Civil War News offers up this insightful review of Paul Taylor’s The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War.
“Paul Taylor has produced a thoroughly researched tome that finally moves the Union Leagues from an historical footnote to an essential tool in winning the minds and hearts of Northerners […]
Author Lincoln A. Mitchell discusses his new book, Baseball Goes West: the Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues.
Originally aired on KTLA 5 Weekend Morning News on Sunday, January 13, 2019.
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“Local author Jason Prufer joined Brad Savage in studio to tell us about his soon-to-be released new book Small Town, Big Music which highlights Kent, Ohio’s contribution to the world of rock ‘n’ roll”
In this audio interview, Prufer goes into detail on the city of Kent, Kent State, and why so many top-notch acts performed on […]
Join Around Akron host Blue Green in this video interview of Jason Prufer, author of Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll. Prufer speaks about how his passion for music and local history inspired him to write his first book.
“Just how nonprofessionalized, unregulated and fractious an enterprise medicine was in Buchanan’s time is difficult to imagine now. The chief qualification for practicing it was success in getting other people to call you ‘Doctor.’ The requirements for opening a medical school were equally rigorous.” writes Scott McLemee in his review of David Alan Johnson’s Diploma Mill: The […]
Civil War Librarian posts an informative review of
At the Forefront of Lee’s Invasion: Retribution, Plunder, and Clashing Cultures on Richard S. Ewell’s Road to Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra.
“Wynstra’s At The Forefront of Lee’s Invasion is a splendid effort and achieves a bit of suspense in regard to the Confederates’ approach to Gettysburg.”
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Great start to the new year! “Our Little Monitor” by Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White and At the Forefront of Lee’s Invasion by Robert Wynstra have been singled out as best of 2018 in their categories by Civil War Books and Authors.
Don’t miss this informative podcast with Jonathan W. White discussing his book “Our Little Monitor”: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War, co-written by Anna G. Holloway.
“In this interview Professor White discusses the design and development of the Monitor, the famous Battle of Hampton Roads, the conditions under which crews served, and the popular memory of […]
The latest Civil War Monitor magazine includes this insightful review of “This Infernal War”: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard, edited by Timothy Mason Roberts.
“The correspondence of William and Jane Standard is unusual in several respects. At age forty, William Standard was much older than the typical Union volunteer. Nor was he an […]
Don’t miss this extensive interview with Baseball Goes West author Lincoln Mitchell at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.
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