Civil War Bookshelf

After Nov. 1, my routines changed and I have not been able to read and keep up with the expanding world of ACW blogging. I hope to get a new...

His name is Spencer Henderson. He is Baltimore's most accomplished privy hunter. As hobbies go, privy hunting is not pretty. It's no...

This story makes me ill: " Easement, perhaps a few homes planned for Civil War era fort ." Just a few multimilliondollar homes her...

This freelance writer has his eye on one of those battlefields not included in the master narratives of the Civil War: Piedmont seems desti...

... I'm too busy tonight to write a short letter, so forgive this long one. In putting together this year's Civil War Book News , I ...

NEWS | Old Gettysburg Village to lose four of its shops * Benton considers historic commission to deal with 80+ ACW sites * Lowry exploi...

Civil War Book News has been updated halfway through April 2005 with more to come.   By the way, whew.   Lots of titles, especially wit...

Isn't it funny that veteran Lincoln scholar Hans Trefousse got his First Among Equals out before Team of Rivals appeared? The publish...

Even the Washington Post's ahistorical, live-in-the-moment journalists are smelling the coffee :   "Imagine after the Battle of ...

NEWS | Civil War Museum may benefit from Washington bill * Kentucky's statue struggle stems from Civil War * Edgecombe County moves ...

... is finally being updated. About 10 minutes after this post goes up, I should have Jan/Feb listings published . Am shooting for June to b...

One of the interesting side-effects of the success of the Gingrich-Forstchen alternative histories of Gettysburg – Forstchen being an establ...

NEWS | No news today

After a lifetime in teaching, you would expect a world-famous professor - generally thought to be God's gift to Civil War studies - to h...

NEWS | School House Ridge property acquired for Harpers Ferry National Historical Park * State funds sought for museum, White House of th...

Ah, there's a mundane explanation for why the Pal Benko book is so good. I found this at Chess Cafe: IM Jeremy Silman (the "Sil...

NEWS | National Park Service shows interest in Pemberton Civil War home * Civil War cyclorama to be restored   * Buffs clean up Fort D in...

I stopped by Reston's Barnes & Noble to see if I could find Goodwin's new book Team of Rivals and her Lincoln quote "What...

McClellan Society member Harry Smeltzer notes that ... I have to take issue with the criticism of her (Goodwin's) use of the term ...

Drudge is reporting today that Goodwin's Team of Rivals has passed 79,000 copies in sales. HNN is using the opportunity to remind us o...