Category: Book Reviews
The New “Grant” Miniseries Is Based on a Bio by Ron Chernow. How Good Was the Book?
Yale historian David Blight wrote a mixed review of Ron Chernow’s “Grant” in the New York Review of Books when the biography appeared in 2018….
Eric Foner Reviews New Book on Radical Republicans in The Nation Magazine
Eric Foner reviews LeeAnna Keith’s new book on the Radical Republicans in this week’s The Nation Magazine. The preeminent historian of the Reconstruction Era gives…
Book Review: The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, a Deeply Flawed Classic
The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren published by Bison Books, 109 pages (1960, reissued 1998). $14.95 Paperback, $11.14 Kindle. The question you…
Part 11: I Am Still Finding More Free Books on the Civil War and Reconstruction!
I have found yet another bunch of other free books. As my regular readers know, Project Muse is making hundreds of Civil War and Reconstruction…
Part 10: University of Massachusetts Civil War and Reconstruction Books Now Free Online
Another university publisher is making its books available free online. Now the University of Massachusetts Press has made dozens of books on the Civil War…
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson published by Scribner (2020). Hardcover…
Part 9: University of Tennessee Offers Its Civil War and Reconstruction Books Free Online
The University of Tennessee Press has joined a dozen other scholarly presses to make its Civil War and Reconstruction books free on Project Muse during…
Part 8: Civil War & Reconstruction Books from Miscellaneous Publishers for Free
This is the final post I will make on Civil War and Reconstruction books offered for free during the Corona Crisis. These are e-books that…
Part 7: Free Civil War and Reconstruction e-books from UNC African American History & Wayne State University Press
You may have thought I could not find any more free books for you to download, but I have found yet more Civil War and…
Part 6: Free Civil War and Reconstruction e-books from Universities of Missouri, Arizona, Temple, Cornell and Texas Tech
Well, I have found yet more Civil War and Reconstruction books offered for free during the Corona Crisis. These are e-books that various university presses…