By now many of you have heard that T.J. Stiles’s biography of George A. Custer won this year’s Pulitzer Prize. This was his second. I reviewed the book for The Daily Beast and thoroughly enjoyed it. This is Stiles’s second Pulitzer.
As much of an achievement as that is, I am even more excited for Brian Matthew Jordan, who was named a finalist for his book, Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War. It is beautifully written and thought provoking. Last semester I taught it in my research seminar at the American Antiquarian Society and students thoroughly enjoyed it. I suspect that this is going to open many doors for Brian and I look forward to congratulating him in person in Gettysburg this summer.
Candice Shy Hooper, Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War for Better and for Worse (Kent State University Press, 2016).
Sean M. Kelley, The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).
Austin Reed, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict (Random House, 2016).
Andres Resendez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin, 2016).
Thanks, Kevin….looking forward to seeing you soon!!
You are very welcome, Brian.
Brian Jordan’s book is terrific.
Agreed. Here is a post I wrote about it back in 2014.