Category: Book Reviews
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…
Elizabeth R. Varon Wins Lincoln Prize for “Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War”
Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute announced that Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press),…
NY Times Reviews New Book on John and Jessie Fremont by Steve Inskeep
The New York Times has a review of the new book on the Fremont marriage. John Frémont was the Pathfinder of the West and his…
New Yorker Reviews a New History of an Old Slave Revolt and How It Helped End the International Slave Trade
The New Yorker has an interesting review by Casey Cep of a new book on a slave revolt in Jamaica called Tacky’s Revolt. According to…
Book Review-Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid: African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619–2019 by Eugene DeFriest Bétit (2019)
Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid: African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619–2019 by Eugene DeFriest Bétit (2019) This recent book by Eugene Betit traces the…
Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War by Chandra Manning
Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War by Chandra Manning examines the interplay of black refugees who arrived by the thousands into Union…
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