All posts tagged "civil war"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
January 28, 2025What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
January 21, 2025Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
January 21, 2025Army 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
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
October 24, 2024As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
August 23, 2024A 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)
August 22, 2024On 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)
August 18, 2024The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
August 7, 2024David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
July 3, 2024Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....