Carol Mundy welcomes David Nolin, author of Discovery and Renewal on Huffman Prairie, Where Aviation Took Wing. The book follows the history of the land that is now known as Huffman Prairie and Wright’s Flying Field. Looking at it from before Ohio was a state to today as a National Park’s Heritage Site with it’s restored […]

The Journal of American History reviews Interpreting American History: The New South, edited by James S. Humphreys.
From their March 2019 issue:

“This collection provides a comprehensive and lucid overview of the historical and intellectual literature associated with the group of Americans known as southerners.”
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Don’t miss this great interview with Zoar author Kathleen Fernandez by CantonRep.com.
“Former Zoar historical site manager Kathleen M. Fernandez knew there was a need for an in-depth history of the Separatist communal society long before she penned her new book, Zoar: The Story Of An Intentional Community.
Despite the Zoar Society of Separatists’ relatively lengthy existence […]

The Spring 2019 issue of Civil War Book Review looks at Angela Zombek’s Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War.
“A powerfully researched comparative study of prisons and punishment in mid-nineteenth century America.”
The full article can be found here.

The Spring 2019 issue of Civil War Book Review has a great write-up of Paul Taylor’s “The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known”: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War.
“In twelve well-designed, masterfully researched, and accessibly written chapters that trace the Union League movement from its antebellum antecedents to its various Reconstruction Era iterations, Paul […]

Kathleen Fernandez speaks to the Times Reporter about her new book Zoar: The Story of an Intentional Community.
“Her book tells the story of how a group of German religious dissenters immigrated to Ohio in 1817. Settling in Tuscarawas County, they established the communal Society of Separatists at Zoar. The society lasted until 1898, when it was […]

The Bowery Boys Podcast features a text review of The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Virginia McConnell
“McConnell’s provocative tick-tock of events following the murder illustrates New Yorkers’ cynical thirst for violent delights and a justice system very much influenced and even constrained by morality of the day.”
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