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Grant vs Lee
The Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series: Grant vs Lee: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Savas Beatie, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-61121-595-3 e-book ISBN: 978-1-954547-12-4 Specs: 10 maps, 100 images, 312 pp. Click here to Order *** About the Book With the presidential election looming in the fall, President Abraham […]
Read more...Book Review: Boy General of the 11th Alabama: John C. C. Sanders and Company C in the Civil War
Boy General of the 11th Alabama: John C. C. Sanders and Company C in the Civil War. By Donald W. Abel, Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2023. Softcover, 351 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Riley Sullivan Robert E. Lee’s famed Army of Northern Virginia has received much scholarly attention since the end of […]
Read more...Book Review: Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat. By Scott Hippensteel. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023. Softcover, 295 pp. $44.95. Reviewed by Joshua Lindamood Throughout history, geological characteristics and certain topographical features have dictated where troops can and cannot move on a battlefield and how they chose to fight. The American Civil […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Institutes and Conferences
The new academic semester recently began, making this a good opportunity to look at institutes and seminars as a part of preservation through telling the story of the Civil War. The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College was founded in 1962 and has been putting on a summer conference for over 35 years. This year’s […]
Read more...Book Review: Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South. By Elizabeth R. Varon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023. Hardcover, 459 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Andrew F. Lang James Longstreet’s civil war did not end at Appomattox. For decades thereafter, the Confederacy’s Number Three—behind Jefferson Davis and R. E. Lee—battled the Civil War’s verdicts and its […]
Read more...Book Review: Reconstruction Beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom
Reconstruction Beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom. Ed. by Orville Vernon Burton and J. Brent Morris. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023. Softcover, 300 pp. $34.50. Reviewed by David T. Dixon The Civil War ranks as a seminal event in American history, but the decades immediately following the war, popularly known as Reconstruction, […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Equal Rights in New Hampshire Civil War Monument Dedication
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I was happy to be in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the 2024 New Hampshire Primary, less so for the politicians and more so to photograph the newly restored Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument in Veterans Memorial Park right across from the Doubletree Hotel where all […]
Read more...Book Review: Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction. By Fergus M. Bordewich. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Press, 2023. Hardcover, 464 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Rich Condon Perhaps one of the most misunderstood, misinterpreted, and violent periods in American history are the years following the Civil War, known as Reconstruction, in which […]
Read more...A State Divided: A New Book Featuring 50 Previously-Unpublished Civil War Letters Provides Insights on Why Many Believe the Civil War Started in Missouri
On February 1, 2022, I received an email that changed the trajectory of my life in significant ways. Someone named Jeremy reached out to me on Ancestry.com saying he had a box of old letters and other items belonging to my ancestors. Many of the letters were addressed to my great great grandparents, Bailis […]
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