Category: Book Reviews
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….
The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison by David L. Keller
The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison by David L. Keller published by The History Press (2015) 259 pp. $22.20 Hardcover, $15.22 Paperback,…
I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison by David R. Bush
I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison by David R. Bush published by University Press of Florida (2011)…
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd published by LSU Press (2010) 289 pages 410,000 soldiers were held…
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield published by Savas Beatie (2020) 192 pages Hellmira: The Union’s…