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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
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War is a strong and enlightening new book by Joanne B. Freeman, professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. She is not necessarily known as a Civil … Continue reading
Book Review: The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865
In Ken Burns’ nine-part documentary The Civil War, Shelby Foote notably described Nathan Bedford Forrest as one of “two authentic geniuses” generated by the Civil War. At another point in the series, Foote lays out Forrest’s maxims of war after calling the … Continue reading
Book Review: “Shooting Lincoln: Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and the Race to Photograph the Story of the Century”
Across the street from Ford’s Theatre and next to the Petersen House in Washington, D.C. there’s a museum dedicated to Abraham Lincoln’s legacy. The centerpiece of that museum is a three-and-a-half story tower of books written about the 16th president … Continue reading
Civil War Cookin’: It’s Just A Book Review
Well, it’s a couple days after Thanksgiving and since we’ve already “decked the halls with boughs of holly” (at least at my home), it’s probably time to wrap up Civil War Cookin‘ for 2017. If you’ve been intrigued by the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Holidays, Lincoln
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Book Review, civil war cookin, Civil War Cooking, civil war recipes, Lincoln cooking, Mary Lincoln, recipes
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Book Review: “A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time”
In the midst of the traditional military studies about bayonets and bugles, it can be easy to forget the thousands stories of those behind the lines. A new book about a relief worker in Alexandria, Virginia seeks to re-focus the … Continue reading
Book Review: “Double Canister At Ten Yards”
There’s a saying among Civil War historians, it might be old but no one is really sure of it’s earliest origins. The saying goes that if 10,000 books have been written on the American Civil War, 9,000 of them have … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books & Authors
Tagged "Double Canister At Ten Yards", Book Review, David L. Shultz, Gettysburg, Savas Beatie
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Book Review: “Top Ten at Gettysburg”
When it comes to Gettysburg, there is no doubt that it is the Civil War’s most famous battle. With that fame comes legions of authors who pour out a staggering amount of material covering the campaign in the summer of … Continue reading
