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Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 Our republic was born in reaction to populist anger. Enraged that uppercrust Bostonians got rich speculating on government bonds and promissory notes while small landholders faced draconian taxes and foreclosures as Massachusetts scrambled to pay off Revolutionary War debts, Daniel …
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CWT Book Review: The Letters of General Richard S. EwellThe Letters of General Richard S. Ewell: Stonewall’s Successor Edited by Donald C. Pfanz, University of Tennessee Press Donald Pfanz’s Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life (199… Read MoreWinfield Scott’s Last MissionIll and far from home, the old warrior still managed to aid his war-torn nation. Two men going in different directions, both literally and figuratively, stood on the train platform… Read MoreDying to Be FreeMany escaped slaves succumbed to an implacable new foe: smallpox. On Christmas Eve 1862, Julia Wilbur, a freedman’s aid worker in Washington, D.C., wrote to her family in upstate N… Read MoreCWT Book Review: Confrontation at GettysburgConfrontation at Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, a Cause Lost John David Hoptak, The History Press John David Hoptak puts his cards on the table at the beginning of Confrontation at Ge… Read More‘Texas Need Not Feel Ashamed’A stirring firsthand account of the Texas Brigade’s winning charge at the Battle of Gaines’ Mill. In 1964 Texas historian and essayist R. Henderson Shuffler stumbled upon a letter … Read More
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