIVELY: Calamity at Chancellorsville (2013)
Calamity at Chancellorsville: The Wounding and Death of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson by Mathew W. Lively. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211387. $27.50. Calamity at Chancellorsville delves into the series of...
Published: 3/12/14
GLEESON: The Green and the Gray (2013)
The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America by David T. Gleeson. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1469607565. $35.00. This interesting new book...
Published: 3/7/14
An Interview with Susannah J. Ural
Our interview with Susannah J. Ural, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and recent author of “Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War...
Published: 2/26/14
ASH: The Black Experience in the Civil War South (2013)
The Black Experience in the Civil War South by Stephen V. Ash. Potomac Books, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1612346294. $17.95. Stephen V. Ash’s The Black Experience in the Civil War South is a terrific introduction for...
Published: 2/19/14
EARLE & BURKE (eds.): Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri (2013)
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border edited by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke. University Press of Kansas, 2013. Paper. ISBN: 0700619291. $19.95. July 2013 brought...
Published: 2/12/14
SIMPSON: The Civil War in the East (2013)
The Civil War in the East: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory by Brooks D. Simpson. Potomac Books, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1612346286. $19.95. Scholars, students, and teachers should hail the appearance of Brooks...
Published: 2/7/14
An Interview with Jaime Martinez
Our conversation with Jaime Martinez, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and author of “Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South,” now out...
Published: 2/5/14
McDANIEL: The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery (2013)
The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists & Transatlantic Reform by W. Caleb McDaniel. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0807150185. $48.00. At first glance, Garrisonian...
Published: 1/31/14
An Interview with Megan Kate Nelson and Kevin Levin
Our conversation with Megan Kate Nelson (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Brown University) and Kevin Levin (Instructor, Gann Academy) on their most recent project—co-editing a special issue of Common-Place entitled...
Published: 1/29/14
LAUSE: Price’s Lost Campaign (2011)
Price’s Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri by Mark A. Lause. University of Missouri Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0826219497. $29.95. If the devil is truly in the details, Old Scratch...
Published: 1/24/14
An Interview with Rachel Shelden
Our conversation with Rachel Shelden, an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia College and State University and author of “Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil...
Published: 1/15/14
THOMSON (ed.): We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die (2013)
We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die: The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard, edited by David K. Thomson. University of Tennessee Press, 2013. Cloth,...
Published: 1/14/14
CONROY: Our One Common Country (2014)
Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 by James B. Conroy. Lyons Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 0762778075. $27.95. I suppose that it’s rare to...