Category: Book Reviews
“The Underground Railroad” Miniseries Reviewed by the New York Times
Amazon Prime has made a mini-series out of Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad” that premieres today on its streaming service and the New York Times…
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur published by W.W. Norton (2021) One of my…
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine published by Simon & Schuster (March 2, 2021). Older readers remember that in…
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra published by Liveright 448 pages (2020). Long before the modern field of Civil War Memory…
New Book by Kate Masur on “America’s First Civil Rights Movement” Reviewed by NY Times
The new book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction by historian Kate Masur got an extremely favorable…
Historian Kate Masur Giving Free Virtual Talk on the Fight for Civil Rights from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Hisotrian Kate Masur is giving a free virtual talk on her new book. You can find out how to sign-up and attend in this info…
Wall Street Journal Reviews New Book on Thad Stevens
Fergus M. Bordewich reviews Bruce Levine’s new biography Thaddeus Stevens in today’s Wall Street Journal. Bordewich is himself an expert on the Congresses that Stevens…
Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song Edited by Chris Mackowski
Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song Edited by Chris Mackowski, published by Southern Illinois University Press (2020) $26.50 paperback. One of…
Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule
Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule published by St. Martin’s Publishing (2021). West Point History Professor Ty Seidule had just finished a…
Best 2020 Books on Black History of Civil War and Reconstruction Eras
Black Perspectves, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), asked its editors and bloggers to come up with a list of the…
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