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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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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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Eric Foner Reviews New Book on Radical Republicans in The Nation Magazine

Eric Foner reviews LeeAnna Keith’s new book on the Radical Republicans in this week’s The Nation Magazine. The preeminent historian of the Reconstruction Era gives…

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Book Review: The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, a Deeply Flawed Classic

The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren published by Bison Books, 109 pages (1960, reissued 1998). $14.95 Paperback, $11.14 Kindle. The question you…

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Part 11: I Am Still Finding More Free Books on the Civil War and Reconstruction!

I have found yet another bunch of other free books. As my regular readers know, Project Muse is making hundreds of Civil War and Reconstruction…

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Part 10: University of Massachusetts Civil War and Reconstruction Books Now Free Online

Another university publisher is making its books available free online. Now the University of Massachusetts Press has made dozens of books on the Civil War…

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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson published by Scribner (2020). Hardcover…

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