Glenn David Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Thomas J. Brown, ed., Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). David Glassberg, Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (University [...]
Books
A number of you have emailed me about the possibility of purchasing signed copies of Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder. I just agreed to do a book signing at the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago on July 28. You should be able to secure a signed copy through their Virtual [...]
No other academic press series has taught me more about the Civil War era over the past twelve years than Gary Gallagher’s Civil War America, which is published by the University of North Carolina Press. He managed to bring together some of the most talented historians, many of who studied under Gallagher at either Penn State [...]
A Sad Note This Holiday Season has been particularly difficult for my former colleagues and students and the close knit community that is the St. Anne’s – Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Although I am no longer working there I join them in mourning the loss of some wonderful people. Today I learned of the [...]
Yes, it’s a slow day here at Civil War Memory. Not all of the credits that I earn as an Amazon affiliate go to purchasing the latest Civil War scholarship. I don’t read much Civil War fiction, but when I do I like to curl up with a book that reminds me of the war’s [...]
I have a huge stack of books that have yet to be cracked open, including the titles listed below, but I put them all on hold to read Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Random House, 2010). It’s beautifully written and I can’t [...]
Yesterday I received the latest issue of The Civil War Monitor magazine. I’ve only had a chance to skim through it, but the layout and content look great. This issue includes essays by Glenn LaFantasie, James Marten, Steven Newton, and a pictorial piece by Ronald Coddington. I recently purchased a 2-year subscription and I encourage [...]
Earl Hess’s productivity over the past five years is nothing short of mind-boggling. Imagine my surprise when UNC Press mailed me the latest in their Littlefield History of the Civil War series. While most people are still getting through his trilogy on Civil War earthworks Hess has released three more. Virginia M. Adams, On the [...]
