Category: Book Reviews
First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling
First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling published by Savas Beatie (2021) Elmer Ellsworth is…
Kansas School District Blocks Circulation of Book on Reconstruction Era Klan
The Goddard School District in Kansas has been accused of book banning after it announced that 29 books would no longer be allowed to circulate…
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight Over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A Blair
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight Over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A Blair published by University…
The New Yorker on the Genius of “The Red Badge of Courage”
Before there was The Killer Angels or Gone With the Wind, the most popular novel of the Civil War was Red Badge of Courage. Many…
Around the Web October 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This is what I liked best last month. Blogs Fredericksburg National Park Historian John Hennessy retired in September and he got a lot of tributes…
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney University of North Carolina Press (2021) Have you ever wondered…
Three Books on Civil War Era Themes Nominated for the Nonfiction National Book Award
The National Book Award is one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for literature and nonfiction. This year three books set in the Civil War…
Around the Web September 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Early August saw very little new on Civil War/Reconstruction social media. Maybe it was shock at the emergence of Delta. But, by the end of…
WaPo Reviews Robert Levine’s “The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson”
This is the second review by a major newspaper this week of Robert S. Levine’s The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of…
New York Times Reviews The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine
This week, the New York Times reviewed The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine from W.W….
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