Category: Book Reviews
Interior Department Looking to Ban Historical Books from National Park Service Bookstores
For nearly a month I have been looking at exhibits and signage that may be withdrawn from the National Parks following the president’s Executive Order…
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth Varon
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth Varon published by…
Video: George Templeton Strong’s Civil War Diaries Have Just Been Published-An Editor’s Discussion
If you ever watched Ken Burn’s masterful, if flawed, documentary Civil War you no doubt remember the many quotes from George Templeton Strong voiced by…
Drew Gilpin Faust Reviews Fitzhugh Brundage’s Book “A Fate Worse Than Hell, American Prisoners of the Civil War”
Drew Gilpin Faust has a new review in the Atlantic Magazine of W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s new book titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners…
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall published by University of North Carolina…
The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP by Tim Galsworthy
The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP by Tim Galsworthy published by the University of South Carolina…
Most Popular Book at NY City’s Public Libraries? “James” The Story of an Escaped Slave Who Joins the USCT
Every year New York City’s three library systems tally up what books were borrowed the most times in the past year. This year was James…
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels published by LSU Press 318 pages (2025) Damian Shiels has been researching…
Best Books on Reconstruction of 2025
Every year I published a list of the best books on Reconstruction. I like telling you which volumes published over the previous twelve months are…
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard published by Doubleday (2011) Usually I don’t…