Category: Book Reviews
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…
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard Published by University of North Carolina Press (2022) One of the Civil War social…
The Bestselling Civil War Books of 2022
The Civil War Monitor has published its annual Best Seller List of the top-selling books on the American Civil War Era according to NPD Bookscan….
Civil War Monitor Publishes Its “Best Civil War Books of 2022” List
Every year the respected history magazine Civil War Monitor publishes its “Best Civil War Books” of the Year list. You can read the whole list…
‘Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War’ by Roger Lowenstein Named a “Best” Book by Washington Post
‘Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War,’ by Roger Lowenstein was named one of the Washington Post’s “best”…
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