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Book Review: A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter
Reviewed by Meg Groeling Every time a new diary or memoir of someone who lived through the American Civil War is published, history comes incrementally closer to understanding the war that continues to define us as a nation. The 2021 … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Primary Sources
Tagged Book Review, Civil War Diary, civil war kentucky, Civil War Women, Frances Peter, Unionist, women's studies
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Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
A good reference book bears several elements, beginning with its title: The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War thus telegraphs its purpose. Another is heft: this one has 675 pages. Third is a big raft of contributors, and recognizable … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, ECW Book Review, The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
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Book Review: Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox
Caroline Janney is a rising star in the literature of Confederate war-memory. At UVA she wrote her dissertation, “The Ladies Memorial Associations of Virginia” under Gary Gallagher. She drew from it for an essay in Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, … Continue reading
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Tagged Appomattox, Book Review, Caroline Janney, Lee's Surrender, Lost Cause, Paroles
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Book Review: Lincoln’s Northern Nemesis: The War Opposition and Exile of Ohio’s Clement Vallandigham
Ohio produced no shortage of Civil War luminaries. On one end of the spectrum, you have names like Grant, Sherman, Sheridan (sort of), Hayes, Rosecrans, and Garfield. And on the other…Clement Vallandigham. Even after 160 years, Vallandigham remains the name … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books & Authors
Tagged antebellum politics, Book Review, Clement Vallandigham, Martin Gottlieb, Ohio, peace democrats
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Book Review: Slavery: Interpreting American History
In Slavery: Interpreting American History, editors Aaron Astor and Thomas C. Buchanan have compiled an impressive volume that succinctly explores the changing interpretations of slavery. This is not so much a history of American slavery as it is a history … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Slavery
Tagged Aaron Astor, Book Review, gender, historiography, Kent State University Press, resistance to slavery, Slavery, Thomas C. Buchanan, women
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Book Review: Confederates and Comancheros, Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands
“Skullduggery,” the word graces the cover and the third paragraph of the introduction to this detailed study that highlights a very niche component of the American Civil War and the frontier establishment of the American southwest. Authors and historians … Continue reading
Book Review: Invisible Wounds
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers By Dillon J. Carroll Louisiana State University Press, 2021, $45 hardcover Reviewed by Meg Groeling In the last ten or so years there have been a nice handful of books written about … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Medical
Tagged Book Review, Civil War medicine, Mental Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, wounded
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Book Review: Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works Edited by Gary W. Gallagher & Stephen Cushman Louisiana State University Press 2021 $45 hardcover Reviewed by Sean Michael Chick If there are two things we seem assured to … Continue reading
Book Review: Day By Day through the Civil War in Georgia
Day By Day through the Civil War in Georgia By Michael K. Shaffer Mercer University Press 2022 $37 hardcover Reviewed by Stephen Davis For years—decades, really—the go-to source on Georgia in the war has been T. Conn Bryan’s Confederate Georgia … Continue reading
Book Review: Matchless Organization
Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department By Guy R. Hasegawa Southern Illinois University Press 2021 $26.50 paperback Reviewed by Stephen Davis In Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service (1958), H. H. Cunningham quotes a Southern physician as saying, … Continue reading
