All posts tagged "civil war"
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History
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 24, 2022In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 9, 2022Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
July 18, 2022Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Biography
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
June 3, 2022What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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History
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
May 29, 2022Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
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History
The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
May 27, 2022Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of...
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Books
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2022The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
February 26, 2022As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
November 8, 2021A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
November 7, 2021On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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