Category: Book Reviews

The New York Times has a review of the hot Civil War and Reconstruction book of the Winter. The review is done by  Brenda Wineapple,…

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon published by Simon & Schuster (2023) Back in the 1960s when I first started…

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf (2023) 480 pages $35.00 In the immediate months after…

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams Bloomsbury Publishing (2023) 371 pages $25.00…

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf (2023) 480 pages $35.00 In the immediate months after the…

Jennifer Szalai did a review in the New York Times of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M….

Today, the Wall Street Journal has a review by Roger Lowenstein the new book Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction…

According to the Washington Post, two new Civil War/Reconstruction Era books have been Longlisted for the National Book Awards this year. Night Watch is a…

Historian Garrett M. Graff has a review of the new biography President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear from Simon & Schuster. Here…

Last month was a very unusual time of life for me. I was hit with a stroke four weeks ago. This is my first blog…