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Echoes of Reconstruction: Roundup of Recent Books
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just settled in with … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Absalom, Adam Domby, book reviews, civil rights, Congress at War, Constant Lecorge, Edward Ball, Fergus Bordewich, Fred Ogden, Frederick Douglass, Kate Masur, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Life of a Klansman, Michael Gorra, New Orleans, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee and Me, Slavery, The False Cause, The Reconstruction Era Blog, The Sadddest Words, Ty Seidule, Until Justice Be Done, white supremacy, William Faulkner
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Steve Davis to Serve as ECW’s New Book Review Editor
Emerging Civil War is pleased to announce that we are reinvigorating our book review services for readers. Toward that end we have acquired the services of Stephen Davis, of Cumming, Ga., as ECW Book Review Editor. Over the years Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War
Tagged book reviews, Burke Davis, Stephen Davis, Steve Davis
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Book Review: Searching for Stonewall by Ben Cleary
It seems I’ve been searching for Stonewall Jackson in one capacity or another for more than 20 years, so, needless to say, Ben Cleary’s new book, Searching for Stonewall Jackson, caught my attention. Cleary takes a Tony Horwitz-like approach to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Ben Cleary, book reviews, Searching for Stonewall, Stonewall Jackson
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Book Review: “The Camel Regiment”
When he served as the U.S. Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis had the grand idea of importing camels. The camels, Davis reasoned, would be perfect animals to use in fighting among the far western reaches of America’s deserts, and thus … Continue reading
Book Review: “Death, Disease, and Life at War”
From the regimental camp of the 111th New York Infantry near Brandy Station, Virginia, Surgeon James Benton wrote to his parents, “The spring campaign will soon be upon us and in my opinion we have never seen any fighting which … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged 111th New York, 98th New York, and Life at War, book reviews, Christoper E. Loperfido, death, disease, James D. Benton
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A Peek into the “Critic’s Corner” in Civil War News
SHAG-A-DOO-LA. Those of us who write about the Civil War for fun (rarely for profit) get our ideas from any number of sources. One never knows when or how some inspiration will occur. Driving to the store recently, I heard … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Newspapers
Tagged book reviews, books, Civil War News, Critics Corner, Jack Melton, Kay Jorgenson
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Review: The Gettysburg Cyclorama
Having worked so much at the Wilderness, I don’t buy into that whole “Gettysburg as the turning point of the Civil War” nonsense. Aside from that premise, though, there’s little negative to say about Chris Brenneman and Sue Boardman’s stunning … Continue reading
A beautiful, despairing journey with a coal-black horse
There’s a kind of myth-making happening in Robert Olmstead’s novel Coal Black Horse. Published in 2007, I had the chance this past week to journey with the horse once more, and it was a trip well worth taking. Set in … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged book reviews, coal black horse, Gettysburg, Robert Olmstead
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The Land of Lincoln and the Defense of the Icon
The Lincoln Memorial looked like frost tonight. The flurry that had blanketed the lawn white earlier in the day had been glazed with rain and then turned to ice, so the whole landscape shimmered under the Memorial’s lights.
