Category: Book Reviews
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews Edda L. Fields-Black Author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Host Gerald Prokopowicz of Civil War Talk Podcast interviews Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during…
The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell
The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell published by Savas Beatie (2024) When I saw that military historian Dave…
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery by John Swanson Jacobs
Jacobs, John Swanson. The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by…
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines Foster
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory. By Gaines M. Foster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 280 pp….
Civil War & Reconstruction Books from the NY Times Best Books of the 21st Century
The New York Times just published their list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century (so far). Here are the two novels and…
Washington Post Reviews “Decade of Disunion” by Robert Merry
The Washington Post has a new book review out on Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861…
NY Times Reviews “NIGHT FLYER: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People” by Tiya Miles
The New York Times has a new review of Tiya Miles’s latest book on Harriet Tubman. Jennifer Szalai authored it. Here are some substantial excerpts:…
NY Times Book Review Podcast Discusses “James” a Novel Based on Jim from “Huck Finn”
The New York Times has a new “Book Club” discussion of Percival Everett’s novel James which tells us the story of Jim from Mark Twain’s…
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle published by Princeton University Press (2024) Don Doyle’s new book…
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan published by Bloomsbury Publishing (2024) I have been very…
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