My copy of Allen Guelzo’s new book, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion will arrive later this afternoon. I will likely dive right in. I’ve read all of Guelzo’s books and have learned a great deal. Yesterday the Civil War Monitor published a review of the book by Will Greene. At first I stayed away not wanting [...]
Books
What happens when you bring a radio talk show host, who hasn’t thought about the Civil War since High School and a historian, who has been studying it for five years? What is truly miraculous is that in the process Thomas Fleming was able to produce “A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil [...]
Linda Barnickel, Milliken’s Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory, (Louisiana State University Press, 2013). Earl J. Hess, Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign, (University of North Carolina Press, 2013). William A. Link, Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath, (University of North Carolina [...]
Howard Bahr, THE BLACK FLOWER: A Novel of the Civil War, (Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1997). Ronald S. Coddington, African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Michele Gillespie, Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South, (University of Georgia Press, 2013). [...]
On Thursday I head to Charlottesville to take part in the Virginia Festival of the Book. I’ve been looking forward to this event for the past six months. As many of you know I lived and taught there for ten years. It’s one of my favorite events of the year and one that I hoped [...]
…apparently very little. With the Future of Civil War History conference right around the corner it should come as no surprise that I’ve had Gettysburg on my mind. I am also looking forward to a return visit in June for the annual Civil War Institute, which will focus on the battle of Gettysburg. With the [...]
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 [...]
Update: Thanks again everyone. Sold a total of 10 copies on the first day. You can now purchase my book, Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder, directly from me for the low price of $25 plus $3.00 shipping. Just click the “Buy Now” button below and you will be taken to my [...]
