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Tag Archives: Dixie’s Daughters

Suggested Readings for Our Troubled Times

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Emerging Civil War

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 | 4 Comments
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