The Journal of Southern History back issues from November 2003:
A rejected alternative: Union policy and the relocation of southern "contrabands" at the dawn of emancipation.
Nov 01, 2003; ... HISTORIANS CONTINUE TO DISAGREE ABOUT HOW DEEPLY THE NEGATIVE attitudes of northern whites toward blacks influenced politics during the Civil War. Increasingly scholars do agree that powerful prejudice against blacks prevailed among white northerners of foreign and southern birth and ...
The crucible of disease: trauma, memory, and national reconciliation during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Nov 01, 2003; ... FEW SOUTHERN WHITES WERE MORE PASSIONATE ABOUT OR MORE DEDICATED to the Confederacy and the Lost Cause than Father Abram J. Ryan, a poet and Catholic priest in New Orleans and other southern cities. During the Civil War he served as a chaplain in the Confederate army exhorting his southern ...
The Columbians, Inc.: a chapter of racial hatred from the post-World War II South.
Nov 01, 2003; ... IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF OCTOBER 31, 1946, SOMEONE dynamited the front porch of Goldsmith and Minnie Sibley, African Americans who had recently bought their clapboard house on Ashby Street, in a previously all-white working-class neighborhood in Atlanta's West End. The bomb, ...
Racism: A Short History.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By George M. Fredrickson. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 207. $22.95, ISBN 0-691-00899-X.) In this fine interpretive volume George M. Fredrickson presents a sweeping survey of the "rise and decline" of racism in the modern ...
Florida's Frontiers.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Paul E. Hoffman. A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 470. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-34019-5.) The very concept of a history of the multilayered and shifting "Florida frontiers" (plural) between 1565 ...
Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c.2002. Pp. [xii], 259. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-2476-5.) Anthropologist Helen C. Rountree and archaeologist E. Randolph Turner III have written a general history of ...
Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographical Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Purry.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited and annotated by Arlin C. Migliazzo. Translated by Pierrette C. Christianne-Lovrien and 'BioDun J. Ogundayo. (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c. 2002. Pp. 201. $39.95, ISBN 1-57591-054-3.) This collection brings ...
Appalachia: A History.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By John Alexander Williams. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 473. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5368-2; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2699-5.) Given the proliferation of scholarship on Appalachia over the last twenty-five years, the time ...
Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Daniel D. Arreola. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 272. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-292-70511-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-292-70510-7.) In Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province ...
Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 400. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-374-9.) This fine collection of essays presents a useful, ...
From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712-1862.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Mark F. Fernandez. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xx], 135. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2705-1.) A widely held view insists that Louisiana's legal system shares little with the common-law practices and procedures prevalent elsewhere in the United States ....
Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited by Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley. Studies in the History of Education. (New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. Pp. xii, 364. $90.00, ISBN 0-415-93118-5.) Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley restore the private academy to its rightful place alongside common schools in the ...
Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 265. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8679-3; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3822-5.) Kirsten Fischer's study of colonial North Carolina is a provocative entry in the growing literature on a ...
In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Cara Anzilotti. Contributions in American History, No. 196. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. x, 216. $64.95, ISBN 0-313-32031-4.) Cara Anzilotti describes South Carolina planter-class women as selfless promoters of patriarchal values who stepped out of ...
Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Helen Bryan. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 417. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-15892-5.) In this first full-scale biography of Martha Washington published in over forty years, Helen Bryan seeks to replace the "bland domestic icon" created by earlier filiopietistic ...
Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Volumes I, II, and III. Edited by Ronald Hoffman, Sally D. Mason, and Eleanor S. Darcy. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; the Maryland Historical Society; and the Maryland State ...
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Martha L. Keber. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 312. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2360-8.) In Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton Martha L. Keber limns the fascinating life of Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825), a French mariner and nobleman ...
A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Philip N. Mulder. Religion in America Series. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. [x], 233. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-513163-0.) Once there was the New Light, observes Philip N. Mulder, and it promised ecumenical unity and expansive energy to a ...
Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Marjoleine Kars. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 286. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4999-5; cloth, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-2672-3.) Historians such as Jeffrey J. Crow, A. Roger Ekirch, Marvin L. Michael Kay, and James P. Whittenburg ...
Jefferson on Jefferson.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Paul M. Zall. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 160. $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-2235-X.) The author of Franklin on Franklin (Lexington, Ky., 2000) and Lincoln on Lincoln (Lexington, Ky., 1999) attempts to encapsulate the life of yet another historical ...
Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Thomas E. Chavez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 286. $29.95, ISBN 0-8263-2793-1.) Thomas E. Chavez, director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, naturally respects the importance of material culture to historical understanding, but he has ...
