Posted in Book Reviews Women and Gender

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews Lost Cause

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War Memory of Reconstruction

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews U.S. Grant

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….

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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…

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Posted in Book Reviews Places to Visit

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…

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“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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Posted in Book Reviews Videos

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

Note: You can now access my own Civil War/Reconstruction podcasts here.  The last month has been a uniquely vibrant one on Civil War and Reconstruction social…

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Posted in Book Reviews Native Americans

NPS book on Native Americans During the Civil War Now Free to Read OnLine

The National Park Service book American Indians and the Civil War is now available to read for free online. You can access the more than…

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