No comments about Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation (Library Alabama Classics).

1 comments about The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography).

1. This book is TOTALLY AWESOME! It shows us just how brave Velazques was when fighting in the Aerican Civil War. I admit it was hard to read, but worth all the words I had to look up! If you haven't read it yet, you're missing out on the best historical narrative by far!

No comments about John Quincy Adams and the Public Virtues of Diplomacy.

No comments about Growing Up With Featherbeds, Kerosene Lamps, and Potbelly Stoves.

1 comments about Henry James: A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics).

1. Now that the University of Nebraska Press has undertaken to publish the complete James correspondence, these one-volume samplers can be relieved of the artificial responsibility to do the impossible - that is, tell the whole story in 600 pages or less.

   Horne's effort suffers in comparison to Edel's by its self-imposed mandate to favor previously unpublished letters. (Personally, I found these almost invariably of lesser interest. It looks like Edel skimmed the cream.) But his cannily selected interstitial material makes it a far more rewarding reading experience. I would say this now stands as the best introduction to the subject.

   And for what it's worth: the Penguin Classics paperback edition is a very nice piece of manufacture - comfortably sized in dimension and font.

1 comments about Isaac Johnson From Slave to Stonecutter.

1. The purpose for my search for Isaac Johnson was interesting because like artwork it is controversial in nature and ignites various responses. The review of Isaac Johnson of Kentucky is very similar to most Black Americans. Therefore, I'm very interested to know more information about him. His siblings names, Also, who his wife was. Your review in my opinion is not funny, as some reviews have said. By his father being a slave owner and his mother a slave shows that she was not in love with him; in fact most likely taken to him. His father selling them into slavery and his mother back into slavery tells the bitter truth of why so many black people are angry and bitter. Yet, through the belief in a higher power is why so many are strong, love all and continue to endure. To know your history is to know yourself. This story is interesting and should be told as well as others like this. Hopefully Isaac Johnson of Kentucky found his siblings and his wife in Canada. Thank God he escaped without death or else that would have been another generation lost. "God, forgive them for they know not what they have done." Black America has always accepted interracial children as there own people, because the government and the people of our country didnot. This is nothing new. (interracial children)It appears that the government and religious leaders are now more accepting because of the benefits it may bring.

No comments about George McClellan: The Disposable Patriot.

1 comments about The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace.

1. Big-Foot Wallace is a true Texas icon. He was on the famous Miers Expedition which explored West Texas. He also served as one of the original Texas Rangers. The reader does't know if what he reads in the story actually happend. Much of if did, but Duval added some stories to make it a better yarn. The humor is dry and understated fitting with typical West Texas sensiblity.

1 comments about The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and Reporters of The New York Times.

1. While the excerpts from the New York Times are valuable and instructive in themselves, this book is disappointing for what it does not have--any valuable input from McPherson. He adds about one paragraph at the beginning of each chapter, information summing up the war at that period, available in any encyclopedia. The Times text is totally un-annotated. There are no notes to identify individuals mentioned in the reports or the reporters who sometimes left their initials at the end of their text. Anyone interested in how the war was covered is left searching other sources for information.

No comments about John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church.