Category: Civil War Books – New
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Civil War Book Review: The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta
The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta by Gary Ecelbarger Product Details Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (November 23, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 031256399X ISBN-13: 978-0312563998 The Battle of Atlanta is assuming the status of a major event in American history. Modern historians are looking at the battle as a crucial event […]
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Civil War Book Review: Railroads of the Civil War: An Illustrated History
Railroads of the Civil War: An Illustrated History by Michael Leavy Product Details Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Westholme Publishing; 1 edition (December 15, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1594161194 ISBN-13: 978-1594161193 To a world moving by muscle, wind or river current steam changed everything, freeing and speeding movement in ways we cannot image. While riverboats captured […]
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April 2011 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! April 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina by David Silkenat, is an excellent social history looking these events in North Carolina from about 1840 to 1905. Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in […]
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Civil War Book Review: Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath
Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath (New Directions in Southern History) edited by Andrew L. Slap Product Details Hardcover: 390 pages Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky (May 4, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0813125812 ISBN-13: 978-0813125817 Reconstruction is one of the most contentious areas in American history, depending on who is talking: Reconstruction is the […]
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Civil War Book Review: Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg
Editor’s Note: For more information on the Siege of Petersburg, be sure to visit The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater! *** Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg by Earl J. Hess Product Details Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (September 30, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1570039224 ISBN-13: 978-1570039225 […]
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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 […]