Category: Social History
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REVIEW: Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer by Matthew J. Grow Jan 19, 2009 368 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 16 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300136104 ISBN-10: 0300136102 Cloth: $40.00 Matthew Grow’s new book Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer is a bio of one of the little known but […]
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In The Review Queue: Death in the Trenches, Border War, and Civil War Guerrillas
The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog. These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. I received three new Civil War books to review […]
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Thoughts on Struggle for the Shenandoah as The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 Goes to Paperback
Drew Wagenhoffer’s review of the paperback version of The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 yesterday led me to go back and read my own multi part summary of the *other* Gary Gallagher produced 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign book Struggle for the Shenandoah , including a review and a bibliography of the campaign. Before Gallagher was […]
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Drummers and Musicians
You never know where you’ll stumble across Civil War material. I came across some interesting info at the National Music Museum, which has a short bio of Avery Brown, said to be the youngest man (boy?) to enlist during the war. Although they seldom rate a mention, musicians were an important part of the army. […]
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Short Takes
T’is the season for stimuli, and the latest to offer one is Civil War Standard, which is doing a clean-out-the-warehouse sale. Speaking of which, Zubal Books, which has a strong Civil War section, is also having a sale. All orders received over $20.00 will receive a 10% discount (shipping charges not included) All orders received […]
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Civil War Tokens
You can buy a lot of expensive gold and silver coins at American Precious Metals Exchange, but you can also buy Civil War tokens of various of various kinds. Their web site explains that: … economic pressures were felt as early as 1862 when the phenomenon known as Gresham’s Law took effect and the public […]
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Authentic Southern Cuisine—in Detroit
Once the booming capital of the auto industry, Michigan in general and Detroit in particular have fallen on hard times. Michigan has lost half a million people since 2001 and continues to lose something like 20,000 a year to out-migration. Detroit, once a city of two million but now down to less than half that, […]