Emerging Civil War reviews More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee by Jonathan Engel.
“Engel’s More Important Than Good Generals provides Civil War readers with yet another uncovered gem and treasure trove of source material to consult. While this study is exhaustive, one hopes this will only encourage further examination […]
“The Trump administration is silencing government-funded news outlets, including Voice of America. Voice of America chief national correspondent Steve Herman joins Ana Cabrera to speak out about the dismantling of his organization and share more on the vital work they do.”—MSNBC
Find out more about Steve Herman, VOA, and covering the White House in his new […]
Dune News Net provides an extensive look at Finding the Numinous: An Ecocritical Look at Dune and The Lord of the Rings, Willow Wilson DiPasquale’s latest book.
“Finding the Numinous provides a new lens through which to understand and appreciate Herbert’s works, and I look forward to applying that to my next reading of Dune – […]
Ancillary Review of Books reviews Finding the Numinous: An Ecocritical Look at Dune and The Lord of the Rings.
“Perhaps the most important contribution of Finding the Numinous is how it shows that Tolkien and Herbert’s worlds can inspire us to feel a renewed reverence for our own world. Furthermore, they compel us to work toward […]
Cleveland Magazine names John Vacha’s Playhouse Square and the Cleveland Renaissance one of “76 Books that Arrived from Cleveland’s Literary Scene in 2024”
“One of the city’s major pride points was the 1970s rejuvenation of Playhouse Square — an effort that had a ripple effect of Downtown Cleveland becoming the arts destination it is today. That history, and […]
Civil War Books and Authors looks at Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War by Ian T. Iverson.
“Iverson’s study seeks to reshape our understanding of the meaning of conservatism and its core appeal during the late-antebellum years. More from the description: “Most politicians and voters in […]
The History of Literature podcast interviews Reading Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary author Alex Vernon
“In this episode, Jacke talks to editor Alex Vernon about his line-by-line analysis of For Whom the Bell Tolls for the Reading Hemingway series. PLUS Sandra Spanier (series editor of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway project) stops by […]
Emerging Civil War reviews The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law by Peter Charles Hoffer.
“Hoffer’s research in The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips is thorough, his arguments are well-argued, and his interpretation of Phillips’s importance in American history will have more students of the Civil War-era reevaluating his unfortunately shadowed role […]
don’t miss this informative interview with Stephen Terrell, author of the new book The Madness of John Terrell: Revenge and Insanity on Trial in the Heartland.
In early 1900s Indiana, John Terrell was the wealthiest man in Wells County, thanks to oil discovered on his farm. But when his youngest daughter, Lucy, became pregnant and entered into a […]
TIMOTHY S. HUEBNER is the winner of the 2024 John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History in the past year. Huebner’s “Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest” is a masterpiece of scholarship that provides a definitive account of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s slave trading business before the Civil War and how and why he and his apologists tried so hard to downplay it for decades after. Huebner’s exhaustively researched and richly textured account reveals Forrest to have been an aggressive, large-scale trafficker in human beings whose Memphis operations in the 1850s expanded to among the largest and most lucrative in the South. Piecing together fragments of evidence about Forrest’s slave dealing, including from descendants of those he trafficked, Huebner’s research located the sites of Forrest’s operations in Memphis and led to a wider reckoning with this history in the city.
