Category: Book Reviews
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…
Book Review: LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2019) $30.00 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle Learning…
The Nation Magazine Reviews New Book from Eric Foner on Reconstruction Constitutional Amendments
Historian Michael Kazin has a very favorable review of Eric Foner’s new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution….
Historian James Oakes Writes on Recent Works by Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates
Historian James Oakes writes about recent books, and a PBS documentry from Henry Louis Gates and Eric Foner in this week’s New York Review of…
Smithsonian Names Three Civil War/Reconstruction Era Books to Its Top 10 List for 2019
Smithsonian Magazine came out with its list of the Ten Best History Books of 2019 this week. Three books from the Civil War and Reconstruction…
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates published by Penguin Press (2019) 320 pages $30.00 Hardcover $14.99…
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