New To the Civil War Memory Library, 01/11

by Kevin Levin on January 11, 2013 · 4 comments · Follow me on Twitter

It’s safe to say that 2013 is already shaping up to be a good year for Civil War titles. I am in the middle of Oakes’s book and really looking forward to digging into new books by Kelman and Levine. If I am not mistaken we now have the first modern biography of Thomas Nast.

Fiona Deans Halloran, Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

Ari Kelman, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek (Harvard University Press, 2013).

Bruce Levine, The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South(Random House, 2013).

James Oakes, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (W.W. Norton, 2012).

Craig Symonds, The Civil War at Sea(Oxford University Press, 2012).

Daniel R. Weinfeld, The Jackson County War: Reconstruction and Resistance in Post-Civil War Florida (University of Alabama Press, 2012).

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akelman January 11, 2013 at 10:46 am 1

Thanks, Kevin! I really can’t wait to hear what you think of the book. Or maybe I can. I guess it depends on what you think of it. Regardless, it appears to be out of stock at Amazon — which is odd, because it’s not even scheduled to be in stock til Monday. Oh well.

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