New To the Civil War Memory Library, 03/02
by Kevin Levin on March 2, 2013 ·
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Howard Bahr, The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War, (Picador, 2006).
William A. Dobak, Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867
, (Center of Military History, 2011).
Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
, (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Harold Holzer and Sara Vaugn Gabbard eds., 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year
, (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013).
Walther Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
, (Harvard University Press, 2012).
Rhonda Kolh, The Prairie Boys Go to War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1865
, (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013).
Margot Minardi, Making Slavery History: Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts
, (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Joshua D. Rothman, Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
, (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis, The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On
, (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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Some interesting books here. The ones that appeal to me the most are Johnson’s, and the Hager and Stauffer books.
The Johnson book is a bear. I am probably going to wait until the summer to read it. The Stauffer book came as and Advanced Proof and won’t be released until the summer. It looks interesting as well.
A bear in what way: dense?
Dense and long…all good, though. Just need to find the right time to read it.
Over at the Junto blog, http://earlyamericanists.com/, several of the contributors reviewed River of Dark Dreams this week.