Neither Separate nor Equal: Congress in the 1790s.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801. (Athens, Ohio: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 344. $44.95, ISBN 0-8214-1327-9.) This volume is the ...
The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801. (Athens, Ohio: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 348. $44.95, ISBN 0-8214-1419-4.) The volume under ...
Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Joanne B. Freeman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 376. $29.95, ISBN 0-300-08877-9.) American historians still tend to describe the founding of the United States as a battle of ideas, in which quirks of individual character and feeling played ...
General Thomas S. Woodward and Woodward's Remininscences.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Don C. Marler. (Hemphill, Tex.: Dogwood Press, c. 2001. Pp. [iv], 335. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 1-887745-18-1.) General Thomas S. Woodward was well known in pre-Civil War America, although almost forgotten today. He was a close friend of President Andrew Jackson and was famous for ...
Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Diane Batts Morrow. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5401-8; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2726-6.) This is a welcome history of the origins and early years of the first community of black women religious of the ...
Emily Donelson of Tennessee.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Pauline Wilcox Burke. Edited by Jonathan M. Atkins. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 358. $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-137-2.) The 1960s feminist proclamation that "the personal is political" applies, with some allowances, to other eras and situations ....
Sam Houston.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By James L. Haley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 513. $39.95, ISBN 0-8061-3405-4.) By James L. Haley's count, there have been no fewer than sixty biographies of Sam Houston. But another is needed, he explains, because Houston the man remains an ...
Treasures of the Longleaf Pines: Naval Stores.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Carroll B. Butler. Illustrations by John Christian. (2d rev. ed.; Shalimar, Fla.: Tarkel Publishing, c. 1998. Pp. [xx], 270. $40.00, ISBN 0-9660620-0-0.) Historians of the American South have paid scant attention to the piney woods region, largely ignoring its timber products ...
Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Richard Bruce Winders. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 6. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. xxx, 172. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2801-3; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2800-5.) This volume is part of the publisher's American Crisis Series: Books ...
Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Graham Davis. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 92. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 304. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-189-9.) English historian Graham Davis provides a unique transatlantic perspective on a ...
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Robert E. May. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 426. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2703-7.) In this balanced, judicious, and readable account of U.S. filibustering from the 1820s to the 1860s, Robert E. May of Purdue University redesigns ...
Railroads and American Law.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By James W. Ely Jr. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 365. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1144-4.) No one but an expert in legal history will come to Railroads and American Law without a glazed look: what are court opinions and the intricacies of statutory provisions ...
A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited by James W. Ely Jr. (Knoxville: Published by the University of Tennessee Press and sponsored by the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, Inc., 2002. Pp. xvi, 459. $46.00, ISBN 1-57233-178-X.) Historians have neglected state judiciaries, although recently a few ...
Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia's First Chief Justice.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Paul DeForest Hicks. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. viii, 183. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2365-9.) Paul DeForest Hicks has produced a scholarly, spare biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867), an important figure in Georgia jurisprudence who ...
Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840-1940.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Harvey S. Teal. (Columbia: Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Caroliniana Library, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 415. $24.95, ISBN 1-57003-384-6.) Harvey S. Teal has produced a model reference work for anyone exploring photographic materials of South ...
Like a Sponge Thrown into Water: Francis Lieber's European Travel Journal of 1844-1845.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited with an introduction and commentary by Charles R. Mack and Ilona S. Mack. (Columbia: Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Caroliniana Library, c. 2002. Pp. [xxx], 193. $18.95, ISBN 1-57003-447-8.) To students of the antebellum South, Francis ...
Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Patrick Rael. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 421. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4967-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2638-3.) Patrick Rael's in-depth analysis of ...
Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Sharla M. Fett. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 290. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5378-X; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2709-6.) Since the 1970s, scholars such as Kenneth F. Kiple and Todd L. Savitt have ...
In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Claudia L. Bushman. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 292. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6725-8.) John Walker (1785-1867) was born and died in King and Queen County, Virginia. An eighth-generation farmer of family land along the Mattaponi River's ...
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Edward E. Baptist. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 392. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-53534; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2688-X.) Like other state studies of antebellum social and political development, Edward E. Baptist's Creating ...
Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist & Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By H. Parrott Bacot, Barbara SoRelle Bacot, Sally Kittredge Reeves, John Magill, and John H. Lawrence. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xviii], 135. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2642-X; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2641-1.) Plantations by the River: ...
Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer, with the assistance of Holly Byers Ochoa and Carol Faulkner. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2002. Pp. liv, 580. $55.00, ISBN 0-252-02674-8.) This volume is a needed addition to the literature on ...
Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 253. $24.95, ISBN 1-57441-146-2.) In this romantic biography Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis tells the story of Lucy Holcombe Pickens, the wife of Civil War governor Francis W. Pickens of ...
When Slavery was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By John Patrick Daly. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 207. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2241-4.) In recent years, historians of the South have explored the ways in which religion contributed to the development of southern culture, ...
Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Stephen R. Haynes. Religion in America Series. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 322. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-514279-9.) Stephen R. Haynes's new study admirably expands on Thomas V. Peterson's Ham and Japheth: The Mythic World of Whites in the ...
Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Stephen John Hartnett. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 230. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02722-1.) This slender volume analyzes several loosely related debates of the mid-nineteenth century regarding capitalism and abolition, proslavery positions, ...
The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Demetrius L. Eudell. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 238. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5345-3; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2680-4.) The aftermath of emancipation in the U.S. South and the British Caribbean was similar in a variety of ...
Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By William C. Davis. (New York and other cities: The Free Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 484. $35.00, ISBN 0-684-86585-8.) For all the words poured onto paper about the Civil War, there have been few histories of the Confederacy, and even fewer are still in print. Despite many new ...
Confederates Against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Jon L. Wakelyn. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 189. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97364-6.) Southern support for the Confederacy was certainly not monolithic. In recent years historians have analyzed how Unionists, reluctant Confederates, guerrillas, women, and ...
The Loyal, True, and Brave: America's Civil War Soldiers.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. xii, 222. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8420-2931-1; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2930-3.) This book is a collection that places soldiers' accounts of their Civil War experiences alongside excerpts from the works of ...
Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Harold S. Wilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 412. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-462-7.) For years Civil War scholars regarded "Confederate industrialization" as an oxymoron: the moonlight-and-magnolia myth pervaded historical accounts. Despite a few ...
Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Terrie Dopp Aamodt. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 236. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-738-6.) As Terrie Dopp Aamodt emphasizes in Righteous Armies, Holy Cause, apocalyptic beliefs, ideas, and images not only permeated the culture of the United States in the ...
Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By William Lee Miller. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Pp. xvi, 515. $30.00, ISBN 0-375-40158-X.) In early 1865 Abraham Lincoln, exasperated by the internecine violence that continued in Missouri despite the departure of all organized Confederate troops, ventured to offer the ...
The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Mark E. Neely Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 257. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-00742-5.) Mark E. Neely Jr. revives debate over the role of political parties in the Civil War by challenging one of the most interesting explanations of ...
Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By William B. Feis. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 330. $39.95, ISBN 0-8032-2005-7.) William B. Feis's new study contributes both to the history of military intelligence during the Civil War and to the role of intelligence in Ulysses S ....
Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Clayton E. Jewett. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 310. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1390-1.) Clayton E. Jewett offers a new interpretation of the attitudes and actions of Texans during the Civil War, describing ...
Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Nelson Lankford. (New York and other cities: Viking, 2002. Pp. viii, 312. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03117-8.) This is not the first book to tell the story of the fall of Richmond as the capital of the Confederate States of America. In addition to the accounts of eyewitnesses like ...
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By George C. Rable. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 671. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2673-1.) On the surface, Fredericksburg was a simple battle. "Without strategy or tactics to speak of, it was a series of gallant ...
The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4, 1863.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Duane Schultz. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 447. $27.95, ISBN 0-393-04870-5.) Books on the Civil War have addressed increasingly specific topics in recent years. First came Joseph E. Stevens's 1863: The Rebirth of a Nation (New York, 1999), ...
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Noah Andre Trudeau. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c. 2002. Pp. [xxii], 694. $34.95, ISBN 0-06-019363-8.) Here is an unusual if not unique book about the battle of Gettysburg. Though it does not reveal anything of major importance that was previously unknown about the ...
The Bombardment of Charleston, 1863-1865.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By W. Chris Phelps. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. 175. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-58980-028-1.) "At first I thought a meteor had fallen," wrote British war correspondent Frank Vizetelly. "But another awful rush and whir right over the hotel, and another ...
War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor; Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor. By David A. Mindell. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 187. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8018-6250-7; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-6249-3.) Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History ...
Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Edward G. Longacre. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. xii, 468. $36.95, ISBN 0-8117-0898-5.) Carefully based on contemporary Civil War memoirs, recent biographies, official records, regimental histories, and pertinent manuscript archives, Lee's Cavalrymen is a ...
Galloping Thunder: The Story of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2003; ... By Robert J. Trout. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. xiv, 786. $44.95, ISBN 0-8117-0707-5.) Robert J. Trout's comprehensive study is not a unit history in the sense of Robert K. Krick's Parker's Virginia Battery, C.S.A. (Berryhill, Va., 1975). J. E. B. Stuart's ...