Category: Book Reviews
Manisha Sinha Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for Work on Reconstruction Era
Manisha Sinha, history professor at the University of Connecticut, was one of five history scholars selected for Guggenheim Fellowships for 2022. She will use the…
Kate Masur’s Excellent Book Pulitzer Finalist: “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction,”
Although the Pulitzer Prize for history went to a book on 18th Century Native American relations with English colonists and another on Cuba, Kate Masur’s…
Ted Widmer Gives Strong Recommendation of John Avlon’s New Lincoln and the Fight for Peace in WaPo
Ted Widmer, professor at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, has a review in The Washington Post of John Avlon’s new book…
Eric Foner Reviews New Book on How Union Financed the Civil War By Roger Lowenstein
The New York Times has a very favorable review by Eric Foner of a new book on the financing of the Civil War. WAYS AND…
Around the Web March 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Blogs Hulk Lawyer has been a sensation over the last month. He “is” an invented “Black Confederate” who debuted at a Board of Education meetings….
NY Times Reviews New Novel on the United States Colored Troops
The New York Times has a review of a new novel that tells the story of a real unit in the United States Colored Troops….
Caroline E. Janney Author of Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox Wins 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Caroline Janney is the recipient of the 2022 Lincoln Prize. Here is my own review of this book. According to the Gilder Lehrman Institute: Janney’s Ends…
NY Times Reviews New Book on Split Between William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
The New York Times reviews the new book THE COLOR OF ABOLITION: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation by Linda…
Around the Web February 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This has been a strong month for history blogging. There are also good book reviews and podcasts as well. Blogs Nick Sacco writes about historian…
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…
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