Category: Book Reviews
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…
Around the Web June 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This was a great month for Civil War and Reconstruction social media. The first video in my lineup this month includes a half hour segment…
Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War National Park Service Handbook
A popularly written book on immigrants in the war is Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War (2015). This book is published by the…
“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…
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