New to the Civil War Memory Library, 04/24
I regularly shared new book acquisitions on the old WordPress blog site. I plan on continuing to do so here unless I hear from enough of you that it is not newsletter-worthy. These are books that I have purchased or that have been sent as review copies by the publisher.
Note: Hyperlinks will take you to Indiebound.
Dillon J. Carroll, Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Louisiana State University Press, 2021).
Angela Esco Elder, Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Economic Politics of Loss (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
Nicholas Guyatt, The Hate Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison (Basic Books, 2022).
Michael Kazin, What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2022).
Roger Lowenstein, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Penguin Books, 2022).
R. Isabela Morales, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Matthew E. Stanley, Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War (University of Illinois Press, 2021).
David K. Thompson, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
Please feel free to share what you are currently reading, especially recently released history books. Let’s do what we can to support new books and their authors. Thanks.
Just started Levine's book on Thaddeus Stevens. And while not new, I a slowly making my through the three volumes by Ed Bearss on the Vicksburg Campaign.
I recently finished reading To Address as My Friend: African Americans' Letters To Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White. I found the book very interesting and the different circumstances in which Black soldiers and civilians attempted to reach out to Lincoln provided a good perspective of their experiences during the war. Also, I look forward to shared new book acquisitions because that was how I first discovered White's book.