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University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy

University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy published by Oxford University Press…

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America Kindle by Heather Cox Richardson

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson published by oxford…

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Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich published by Knopf, 480…

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The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby published by University of Virginia Press, 272 pages (2020) Hardcover…

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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy by Earl J. Hess

Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy by Earl J. Hess, Published by The University of North Carolina Press (2016) 368 pp. $35.00 Hardcover,…

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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel published by Oxford University Press (2019). Here is…

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For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek published by Kent State University Press (2016). $37.95 Hardcover, $18.49 Kindle For Their…

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Book Review: Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris

Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris published by LSU Press (2014) Hardcover $42.50 Kindle $26.49. ​…

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Posted in Book Reviews U.S. Grant

Now That You Saw the Miniseries “Grant”-What Books Should You Read to Learn More

With hundreds of thousands of Americans watching the new History Channel miniseries “Grant,” I have been asked by several people for recommendations on books to…

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The New “Grant” Miniseries Is Based on a Bio by Ron Chernow. How Good Was the Book?

Yale historian David Blight wrote a mixed review of Ron Chernow’s “Grant” in the New York Review of Books when the biography appeared in 2018….

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