Category: Book Reviews
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…
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha published by Liveright Press (2024) Manisha Sinha is the author of…
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews Edda L. Fields-Black Author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Host Gerald Prokopowicz of Civil War Talk Podcast interviews Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during…
The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell
The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell published by Savas Beatie (2024) When I saw that military historian Dave…
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery by John Swanson Jacobs
Jacobs, John Swanson. The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by…
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines Foster
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory. By Gaines M. Foster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 280 pp….
Civil War & Reconstruction Books from the NY Times Best Books of the 21st Century
The New York Times just published their list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century (so far). Here are the two novels and…
Washington Post Reviews “Decade of Disunion” by Robert Merry
The Washington Post has a new book review out on Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861…
NY Times Reviews “NIGHT FLYER: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People” by Tiya Miles
The New York Times has a new review of Tiya Miles’s latest book on Harriet Tubman. Jennifer Szalai authored it. Here are some substantial excerpts:…
NY Times Book Review Podcast Discusses “James” a Novel Based on Jim from “Huck Finn”
The New York Times has a new “Book Club” discussion of Percival Everett’s novel James which tells us the story of Jim from Mark Twain’s…