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Category Archives: Books & Authors
Book Review: America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War
It is not often that one reads a book on a specific subject written by a person who has been awarded for attempting to get rid of the topic itself. Author Kenneth R. Rutherford gives readers such an opportunity with … Continue reading
ECWS: Support Independent Publishing
As many readers know, it’s been a quiet year for the Emerging Civil War book series. We previewed a pair of upcoming titles yesterday, but for now, they join a pretty good list of titles that are currently backed up … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged Emerging Civil War Series, publishing, Savas Beatie, Ted Savas
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C’mon, Cump!
In his recent, admiring biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, Brian Holden Reid terms him a “dazzling literary stylist.” Well, watch out for that razzle-dazzle, at least in Sherman’s Memoirs (1875). I am not the first to notice that in his … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Primary Sources
Tagged Albert Castel, Alpheus Williams, Atlanta Campaign, B. A. Dunn, Brian Holden Reid, Cump, Daniel Butterfield, Jefferson C. Davis, Kennesaw Mountain, National Tribune, New Hope Church, Oliver O. Howard, Patrick Cleburne, Pickett's Mill, Prevaricating Through Georgia, Resaca, sherman's memoirs, Thomas Wood, William T. Sherman
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A Rope of Sand: Some thoughts on America after Confederate Independence
ECW welcomes guest author Jim Morgan “A Southern Republic will be worse than a rope of sand with South Carolina at its head – arrogant, self-willed and dictatorial as she is.” –Former North Carolina Attorney General, Bartholomew F. Moore, December, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged Cuba, Gettysburg, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, New Orleans, Richmond, Russia, South Carolina, Texas
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Please—no more Jonesboropia!
In my new book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer University Press, December 2019), I coin a word, Jonesboropia, to refer to the persistent myth that the battle of Jonesboro, fought south of Atlanta on … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Western Theater
Tagged Atlanta Campaign, Carter Center, Jacob Cox, John Bell Hood, Jonesboro, Macon & Western Railroad, Mount Gilead Church, Oliver Otis Howard, Rough and Ready, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Wilbur Kurtz, William Hardee, William T. Sherman
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BookChat with Cody Marrs, author of Not Even Past
As a big fan of the Civil War in pop culture, I was especially looking forward to Cody Marrs’ new book Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War, which deals with the ways “the story … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Lincoln, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Alice Fahs, Birth of a Nation, BookChat, Cody Marrs, D. W. Griffith, David Blight, Edward Pollard, emancipation, Evelyn Scott, Fire on the Mountain, Gary Gallagher, Gone with the Wind, Johns Hopkins University Press, Jubilee, Lioncoln, Margaret Walker, Mark Twain, Memory, Not Even Past, Reconstruction, Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, Terry Bisson, The Lost Cause, The Wave, W.E.B. DuBois, William Faulkner
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A Gem from the Gilder Lehrman
A century and a half after the war, we’re still finding cool stuff. I’ll give an example from my new book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer, 2019). In my research I was perusing Kirk … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Western Theater
Tagged A. P. Stewart, Alinda Borell, Atlanta Campaign, Gilder Lehrman Institute, James Chesnut, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Krik Denkler, Mary Chesnut, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta
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The author speaks out on his work: Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood
Every Civil War historian hopes that her/his work will add a few nuggets to the literature. Here’s a candidate from my recent book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer University Press, 2019). In Stephen M. … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Newspapers, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Advance and Retreat, Atlanta Campaign, Howard-Tilton Library, John Bell Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood, New Orleans, New Orleans Times, Stephen Hood, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Tulane UNiversity
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The Resonance of The Field of Blood
I recently finished reading The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman, and in all honesty, I can’t remember a history book that seemed more relevant or resonant. Published in 2018, … Continue reading
All For the Union, 1910
From Elisha Hunt Rhodes of the 2nd Rhode Island, author of All For the Union, from a speech given at the 44th Annual Encampment, Department of Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. April 6 and 7, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Common Soldier, Memory, Monuments, Personalities, Primary Sources
Tagged Elisha Hunt Rhodes, GAR, Grand Army of the Republic, statues
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