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.”
Read more about The […]
Richard T. Cahill Jr., author of Hauptmann’s Ladder is one of the experts interviewed in a new documentary on the Lindbergh kidnapping. Watch it here.
Click here to find out more about Hauptmann’s Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping.
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“Paul Taylor’s very welcome new book, THE MOST COMPLETE POLITICAL MACHINE EVER KNOWN: THE NORTH’S UNION LEAGUES IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. . . is by far the most detailed study of how they operated.”
Find out more about the book.
The Civil War Books Review looks at Paul Taylor’s “The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known”: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War.
“Dedicated to the perpetuity of a nation in the midst of its greatest existential crisis, Union League members collectively served as the Union’s greatest private defender. Better and more completely than anyone before, […]
“My guest is George R. Dekle Sr., former prosecutor and prolific author. He discusses his book, Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts, and draws comparisons between the Helen Pott’s husband, Carlyle Harris (who would be tried and convicted for her murder in the sensational New York case) and Ted Bundy, whom Dekle […]
Be sure to catch an informative interview with J. Gregory Acken, author of Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865 on PA Books, PCN Select.
See the interview (subscription required).
Read more about Blue-Blooded Cavalryman.
The New York Times has “rounded up some glorious new titles to keep any reader happy, hydrated and cool: pulse-pounding thrillers, delectable cookbooks, eerie true-crime stories to stand your hair on end.”
Amongst the hair raisers is KSUP’s The Belle of Bedford Avenue by Virginia A. McConnell.
“Everybody loves a bad girl — in crime stories, if […]
