All posts tagged "civil war"
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
June 12, 2020Never 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
May 24, 2020Lincoln 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
April 28, 2020What 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
April 26, 2020Biography, 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
April 26, 2020Army 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
April 18, 2020The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
April 18, 2020As 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)
April 16, 2020A 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)
April 16, 2020On 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)
April 16, 2020The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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