Book Review – Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Eaton edited by Michael J. Larson and John David Smith Review by Andrew F. Lang Amid the welter of post-Civil War reminiscences, John...
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Book Review – Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War
Book Review: Getting Right With Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions About Our Greatest President and Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered
Book Review Getting Right With Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions About Our Greatest President by Edward Steers Jr. Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered by William C. Harris Review by Jason Emerson There’s...
Book Review: Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail
Book Review: Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail by Candice Shy Hooper Review by Frank W. Garmon Jr. Although Absalom H. Markland is an unknown figure in the twenty-first century, his life intersected with many of the leading...
Book Review: William E. Bartelt and Joshua A. Claybourn, Abe’s Youth; J. Edward Murr, Abraham Lincoln’s Wilderness Years
William E. Bartelt & Joshua A. Claybourn: Abe’s Youth: Shaping the Future President J. Edward Murr, edited by Joshua Claybourn: Abraham Lincoln’s Wilderness Years: Collected Works of J. Edward Murr Review Essay by Andrew F. Lang The “Lincoln legend” goes...
Book Review: Edward Achorn, The Lincoln Miracle
Edward Achorn, The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention that Changed History Book Review by Phelps Gay Sixty-three years ago, the Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission published a three-volume work called Lincoln Day by Day, A Chronology, 1809-1865, edited by Earl Schenck...
Book Review: Jon Meacham, And There Was Light
Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Book Review by Phelps Gay Not just another cradle-to-grave biography setting forth well-known facts of Lincoln’s life, And There Was Light offers us a fresh look at...
Book Review: Caroline E. Janney, Ends of War
Caroline E. Janney, Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox Reviewed by Burrus M. Carnahan How can a democracy turn from a state of civil war to a state of peace? After April 9, 1865, US military...
Book Review: Diana Schaub, His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation
Diana Schaub, His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation Reviewed by Burrus Carnahan Diana Schaub has written a thought-provoking book that may be the first of a new genre of Lincoln studies – reflections on his ideas in the context...
Book Review: Lucas Morel, Lincoln and the American Founding
Lucas Morel, Lincoln and the American Founding Reviewed by Burrus M. Carnahan In the fall of 2020, Professor Lucas Morel of Washington and Lee University spoke at the University of Colorado on “The 1619 Project as Missed Opportunity.” His point...
Book Review: The Calculus of Violence by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Sheehan-Dean, The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War For decades, historians have debated whether the American Civil War was the first modern, total war, foreshadowing the World Wars of the 20th Century, or whether it was...
Book Review: Lincoln in Private by Ron White
Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President By Ronald C. White, 2021 Book Reviewed by: E. Phelps Gay In this short, highly readable volume, Ronald C. White examines “fragments” left behind by our...
Every Drop of Blood—The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
Every Drop of Blood—The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln By Edward Achorn (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020) Book review by E. Phelps Gay Do we need another book about Lincoln’s Second Inaugural? After all, didn’t Ronald C. White, Jr....