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ECW Weekender: The Rocktop Bookshop and Bindery
It’s always fun to discover a new used book shop. Recently, my colleague Dan Welch pointed me to a shop, new to me, in Cashtown, Pennsylvania, called the Rocktop Bookshop and Bindery. Located just down the street from the famous … Continue reading
April’s ECW Bookshelf
Do you need some ideas about what books to read next from your collection? Look no further than the current list of what ECW’s members are reading this month! Let us know what books you are currently reading in the … Continue reading
Why I Collect Civil War Books
Like many of you, many of us at ECW are avid collectors of Civil War books. We’re pleased to share a guest post by Mark Wade that speaks to that passion so many of us share. Marks’s post also appeared … Continue reading
Suggested Readings for Our Troubled Times
Crazy times. We seem to be living through ’em right now. The temperature is running hot. People feel anxious, confused, hopeful and hateful. How do we make sense of it all? Well, in an effort to offer our readers some … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Ties to the War
Tagged Adams Vs. Jefferson, Allen Guelzo, American Heritage, books, Caroline Janney, Confederate Flag, David Blight, David M. Potter, David McCullough, David Steward, Dixie's Daughters, Gary Gallagher, Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War, If Elected, It's Even Worse than It Looks, James P. Muehlberger, Joanne Freeman, John Adams, John Coski, John Ferling, Karen Cox, Lincoln and Douglas, Michael F. Holt, Norman Ornstein, Race & Reunion, Race and Reunion, reading list, Remembering the Civil War, Sebastian Junger, The 116, The Field of Blood, The Historian's Use of Nationalism and Vice Versa, The Inner Civil War, The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, The Political Crisis of the 1850s, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Summer of 1787, The Third Reich, Thomas Childers, Thomas E. Mann, Tribe, William Shirer
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Holiday Book Deals from Southern Illinois University Press
If you’re still looking for some great books for the holidays, don’t forget the Engaging the Civil War Series, ECW’s groovy collaboration with Southern Illinois University Press! SIUP put together a cool interactive holiday catalogue, and you can see our … Continue reading
FREE ECW Podcast: Impulse of Victory
Dave Powell talks about Ulysses S. Grant’s “impulse of victory” at Chattanooga—Dave’s newest book, now available from Southern Illinois University Press. Check out all the details in the newly released, free ECW Podcast episode. Listen—Impulse of Victory Dave’s book, The … Continue reading
Home Libraries: Across Time and Place
I have loved reading from an early age, and as I get older reading has become the main thing that I do to relax and fill my free time. I started out reading sports biographies, and the discovered Stephen King … Continue reading
Home Libraries: “I Cannot Live Without Books”
I cannot live without books, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his old Revolutionary colleague John Adams. The two were famously well read, and they loved to talk about books with each other and with many of the people they each corresponded … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged books, Civil War books, home-libraries, Incredible Hulk, tales-from-the-home-libraries
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Home Libraries: Truly Making it Home
I’ve moved three times over the past five years. Packing for the moves is always the most time-consuming part of the process, and it’s not all that bad. Except for the books. When my wife and I last moved, we … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged books, Civil War books, home-libraries, tales-from-the-home-libraries
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Question of the Week: 5/11-5/17/20
We keep hearing that many folks are reading more this spring and building their library collections. What Civil War book[s] are you reading these days?
