Posted in Book Reviews Slavery

Book Review: The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco

The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco published by…

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Posted in Book Reviews Memory of Reconstruction Veterans

TEACHING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS

The blog Muster has an interesting article by Susannah Ural titled TEACHING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS. It can…

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Posted in Abolitionists Book Reviews Slavery

Three Million Have Seen “Harriet”-Here Are Biographies to Learn the Fuller Story

The film “Harriet,” about the life of Harriet Tubman, has been out for three weeks and over three million people have seen it in the…

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Posted in Andrew Johnson Army Occupation Book Reviews

After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory Downs

After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory Downs published by Harvard University Press (2015) Hardcover $32.95 Kindle $18.12. Before the 1960s, it…

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Posted in Book Reviews Slavery White Supremacy Women and Gender

Book Review: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers published by Yale University Press (2019) 320 pages. $30.00…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Book Reviews Refugees

Book Review: Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor

Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor published by The University of North Carolina Press (2018) 363 pages 34.95…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War

Wall Street Journal Reviews “Hymns of the Republic,” New Book on the Last Year of the Civil War

The Wall Street Journal has a review by Allen Guelzo of a new book on the last year of the Civil War, HYMNS OF THE…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Book Reviews Freedmen's Bureau

From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas 1865-1869 (Black Community Studies) by Randy Finley

From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas 1865-1869 (Black Community Studies) by Randy Finley published by The University of Arkansas Press (1996) 229…

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Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean

Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean published by Fordham University Press (2016)…

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Posted in Book Reviews Press

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran published by University of North Carolina Press (2013) 380 pages Hardcover $29.95 Kindle $17.49….

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