ECW Book Reviews

Book Review: Confederate Citadel

Posted on March 11, 2021

Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War By Mary A. DeCredico University Press of Kentucky, 2020, $50 hardcover Reviewed…

Book Review: Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812—1863

Posted on March 9, 2021

Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812—1863 By Harwood P. Hinton Hinton and Jerry…

Book Review: Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton: A Memoir of Plantation Life, War, and Reconstruction in Georgia and South Carolina

Posted on March 5, 2021

Southerners get short shrift from historians lately. They represent ignorant, mean-spirited, small-minded types of people who prefer to let others…

Book Review: Writing War and Reunion

Posted on March 1, 2021

Writing War and Reunion:  Selected Civil War and Reconstruction Newspaper Editorials by William Gilmore Simms Edited by Jeffery J. Rogers…

Book Review: Six Days of Awful Fighting by Eric Wittenberg

Posted on February 24, 2021

In his newest book, Eric Wittenberg has turned his prolific pen to a topic that has been unfortunately overlooked: the…

Book Review: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song

Posted on February 2, 2021

The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song Edited by Chris Mackowski Southern Illinois University Press, 2020, $26.50 paperback. Reviewed…

Steve Davis to Serve as ECW’s New Book Review Editor

Posted on January 31, 2021

Emerging Civil War is pleased to announce that we are reinvigorating our book review services for readers. Toward that end…

ECW’s January Bookshelf

Posted on January 30, 2021

Do you need some ideas about what books to read next from your collection? Look no further than the current…

Book Review: Wisconsin at Antietam: The Badger State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day

Posted on January 13, 2021

Sometimes you just need everything in one place–background, analysis, good quotes, orders of battle, pertinent illustrations, some politics, maps, context,…

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