Recent Acquisitions to My Library
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
9M ago
Dear Uncles: The Civil War Letters of Arthur McKinstry, a Soldier in the Excelsior Brigade, edited by Rick Barram Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South by Robert Bonner Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 by Robert J. Cook First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery by Ken Ellingwood To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and S ..read more
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Recent Acquisitions to My Library
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
10M ago
Letters to Belle: Civil War Letters and Life of Chicago Lawyer and Volunteer Colonel John A. Bross, 29th U.S. Colored Infantry, edited by Justine Bross Yildiz A Grand Terrible Dramma: From Gettysburg to Petersburg - The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed, edited by Eric A. Campbell The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont Emilie Davis's Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1 ..read more
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Books I Read in 2023
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
10M ago
For the past few year's I've shared my reading list from that year. I thought I would do the same this year. As I think I've mentioned before, my reasoning for doing this is to hopefully bring a previously unknown or overlooked book to someone’s attention, or just maybe, a listed title will strike enough curiosity in someone to encourage them to seek it out and read it. This year I bested last year’s total by thirteen books to make a total of 72.   Like last year, I’ve bolded the titles of the books that I found particularly interesting or enlightening, offered a fascinating argument, o ..read more
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Recent Acquisitions to My Library
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
11M ago
Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments, edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend by Joe Drape Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Abolitionist's Journal: Memories of an American Antislavery Family by James D. Richardson Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron The Civil War Letters of ..read more
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Recent Acquisitions to My Library
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
1y ago
Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 by Adele Logan Alexander From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery in the Civil War by Edward A. Altemos American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 by Edward L. Ayers Faces of Union Soldiers at Culp's Hill: Gettysburg's Critical Defense by Joseph Stahl and Matthew Borders The Bone Ring: Civil War Journals of Colonel William James Leonard by Gari Carter Stand Firm and Fire Low: The Civil War Writings of Colonel Edward E. Cross, edited by Walter Holden, William F. Ross, and ..read more
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Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
1y ago
Love and Duty: Confederate Widow and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18-21,1861 by John J. Hennessy Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves, edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White  From Western Virginia with Jackson to Spotsylvania with Lee: The Civil War Letters of St. Joseph Tucker Randolph, edited by Peter C. Luebke The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris, Jr.  Faces of Union Soldiers at Fredericksburg by Joseph Stahl and Matthew ..read more
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Recent Acquisitions to My Library
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
1y ago
Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry, edited by Robert Patrick Bender The 14th U.S. Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War: John Young Letters, edited by C. Russell Hunley Bound to be a Soldier: The Letters of Private James T. Miller, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-1864, edited by Jedediah Mannis and Galen R. Wilson No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame's Civil War by Mike Pride From a True Soldier and Son: The Civil War Letters of William C. H. Reeder, edited by Jack Reeder Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army: T ..read more
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Recent Acquisitions to My Library
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
1y ago
A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime by John Banks Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia by Karida L. Brown Letters of a Civil War Surgeon, edited by Paul Fatout On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade by Alan D. Gaff Voices from Company D: Daries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, Edited by G. Ward Hubbs Rethinking American Emancipation: Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom, edited by William A. Link and Ja ..read more
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Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
1y ago
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Kent Masterson Brown Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin Letters of a Civil War Soldier: Chandler B. Gilliam, 28th New York Volunteers, with Diary of W. L. Hicks, edited by Ellen C. Collier Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry, edited by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman, edited by David W. Lowe The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: A Chronicle of Daily Life in th ..read more
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Recent Acquisitions to My Library
Random Thoughts on History
by Tim Talbott
1y ago
Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist College and the Politics of Race by John Frederick Bell At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle by R. J. M. Blackett John Brown's Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859 by Jon-Erik M. Gilot and Kevin R. Pawlak Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat, edited by Kent Gramm Fighting with the Eighteenth Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of Thomas H. Mann, edited by John J. Hennessy Civil War Field Artiller ..read more
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