The Civil War Monitor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South
Jack D. NoeThe Civil War Monitor"Contesting Commemoration" by Jack Noe "elucidates the need for scholars...to fully address the way post-Civil War reunion and reconciliation changed memory of the Revolutionary era," writes Meredith Barber. Read more here: https://t.co/eqNmu51C10 #CivilWar #BookReview #books https://t.co/2H0rsVQ0WW
Hardcover, 2021
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
Sarah J. PurcellThe Civil War Monitor"Spectacle of Grief" by Sarah J. Purcell shows how "public funerals were high stakes events in the nineteenth century," writes Brian Matthew Jordan in our latest #BookReview. Read more about this "deeply researched and well-argued" book here: https://t.co/U5bHkCq1rl https://t.co/oWGUiPbIe1
Paperback, 2022
$37.50$18.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Carole EmbertonThe Civil War Monitor"To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" by Carole Emberton is "an elegantly written book that grapples with the lingering traumas of slavery," writes Cooper H. Wingert in our latest #BookReview. Read more about it here: https://t.co/un9ToKLO5g https://t.co/4h0ine2OJD
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Laura F. EdwardsThe Civil War Monitor"Only the Clothes on Her Back" by Laura F. Edwards is "full of stories and characters that help the reader to engage with the lives and experiences of everyday Americans in the early republic," writes Cecily Zander. Read more about it here: https://t.co/gdnxlP3uE1 https://t.co/uQvsolnLwG
Hardcover, 2022
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
Jonathan W. WhiteThe Civil War Monitor"A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House" by Jonathan White "is a work that will long deserve a place on the bookshelves of Civil War historians and enthusiasts," writes Cecily Zander. Read more about it here: https://t.co/07visPaX2H https://t.co/MRn7qVLVTD
Paperback, 2024
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Kidada E. WilliamsThe Civil War MonitorKidada E. Williams' "I Saw Death Coming" is "a necessity to anyone who wishes to understand the violent legacies of Reconstruction," writes Jennifer Andrella in our latest #BookReview. Read more here: https://t.co/pcfsqlx2M5 #CivilWar #Reconstruction https://t.co/pphLLoNW3B
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Our Comfort in Dying
Robert Lewis DabneyThe Civil War Monitor"Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermons by R.L. Dabney," ed. by Jonathan Peters, provides a "glimpse into the mind of a man who combined ministerial service ... with military service on behalf of Stonewall Jackson," writes Jonathan Steplyk. Read more: https://t.co/yUaP6sqrS9 https://t.co/bXg9KWn0Is
Paperback, 2021
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
Angela Esco ElderThe Civil War Monitor"Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss" by Angela Esco Elder "renders a...textured—and ultimately more human—history of Civil War widowhood," writes Brian Matthew Jordan in our latest #BookReview. Read more about it here: https://t.co/DKkVng2aIo https://t.co/W4HvZq3sYq
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Civil War: Fort Sumter to Appomattox
Gary GallagherThe Civil War MonitorThe essays in "Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works," ed. by Gary Gallagher and Stephen Cushman, "deliver on the promises set forth in the subtitle," writes Gordon Berg. Read more about it here: https://t.co/IBlX1DdyxS #CivilWar #BookReview https://t.co/P2UqzpRhF4
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Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers
Dillon CarrollThe Civil War MonitorDillon J. Carroll's "Invisible Wounds" is a "fascinating study that unequivocally illustrates the links between the Civil War and mental illness," writes Jonathan S. Jones. Read more about it here: https://t.co/OTJEhTYzhH #BookReview #twitterstorians https://t.co/X35wvdPd7C
Hardcover, 2021
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book