2023 Year in Review: ECW Bookshelf

When 2023 started, publisher Ted Savas told us this was going to be the “catch-up” year: Covid had set him–and the entire publishing world–behind, and this was the year he was going to catch up. And, wow, did he!

2023 saw thirteen Emerging Civil War and Emerging Revolutionary War-branded books come out. Thanks, Ted Savas, for catching up! (And our friends as Southern Illinois University Press came through with one for us, too!)

And the coolest thing? Among our great line-up of writers, four of them are first-time authors and one is a first-time editor. It was a great way for us to continue to promote emerging talent in the field of Civil War public history.

From the Emerging Civil War Series:

To Hell or Richmond: The 1862 Peninsula Campaign
by Doug Crenshaw and Drew Gruber

Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War
by Derek D. Maxfield

John Brown’s Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859
by Jon-Erik Gilot and Kevin R. Pawlak

They Came Only to Die: The Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864by Sean Michael Chick

Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862–January 2, 1863
by Caroline Ann Davis and Robert Dunkerly

Stay and Fight it Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
by Kristopher D. White and Chris Mackowski

A Series of Civil War Scribblings: Celebrating the First Fifty Books in Savas Beatie’s Emerging Civil War Series (a special limited-edition publication!)
edited by Chris Mackowski

From the Emerging Revolutionary War Series:

All That Can Be Expected: The Battle of Camden and the British High Tide in the South, August 16, 1780
by Robert Orrison and Mark Wilcox

To the Last Extremity: The Battles for Charleston, 1776-1782
by Mark Maloy

From the Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series:
(containing Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War)

Civil War Monuments and Memory
Edited by Jon Tracey and Chris Mackowski

The Civil War and Pop Culture
Edited by Chris Mackowski and Jon Tracey

The Civil War on the Water
Edited by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes and Chris Mackowski

Fallen Leaders
Edited by Chris Mackowski

From the Engaging the Civil War Series:

Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons
by Jill L. Newmark