Reviews
Jason Emerson |
Published: March 14, 2011 at 9:57 am
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
by Nora Titone
Free Press, 2010, $30
This new book by first-time author Nora Titone is so intrepidly original in its …
Chris Howland |
Published: January 26, 2011 at 3:52 pm
The New York Times Complete Civil War, 1861-1865
Edited by Harold Holzer and Craig L. Symonds
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishing, 2010, $40
It is no stretch to say the New York Times was the nation's most powerful newspaper during …
Susannah Ural |
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:54 am
Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era
by Christian G. Samito,
Cornell University Press, 2010, $39.95
Christian Samito's Becoming American Under Fire is a superb study of the expansion …
Robin Friedman |
Published: April 29, 2010 at 1:21 pm
The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June-July, 1863
By Scott L. Mingus Sr.,
Louisiana State University Press, 2009
The legendary Louisiana Tigers, one of the more feared units in the Army of Northern Virginia, get a welcome and comprehensive …
Peter Cozzens |
Published: January 27, 2010 at 10:18 am
Behind the scenes in the case of a president on trial.
Jason Emerson |
Published: January 26, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Lincoln's Political Generals, by David Work
University of Illinois Press, 2009
Abraham Lincoln made his share of mistakes as commander in chief during the Civil War, but did his politically motivated appointments of nonmilitary men as Union generals help or …
Robert K. Krick |
Published: September 13, 2009 at 8:43 am
In the Trenches at Petersburg:
Field Fortifications & Confederate Defeat
by Earl J. Hess
University of North Carolina
Press, 2009
New biographies that focus on Civil War–era figures inevitably face the dilemma of how to interpret race, politics and equality …
Barton Friedman |
Published: August 12, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Kaplan has done a service to Lincoln scholars and general readers alike by reconstructing Lincoln's self-education, and showing how the books he read and reread may have shaped his mind.
Gordon Berg |
Published: August 12, 2009 at 12:30 pm
America's Civil War: The Operational Battlefield 1861-1863
by Brian Holden Reid
Prometheus Books, 2008
One can read extensively in Civil War historiography and not once come across the word "puerile." Yet Brian Holden Reid, professor of American history and military …
James Hall |
Published: August 12, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn
Princeton University Press, 2008
A Civil War book full of charts, graphs and tables, even when it is combined with intriguing human interest profiles …
Gordon Berg |
Published: August 12, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865
by Ethan S. Rafuse
Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Is it really possible there's anything new to say about Robert E. Lee, who probably has had more written about him than …
Published: August 11, 2009 at 10:58 am
Firebrands of Liberty: The Story of Two Black
Regiments That Changed
the Course of the Civil War
by Stephen V. Ash
W.W. Norton, 2008, $25.95
Seldom does a Civil War story come along today that is historically significant and yet …
Gordon Berg |
Published: August 11, 2009 at 10:53 am
Sherman's March in Myth and Memory
by Edward Caudill and
Paul Ashdown
Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Memory studies are now a recognized discipline within the canon of Civil War historiography, with leading historians Gary Gallagher, David Blight and …
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