All posts tagged "civil war"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
July 11, 2026Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
Military
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
May 21, 2026Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
May 20, 2026Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2026The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
February 27, 2026As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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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Books
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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Books
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,...
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