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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 […]

March 3, 2011
Civil War Book Review: A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War

Sutherland, Daniel E. A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War. The University of North Carolina Press (July 1, 2009). 456 pp., 16 illustrations, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3277-6 $35.00 (Cloth). When people mention the Civil War, images of solid lines of opposing ranks firing volleys into their […]

June 1, 2010
Review: West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace

West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh (author) Product Details Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (October 15, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807832782 ISBN-13: 978-0807832783 Building a million plus man army is a gut wrenching task. In 1861, two nations set out […]

April 22, 2010
Civil War Books Available in UNC’s Fall Sale 2009

UNC Press is offering many Civil War books for 50% off in their Fall Sale 2009 event, running through November 20, 2009. Please head over and purchase some books. UNC Press is one of the very best Civil War book publishers among University presses. I have learned quite a bit from their catalogue of Civil […]

October 20, 2009
Review: A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction

A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (Civil War America) by Mark Wahlgren Summers Product Details Hardcover: 344 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (September 10, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807833045 ISBN-13: 978-0807833049 People who read history know how the story ends. We have read the last chapter of the […]

October 19, 2009
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 […]

May 21, 2009
Book Sales at the University of Tennessee Press and the University of North Carolina Press

Both the University of Tennessee Press and the University of North Carolina Press are offering Spring sales this month. The University of Tennessee Press is offering books for up to 70% off while the University of North Carolina Press is offering 50% off on more than 200 titles. Click the links above for more details. […]

May 12, 2009