Book of the Week


Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South
by Michael T. Bernath

Now available in paperback, hardcover, & e-book

"Finally puts to rest the notion that the Confederacy was an intellectual wasteland and that Confederates had nothing to say aside from their rebel yell."
--Journal of American History
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Interview: Bland Simpson on Two Captains from Carolina

Bland Simpson, author of Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War, reveals how the stories of two men can tell the saga of race in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. [...]

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The Hollywood Treatment of the Civil War

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In this interview, Gary W. Gallagher, author of Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, discusses the different versions of history we learn at the movies.

Q: Your book looks at the way that popular understandings of the Civil War have been shaped by four [...]

Decoration Day

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An interview with folklorist Alan Jabbour on the origins of Memorial Day [...]

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On the Birthday of U. S. Grant

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An interview with Grant biographer Joan Waugh [...]

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