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Book Review: The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West

Posted on July 31, 2025

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West. By Martha A. Sandweiss. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University…

Book Review: Late to the Fight: Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg

Posted on July 31, 2025

Late to the Fight: Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg. By Alexandre F. Caillot.…

Book Review: Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era

Posted on July 29, 2025

  Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era. By Alys D.…

Book Review: The Pathfinder and the President: John C Frémont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation

Posted on July 29, 2025

The Pathfinder and the President: John C Frémont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation. By John Bicknell. Essex, Connecticut:…

Review: Lincoln the Citizen: February 12, 1809 to March 4, 1861

Posted on July 24, 2025

Lincoln the Citizen: February 12, 1809 to March 4, 1861. By Henry C. Whitney. Edited and with an introduction by Michael…

Book Review: Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan by Guy Gugliotta

Posted on July 24, 2025

Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. By Guy Gugliotta. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2025. Hardcover, 271 pp. $32.05.…

Book Review: Hope Never To See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War

Posted on July 22, 2025

Hope Never To See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War. By Andrew Fialka and…

Book Review: In the Thickest of the Fray: Mississippians at Gettysburg in Their Own Words

Posted on July 22, 2025

In the Thickest of the Fray: Mississippians at Gettysburg in Their Own Words. By Joseph L. Owen and J. Douglas…

Book Review: The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama’s Pickens Family

Posted on July 17, 2025

The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama’s Pickens Family. Edited by Henry M. McKiven, Jr. Baton…

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