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Book Review: Midnight Rising
…follow him they did, swearing allegiance to his revolutionary government and marching into Virginia to found a new order. Within two years, entire armies would cross the Potomac, and this obscured the magnitude of what happened in 1859. The street … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, John Brown, John Brown's Raid, John-Brown-160, John-Browns-Raid-160, midnight rising, Tony Horwitz
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Book Review: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
Kevin Levin, a historian, educator, and blogger based in Boston, has waded into this argument keyboard blazing. The first three chapters discuss in depth the definition of a “camp slave.” When a slave-owning family sent one of their men to … Continue reading
Book Review: Searching for Stonewall by Ben Cleary
It seems I’ve been searching for Stonewall Jackson in one capacity or another for more than 20 years, so, needless to say, Ben Cleary’s new book, Searching for Stonewall Jackson, caught my attention. Cleary takes a Tony Horwitz-like approach to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Cleary, book reviews, Searching for Stonewall, Stonewall Jackson
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Book Review: “Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 – 14, 1863”
Are we firmly in the golden age of Gettysburg publishing? The past 15 – 20 years have produced a wealth of essential Gettysburg reading for those of us interested in the climactic battle of the American Civil War. That’s not … Continue reading
Book Review: “Gettysburg: Kids Who Did the Impossible”
All I can think of is “What fun to do this book!” Gettysburg: Kids Who Did the Impossible is a children’s book featuring two reasonably adorable children and several other reenactors who have combined forces to tell the stories of the young … Continue reading
BOOK REVIEW – Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered
I have long believed that Civil War prisoner of war facilities were the final frontier in Civil War scholarship. Under-explored and under-appreciated, it has only been relatively recently that POW camps began to be researched and monographs written. A recent … Continue reading
Book Review—Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
ECW welcomes back guest author Nathan Varnold. Understanding the life of the most famous and most outspoken black abolitionist in American history is no easy task, but David W. Blight has spent most of his career attempting to simplify a … Continue reading
Symposium Spotlight: Books, Books, Books Pt. 1
This week our Symposium Spotlight will get you excited about a summer reading list. In part one of this series, our presenters have suggested works that will get you prepared for this year’s theme “Forgotten Battles of the Civil War.” … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium, 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, 2019 Symposium, Sixth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium, Sixth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge
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2018 Year in Review: #3
We already had one book review make the top-ten: James Epperson’s review of Ron Chernow’s Grant. But another book has gained a lot of traction this year within the Civil War community, and its ECW review comes in as the third-most-read … Continue reading
Robert E. Lee: Brave Leader
In the 1980’s and 1990’s I was periodically given a catalog for Troll Associates, which published children’s books. Among them were various history books. In the library I had already checked books from the World at War series, the first … Continue reading
