Category: Civil War Books – Authors
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McFarland Civil War Book of the Week: The Causes of the Civil War: The Political, Cultural, Economic and Territorial Dispute Between North and South
The Causes of the Civil War: The Political, Cultural, Economic and Territorial Dispute Between North and South Author: Paul Calore TOCWOC’s Take: Paul Calore’s The Causes of the Civil War was written to “reduce the complex subject of sectionalism to its most fundamental form” and “to illustrate how the most troubling political, cultural, economic, and […]
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Civil War Book Review: The New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865
The New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865 edited by Harold Holzer & Craig L. Symonds Product Details Hardcover: 512 pages Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Har/Dvdr edition (October 13, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1579128459 ISBN-13: 978-1579128456 Events as they happen The New York Times is one of America’s oldest daily newspapers, being […]
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Civil War Book Review: Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign
Shea, William L. Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign. The University of North Carolina Press (November 15, 2009). 368 pages, 41 illustrations, 17 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3315-5 $35.00 (Cloth). How was the Confederacy able to find men, material, arms, ammunition, and food to defend Arkansas in the wake of Earl Van […]
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McFarland Civil War Book of the Week: William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent Civil War
William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent Civil War Author: Lawrence M. Denton TOCWOC’s Take: William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent War focuses on Seward’s efforts to prevent the Civil War from occurring during the Secession Winter of 1860-61. The author believes Seward might have prevented […]
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Civil War Book Review: Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861
Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 by Earl M. Maltz Product Details Hardcover: 362 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (November 3, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616667 ISBN-13: 978-0700616664 Given a choice of spending an afternoon reading legal history or in the dentist’s chair, many would have to think which would be worse. I approached […]
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Civil War Book Review: Creating a Confederate Kentucky
Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne Elizabeth Marshall Product Details Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 29, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 080783436X ISBN-13: 978-0807834367 Becoming Confederate E. Merton Coulter said Kentucky “waited until after the war was over to […]
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March 2011 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! March 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable looks at religion during the war.George C. Rable (Author) Strangling the Confederacy by Kevin Dougherty is not a new book but one that needs […]