Category: Book Reviews
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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