Category: Book Reviews
Wiley-Silver Prize Awarded to Cecily Zander for The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era
Cecily Zander, an Assistant Professor of History at Texas Woman’s University, has won the Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book by a scholar on…
Two Civil War Books Win Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and History
On May 5 the announcement came of Pulitzer Prizes. Two books largely dealing with the Civil War, won awards. The winner for Fiction was James…
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,
This month the 2025 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute was awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River…
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families by Judith Giesberg
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families by Judith Giesberg published by Simon & Schuster (2025). Judith Giesberg…
Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III
Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III published by LSU Press…
Civil War Talk Radio on Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of Americas Largest Emancipation
Gerry at Civil War Talk Radio has a thought provoking with Bennett Parten, the author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of…
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur and Elizabeth Clarke
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur and Elizabeth Clarke published by University of North…
Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh
Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh published by Kent State University Press (2024) is an interesting biography…
Five Best Books of the Last Year on Reconstruction
October is National Book Book Month and here are some new volumes that have come out in the last year that really raise standards for…
Podcast: Author George Saunders on His Novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” About Lincoln After the Death of His Son
A novel about Lincoln was ranked as one of the best books of the 21st Century by the New York Times. Here is the Book…