History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Civil War Times Book Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Civil War Book Reviews http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-book-reviews.htm http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-book-reviews.htm#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:39:18 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684638 From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, by Randall Fuller (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America, by Davis S. Reynolds (Norton, 2010)

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]]> http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-book-reviews.htm/feed 1 Israel Richardson at Antietam http://www.historynet.com/israel-richardson-at-antietam.htm http://www.historynet.com/israel-richardson-at-antietam.htm#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:43:13 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682165 A Rising Star Struck Down in His Prime
Until Antietam: The Life and Letters of Major General Israel B. Richardson, U.S. Army, by Jack C. Mason, Southern Illinois University Press

Up to the moment he was mortally wound­ed along Antietam's …

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The world of Civil War women has been enriched over the past decade by a bounty of significant …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/northern-women-and-the-travails-of-war-april-2010.htm/feed 0 Sowing Discontent, Reaping Retribution: December/January 2010 http://www.historynet.com/sowing-discontent-reaping-retribution-december-2009january-2010.htm http://www.historynet.com/sowing-discontent-reaping-retribution-december-2009january-2010.htm#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:06:40 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681634 http://www.historynet.com/sowing-discontent-reaping-retribution-december-2009january-2010.htm/feed 0 ‘He Always Went With Us Into the Fight’:October/November 2009 http://www.historynet.com/%e2%80%98he-always-went-with-us-into-the-fight%e2%80%99octobernovember-2009.htm http://www.historynet.com/%e2%80%98he-always-went-with-us-into-the-fight%e2%80%99octobernovember-2009.htm#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:03:36 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681633 http://www.historynet.com/%e2%80%98he-always-went-with-us-into-the-fight%e2%80%99octobernovember-2009.htm/feed 0 Three Views of the Lincoln-Douglass Dynamic: August/September 2009 http://www.historynet.com/three-views-of-the-lincoln-douglass-dynamic-augustseptember-2009.htm http://www.historynet.com/three-views-of-the-lincoln-douglass-dynamic-augustseptember-2009.htm#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:20 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681632 http://www.historynet.com/three-views-of-the-lincoln-douglass-dynamic-augustseptember-2009.htm/feed 0 Vicksburg: From Mint Juleps to Bomb Bursts http://www.historynet.com/vicksburg-from-mint-juleps-to-bomb-bursts.htm http://www.historynet.com/vicksburg-from-mint-juleps-to-bomb-bursts.htm#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:53:09 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681631 Vicksburg 1863, by Winston Groom, Alfred A. Knopf

Winston Groom is a first-rate spinner of yarns, and like the tales of his most famous fictional character, Forrest Gump, his accounts seamlessly transport readers into the story. Vicksburg 1863 is …

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THE DEVIL'S DUEThe Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders, by Edward E. Leslie, Random House, $27.50.

Quantrill's War: The Life and Times of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865, by Duane Schultz, …

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