Category: Book Reviews
NY Times Reviews Two Books: Confederate Widows and Public Funerals
The New York Times has two reviews this week on death during and right after the Civil War. Thomas Ricks wrote the article, and here…
NY Times Reviews HEARTS TORN ASUNDER: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina by Ernest Dollar
The New York Times reviews a new Savas Beattie book on the impact of the trauma of the last months of the Civil War in…
Book Review: Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War
Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War edited by Carol A. Shively is a colorful and interesting introduction to the participation of Asian immigrants…
“West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire” Wins Wiley-Silver Prize
Kevin Waite’s book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire has won the 2022 Wiley-Silver Prize for Best First Book in Civil…
Kate Masur’s “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction” Wins Nau Prize in Civil War History
Kat Masur’s fine new book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction was awarded the prestigious 2022 John…
Essay in The Nation on W.E.B. DuBois’s Class Conflict Analysis in His Classic “Black Reconstruction”
Gerald Horne has an essay in the latest issue of the progressive magazine The Nation on W.E.B. DuBois’s groundbreaking book Black Reconstruction. The new edition…
NY Times Reviews “My Old Kentucky Home” New Book on Old Song
Rick Bragg reviews the new book out on a song most of hear once a year when the Kentucky Derby is run; MY OLD KENTUCKY…
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…
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