Category: Book Reviews
NY Times- ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’
The New York Times has reflections from five women authors on how the book Little Women influenced their work. Julia Alvarez, Virginia Kantra, Anna Quindlen,…
Podcast Interview of Kevin M. Levin Author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth”
Kevin M. Levin, author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth,” was recently interviewed on Civil War Talk Radio by host…
Book Review: Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson published by Norton (2007). This book won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and…
Miss Louisa May Alcott Publishes a Novel for Girls: Press Reacts to “Little Women” 1868 & 1869
This is the Sesquicentennial of the publication of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. This book may have been the most successful novel published during…
Book Review: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868 and 1869). How can you review a book on its 150th anniversary that 90% of your female…
Book Review: Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains By Steven E. Nash
Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains By Steven E. Nash Published by University of North Carolina Press (2016) $39.95…
Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian of Civil War and Reconstruction William S. McFeely Passes Away
William S. McFeely was a major influence on the reevaluation of the Reconstruction Era in the 1970s and 1980s. McFeely wrote widely read biographies of…
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs published by Oxford University Press (2012) Hardcover $33.95, Paper $23.95,…
How “Little Women” Got Big from The New Yorker
The New Yorker had an interesting article on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Little Women was published in 1868 and 1869 and this is its…
“Stony the Road” by Henry Louis Gates Named a “Must Read Book” by Time Magazine
Henry Louis Gates’s Reconstruction book Stony the Road was named one of Time Magazine’s “Must Read Books of 2019.” Here is what Time says about…
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