History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 25 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 My Thoughts Be Bloody http://www.historynet.com/my-thoughts-be-bloody.htm http://www.historynet.com/my-thoughts-be-bloody.htm#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:57:23 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683441 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/my-thoughts-be-bloody.htm/feed 0 The Civil War in the New York Times http://www.historynet.com/the-civil-war-in-the-new-york-times.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-civil-war-in-the-new-york-times.htm#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:52:59 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683135 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-civil-war-in-the-new-york-times.htm/feed 0 Soldiering to Citizenship in the Civil War http://www.historynet.com/soldiering-to-citizenship-in-the-civil-war.htm http://www.historynet.com/soldiering-to-citizenship-in-the-civil-war.htm#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:54:23 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682505 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/soldiering-to-citizenship-in-the-civil-war.htm/feed 1 At Gettysburg with the Lousiana Tigers http://www.historynet.com/at-gettysburg-with-the-lousiana-tigers.htm http://www.historynet.com/at-gettysburg-with-the-lousiana-tigers.htm#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:21:24 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682291 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/at-gettysburg-with-the-lousiana-tigers.htm/feed 0 Andrew Johnson Impeached http://www.historynet.com/andrew-johnson-impeached.htm http://www.historynet.com/andrew-johnson-impeached.htm#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:18:55 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681843 http://www.historynet.com/andrew-johnson-impeached.htm/feed 2 Lincoln’s Political Generals http://www.historynet.com/lincolns-political-generals.htm http://www.historynet.com/lincolns-political-generals.htm#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:41:24 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681833 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/lincolns-political-generals.htm/feed 1 Digging deeply into the earthworks at Petersburg http://www.historynet.com/digging-deeply-into-the-earthworks-at-petersburg.htm http://www.historynet.com/digging-deeply-into-the-earthworks-at-petersburg.htm#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:43:24 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681433 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/digging-deeply-into-the-earthworks-at-petersburg.htm/feed 0 Here’s evidence that Abraham Lincoln was as good as his words http://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-biography.htm http://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-biography.htm#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:42:20 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681264 http://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-biography.htm/feed 2 A not-so-prim dissection of the war from across the pond http://www.historynet.com/a-not-so-prim-dissection-of-the-war-from-across-the-pond.htm http://www.historynet.com/a-not-so-prim-dissection-of-the-war-from-across-the-pond.htm#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:30:37 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681263 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/a-not-so-prim-dissection-of-the-war-from-across-the-pond.htm/feed 0 A search for clues to what compelled the men who went to war http://www.historynet.com/a-search-for-clues-to-what-compelled-the-men-who-went-to-war.htm http://www.historynet.com/a-search-for-clues-to-what-compelled-the-men-who-went-to-war.htm#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:15:46 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681262 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 …

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