Category: Book Reviews
Civil War Monitor’s Five Essential Books on Sherman’s March to the Sea
Civil War Monitor has been putting out lists of the best books on a variety of Civil War-related topics lately. Here is its list of…
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War Wins Tom Watson Brown Award
Professor Sebastian Page of Oxford University has won the Tom Watson Brown Book Award for his new volume Black Resettlement and the American Civil War….
Around the Web October 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Welcome back to our survey of the best of social media on the Civil War and Reconstruction over the last month. There was a big…
Albert Castel Award Goes to Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23-July 4, 1863
David Powell and Eric Wittenberg were honored last week with the 2022 Albert Castel Book Award for their campaign study Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that…
Around the Web September 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
August tends to be a slow month for podcasts, but it was a great one for blog posts and book reviews. Enjoy! Blogs Scott Hartwig…
Kent Masterson Brown Wins Emerging Civil War Book Award for “Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command”.
Kent Masterson Brown has won the Emerging Civil War Book Award for his new volume Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command. According to the…
Grant’s Memoirs on List of Top Books Written by American Presidents
Last week I reported that Julia Dent Grant’s memoirs were ranked the Best Book by or about a First Lady by Town and Country Magazine….
Book by Julia Dent Grant Tops List of Books on “First Ladies”
Julia Dent Grant’s Personal Memoirs was ranked #1 in a list of the twenty best books on the First Ladies put out this week by…
Around the Web August 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Blogs Have you ever belonged to a Civil War Round Table? These are highly local groups of people interested in the Civil War who meet…
“Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the Civil War” Wins Organization of American Historians Book Award
The 2022 Organization of American Historians award for Civil War and Reconstruction Books went to Lorien Foote of Texas A&M University for her Rites of…
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