All posts tagged "civil war"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
December 28, 2025A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
December 27, 2025On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
December 23, 2025The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
December 12, 2025David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
November 6, 2025Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
History
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
August 14, 2025The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
History
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
July 13, 2025This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
July 11, 2025These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Art
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
June 8, 2025The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
May 26, 2025In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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