Category: Book Reviews
Around the Web February 2023: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
January was a little depressing because I am a Buffalo Bills fan. Still, I got to write a lot of new posts last month, and…
Washington Post Reviews Kidada Williams Book “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction”
The Washington Post has a review of Kidada Williams new book I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against…
LA Times Review: I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
The Los Angeles Times reviewed I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams published…
Jon Meacham reviews AMERICAN INHERITANCE: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson in NY Times
Jon Meacham reviews AMERICAN INHERITANCE: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson in this weeks New York Times…
THE LION AND THE FOX: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy Reviewed by NY Times
The New York Times recently reviewed the new book on the maneuvers of a Union diplomat and a Confederate spy over the construction of Confederate…
Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond by Hampton Newsome
Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond by Hampton Newsome published by the University Press of Kansas (2022) I am very familiar with…
Around the Web January 2023: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Because it was the Holiday Season, December was a little lighter on social media than other months, but there was still plenty of interesting new…
Jon Meacham On How Growing Up Near Civil War Battlefields Helped Him Become a Historian
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham has a new book out on Abe Lincoln. Today’s New York Times has an article on how Meacham came…
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country Wins A.M. Pate Award for Trans-Mississippi Civil War History
The 2022 A.M. Pate Award for the best book on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi has been awarded to Fay Yarbrough for her book…
Civil War Books & Authors Names Best Book of 2022
The blog Civil War Books and Authors announced its 2022 Top Ten Books List this week. Here are the picks. Head over to the blog…
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