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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, New York, 2010, $27.50. Studies of Quanah Parker and the Comanches aren’t new. Pekka Hämäläinen put forth the Comanche Empire argument in his massive (and highly academic) The …
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The Fall of the House of DixieWhile Southerners found the ideal of independence appealing, at least in theory, the realities of war and want raised second thoughts. In a new book, historian Bruce Levine explain… Read MoreWomen on the Warpath “Bread or blood!” The cry rang out across the South in the starving spring of 1863, when a wave of violent food riots, all of them led by women, swept the Confederacy from Mo… Read MoreJohn Decatur Barry, He Killed StonewallJohn Decatur Barry was sure Federals were on the prowl, and ordered a response. On virtually every battlefield in the annals of warfare, uncertainty and clouded judgment have yield… Read MoreEmancipation jolts a slave and her mistressThe ink was barely dry on the Emancipation Proclamation when two Union soldiers rode into the yard of Virginia slaveholder Sigismunda Kimball and demanded the release of the slave … Read MoreTullahoma gets no respectCrucial gains in Tennessee are eclipsed by Vicksburg and Gettysburg in July 1863. Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans was entrenched—literally—in Murfreesboro. The nominal Union victory at… Read More
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