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Tom Watson Brown Award for Best Civil War Book Goes to “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War”

The Society of Civil War Historians announced that Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is the recipient of the 2025 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. Dr. Fields-Black…

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Wiley-Silver Prize Awarded to Cecily Zander for The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era

Cecily Zander, an Assistant Professor of History at Texas Woman’s University, has won the Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book by a scholar on…

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Two Civil War Books Win Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and History

On May 5 the announcement came of Pulitzer Prizes. Two books largely dealing with the Civil War, won awards. The winner for Fiction was James…

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Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke

Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke published by Louisiana State University Press (2022) Note: This page is…

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Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,

This month the 2025 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute was awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River…

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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families by Judith Giesberg

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families by Judith Giesberg published by Simon & Schuster (2025). Judith Giesberg…

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Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III

Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III published by LSU Press…

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Civil War Talk Radio on Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of Americas Largest Emancipation

Gerry at Civil War Talk Radio has a thought provoking with Bennett Parten, the author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of…

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Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur and Elizabeth Clarke

Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur and Elizabeth Clarke published by University of North…

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Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh

Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh published by Kent State University Press (2024) is an interesting biography…

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