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Tag Archives: Southern Illinois University Press
Now Available: Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Dapartment
We’re excited to announce the release of the next book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, published by Southern Illinois University Press: Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department by Guy Hasegawa. Matchless Organization is “the essential reference about … Continue reading
The Bonds of War Now Available
We’re pleased to announce the release of the latest book in the Emerging Civil War Series: The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry by Diana L. Dretske, available … Continue reading
BookChat with Steven Woodworth and Charles Grear, editors of Vicksburg Besieged
I have been spending a lot of time lately with the latest volume in Southern Illinois University Press’s “Civil War Campaigns in the West” Series, Vicksburg Besieged, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear (see info on the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Sieges, Western Theater
Tagged BookChat, Charles Grear, Chuck Grear, Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland, Civil War Campaigns in the West, Siege of Vicksburg, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, Steven Woodworth, Vicksburg Besieged, Vicksburg Campaign
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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
Manticores, Myths, and Memory (conclusion)
(Part four of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). Their work on … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Engaging the Civil War Series, Memory, Personalities
Tagged David Hume, Deadwood, Ed Caudill, George Armstrong Custer, Imaging Wild Bill, Jesse James, John S. Mosby, Manticore Quintet, manticores, manticores-myths-and-memory, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Paul Ashdown, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, Wild Bill Hickok, Wild West, William T. Sherman
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Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part three)
(Part three of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). Yesterday, they explained their … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Engaging the Civil War Series, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Custer's Last Stand, David Madden, Ed Caudill, George Armstrong Custer, Imagining Wild Bill, John Marszalek, John S. Mosby, Little Big Man, Lost Cause, manticores, manticores-myths-and-memory, March to the Sea, Paul Ashdown, Sherman Sentinels, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, The Gray Ghost, They Died With Their Boots On, William T. Sherman
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Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part two)
(Part two of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). In yesterday’s opening … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Memory, Personalities
Tagged E. L. Doctorow, Ed Caudill, Engaging with the Civil War Series, Forrest Gump, Frederick Whittaker, George Armstrong Cuter, Gone with the Wind, Harry Turtledove, Inventing Custer, John Mosby, Little Bighorn, Manticore Quartet, manticores, manticores-myths-and-memory, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Paul Ashdown, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, The Gray Ghost, The March, Twilight Zone, William Faulkner, William T. Sherman, Winston Groom
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Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part one)
(Part one of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). In this series, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Engaging the Civil War Series, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Alan McGlashan, Ed Caudill, Engaging the Civil War Series, George Custer, Imaging Wild Bill, James Butler Hickok, John Mosby, Judson Kilpatrick, Lt. Col. George Ward Nichols, Manticore Quartet, manticores, manticores-myths-and-memory, mythology, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Paul Ashdown, pop culture, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, The Story of the Great March from the Diary of a Staff Officer, Wild Bill Hickok, William T. Sherman
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BookChat with Lucas Morel, author of Lincoln and the American Founding
I was pleased to spend some time with a recently released book by historian Lucas E. Morel, author of Lincoln and the American Founding, part of the Concise Lincoln Library from Southern Illinois University Press (find out more about it … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Stephens, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Concise Lincoln Library, Cornerstone Speech, Declaration of Independence, Founding Fathers, George Washington, Gettysburg Address, Invisible Man, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Ellison, Roger B. Taney, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, Stephen Douglas, Thomas Jefferson
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Imagining Wild Bill
ECW is pleased to welcome our friend Paul Ashdown, co-author of the newest book in our Engaging the Civil War Series, published in partnership with Southern Illinois University Press: Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory. … Continue reading
