Thomas J. Brown. Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 384 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5374-7.
Reviewed by Rory T. Cornish (Winthrop University) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54952
R. Scott Huffard.
Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 324 pp.
$32.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5281-8. 
Reviewed by Chris Fobare (Worcester State University) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Charles Postel.
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019. 400 pp.
$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-7963-6.
Reviewed by Virginia Summey (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Gary Clayton Anderson. Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. 384 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-6434-2.
Reviewed by Jimmy Sweet (Rutgers University) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Brett Grainger. Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 280 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-91937-2.
Reviewed by William S. Cossen (The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Lawrence L. Hewitt, Thomas Edwin Schott, eds. Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi: Volume 3: Essays on America's Civil War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2019. 374 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62190-454-0.
Reviewed by Zac Cowsert (West Virginia University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Joseph A. Fry. Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2019. 256 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-7712-0.
Reviewed by Sabrina Cervantez (Louisiana State University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
James A. Davis. Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Illustrations. 390 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-1072-2.
Reviewed by David K. Graham (Snow College) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Huston Horn. Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. 600 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2750-9.
Reviewed by Nicholas Yeakley (Texas Christian University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2020) Commissioned by Madeleine Forrest (Randolph-Macon College)
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Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. Marketing the Blue and Gray: Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 256 pp. $47.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7082-3.
Reviewed by Brian Matthew Jordan (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Jon D. Schaff. Abraham Lincoln's Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2019. 280 pp. $34.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3737-8.
Reviewed by Thomas C. Mackey (University of Louisville) Published on H-CivWar (February, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Thomas R. Flagel. War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2019. 192 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-371-4.
Reviewed by Kevin Caprice (University of Virginia) Published on H-CivWar (February, 2020) Commissioned by Madeleine Forrest (Randolph-Macon College)
Kevin M. Levin. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Illustrations. 240 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5326-6.
Reviewed by Kelly D. Mezurek (Walsh University) Published on H-CivWar (February, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Stephen V. Ash. Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 296 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5098-2.
Reviewed by Michael E. Woods (Marshall University) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
A. Wilson Greene. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 728 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3857-7.
Reviewed by Robert Sidwell (Kent State University) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2020) Commissioned by Madeleine Forrest (Randolph-Macon College)
