A Celebration of First Edition, Rare, Small Press, and Collectible Books Pertaining to the American Civil War - by Paul Taylor
January 14, 2008
A Book Lover's Poll
I have often wondered what types of Civil War books others like to read, so I've set up a brief poll at the left of the screen. It will run for a week. Remember, no blue or red in this poll, just blue and gray. Thankee.
It is an interesting poll indeed. I'd respectfully suggest a few more categories (logistics, economic aspects, medicine, etc.), but as specialized studies I don;t know that they'd garner a large vote anyway. Among the choices you've provided, the soldier's letters topic is becoming my favorite, as I'm becoming an advocate of "bottom-up" history in many eras.
Another interesting question might be to see if people's favorite subject has changed over time. For my part, I ate up campiagn/battle histories when I first started reading about the war in earnest, but rarely pick them up now.
3 comments:
Paul - I like the poll. But, just getting to pick one is hard.
Regards,
Michael
www.michaelchardy.com
Thanks Michael. Life's full of tough choices! :-) Paul
Paul,
It is an interesting poll indeed. I'd respectfully suggest a few more categories (logistics, economic aspects, medicine, etc.), but as specialized studies I don;t know that they'd garner a large vote anyway. Among the choices you've provided, the soldier's letters topic is becoming my favorite, as I'm becoming an advocate of "bottom-up" history in many eras.
Another interesting question might be to see if people's favorite subject has changed over time. For my part, I ate up campiagn/battle histories when I first started reading about the war in earnest, but rarely pick them up now.
Keep up the great work!
Jim Schmidt
http://civilwarmed.blogspot.com
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