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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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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….

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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…

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‘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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Kate Masur Wins the Littleton-Griswold Prize in US Law and Society from American Historical Association for “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction”

Historian Kate Masur has won the Littleton-Griswold Prize in US Law and Society from the American Historical Association for her 2021 book Until Justice Be…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War

A Carolina Librarian on Recent Civil War Books that Help Challenge Your Understanding of the Civil War

Paul Birkhead, a librarian in Salisbury, North Carolina at the Rowan Public Library, wrote an interesting column in the Salisbury Post on recent books he…

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Around the Web November 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

The last month was a good one for both blogging and podcasts. I particularly enjoyed the Civil War Talk Radio interview with Bryan Cheeseboro of…

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