The personal sacrifice of soldiers in war often gets lost in military histories, and Jordan's moving account of the 107th Ohio is a welcome corrective.
Seidule openly confronts his own indifference to racism, and this absorbing book will be of value to anyone interested in how history informs our present.
Woodard is a gifted historiographer, and this excellent work will be appreciated by anyone interested in American history and how it came to be written.
Readers with an interest in reflective philosophical history will appreciate this book. Those looking for a more straightforward narrative of the period and how the two world wars relate might find Ian Kershaw’s To Hell and Back a better choice.
By telling the important, yet often-overlooked story of how enslaved women fought for their rights, and how white women often upheld the status quo, Glymph has written a refreshing, much-needed account of Civil War historiography.
This book provides a thought-provoking contrast to Richard Gamble's The War for Righteousness, which details Wilson's idealism as the cause for America's entrance into the war and Jeanette Keith's Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight, which describes the lack of support for the war, at least in the rural South.