Published: 12/11/23The Best Civil War Books of 2023By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Featured The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2023 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War...
Published: 11/1/23STRALEY: A Constant Reminder to All (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews A Constant Reminder to All: Stonewall Jackson, the Lost Cause, and the Making of a West Virginia Idol by Steven Cody Straley. 35th Star Publishing, 2022. Paper, IBSN: 979-8-9865993-5-9. $15.95....
Published: 10/30/23The Books That Built Me: John HennessyBy: John HennessyCategory: Featured The contruction of my historiographical self began on a rainy afternoon in fifth grade. There was no chance for outdoor romping, or venturing through the deluge to a friend’s house...
Published: 10/11/23SHEA: Union General (2023)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West by William L. Shea. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1640125186. $34.95. William L. Shea is a prolific scholar of...
Published: 9/25/23Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 8By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: Featured DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University Soldiers of the Texas Brigade Putting this series together has been enjoyable but also frustrating. None of the retrospective literature created by soldiers in the...
Published: 9/20/23HARRIS: Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered by William C. Harris. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-7006-3533-7. $44.95. Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important...
Published: 8/9/23GREENIDGE: The Grimkes (2022)By: John Frederick BellCategory: Book Reviews The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge. Liveright, 2022. ISBN 978-1-324-09454-8. $32.50. Among the leading African American professionals at the turn of the twentieth century...