Category: Book Reviews
Around the Web July 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Civil War social media “exploded” (in the words of one participant) at the start of June over a book review on the Emerging Civil War…
NY Times Book Review Podcast Interview With Clint Smith on “How the Word Was Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery”
The first half hour of the New York Times Book Review podcasts is devoted to Clint Smith’s new book on how historic sites interpret slavery,…
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith published by Little Brown (2021). Clint Smith’s…
Kate Masur’s Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement Reviewed by The Nation
Kellie Carter Jackson of Wellesley College reviewed Kate Masur’s Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction in The Nation this…
NY Times Reviews New Book on Justice John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Dissenter from Segregation
The New York Times reviewed the new biography of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan last week. Harlan was “The Great Dissenter of the 19th…
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon Reed published by Liveright (2021) 151 pages. Juneteenth is now widely celebrated. In many places it is a holiday. It…
Book on Overthrow of Reconstruction in Wilmington Wins Pulitzer and Book on Civil War in Southwest Named Finalist
A book about the late ending of Reconstruction in Wilmington, North Carolina received a Pulitzer Prize on Friday and another book on the Civil War…
David Reynolds Wins Lincoln Prize for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
From the sponsors of the Lincoln Prize: Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has named David S. Reynolds, author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln…
Francis Parkman Prize Goes to New Work on Nat Turner
The prestigious Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually by the Society of American Historians to a nonfiction work of history on an American theme published…
Book Roundup of Some of the Best Reconstruction and Race Books of the Pandemic Year
Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just…
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