Category: Book Reviews
Part 4: A Whole Passel of Books from Fordham on Reconstruction and the Civil War
As I keep digging I keep finding more and more free books being offered by scholarly presses on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. These…
Part 3: More Free Civil War and Reconstruction Books to Read This Time from Fordham University Press’s The North’s Civil War Series
Just as the University of North Carolina did, Fordham University has made two dozen of its Civil War and Reconstruction Era history books available for…
Part 2 The Classics: Even More Free Online Civil War and Reconstruction Books from University of North Carolina Press
Project Muse is making hundreds of books from the University of North Carolina Press about the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras free online. Yesterday I…
Part 1: Free Online Access to Hundreds of Great Civil War and Reconstruction Books from University of North Carolina Press
Nothing is good about the Corona Pandemic except that Project Muse is making hundreds of books about the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras free online….
The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America by William G. Thomas
The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America by William G. Thomas published by Yale University Press (2011) $22.00 Paperback $15.99…
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard (1866). Available Free Here. The Lost Cause by Edward Pollard is a…
In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America
In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America by Andrew F. Lang published by LSU Press (2017) $47.50 (Hardcover) $36.30 (Kindle) If…
NY Times Interviews Edward Achorn, the Author of “Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.”
In his new book Every Drop of Blood Edward Achorn describes the 24 hours of Lincoln’s Second Inauguration. We all remember Lincoln address that day,…
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson Heavily Discounted on Amazon
I was browsing Amazon today and I noticed that one of the better recent books on Reconstruction is heavily discounted. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction…
Reconstruction: A Concise History by Allen C. Guelzo
Reconstruction: A Concise History by Allen C. Guelzo published by Oxford University Press (2018) 188 pages $18.95 Hardcover $11.49 Kindle This was not a book…
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