Emerging Civil War offers informative and affordable books

If your Civil War summer reading’s getting a little stale or pricey, check out the informative and affordable Emerging Civil War Series.

An online blog publishing multiple posts each week, Emerging Civil War “serves as a public history-oriented platform for sharing original scholarship related to the Civil War,” the non-profit organization indicates at https://emergingcivilwar.com,

Under editor-in-chief Chris Mackowski, who has Maine connections, the editors and authors focus on non-fiction scholarship: “historical research, memory studies, travelogues, personal narratives, essays, book reviews, and photography.”

“Bloody Autumn” is among the many Civil War titles available through the Emerging Civil War Series.

Coverage also entails “current Civil War-related events and the Civil War in pop culture.”

The Civil War is America’s great story,” ECW states. “We want to introduce as many people as possible to that history by telling the war’s many great stories in fresh new ways,” especially through the Emerging Civil War Series.

Filled with detailed maps, more than 150 photographs and images, and well-written narratives, each ECWS title focuses on a battle, campaign, personage, or other war-related topic, such as the Union prisoner-of-war camp at Elmira, N.Y. or how Ulysses S. Grant came to write his memoirs.

Both the Eastern and Western theaters are well represented, and the battle-and-campaign books include tour routes and descriptions.

All ECWS books are priced at $14.95 (plus shipping), an affordable price for Civil War buffs carefully managing their book-purchasing funds.

“The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson” is among the Civil War biographies offered by Emerging Civil War Series.

Savas Beatie, a California-based independent publisher, prints the Emerging Civil War Series and other military books. Disclaimer: Emerging Civil War and Savas Beatie are publishing my upcoming Joshua L. Chamberlain wartime biography, Passing Through the Fire, but I bought and read ECWS books long before the JLC bio took shape.

For Civil War readers also interested in the American Revolution, ECW recently introduced the Emerging Revolutionary War Series, with the books styled similarly to the ECWS books. The Revolutionary War Series is also available through Savas Beatie.

Check out the publisher’s website at https://savasbeatie.com/. Click on “Books” to discover the many available titles. Book ordering is easy, and Savas Beatie ships quickly.


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Brian Swartz can be reached at visionsofmaine@tds.net. He enjoys hearing from Civil War buffs interested in Maine’s involvement in the war.

Brian Swartz

About Brian Swartz

Welcome to "Maine at War," the blog about the roles played by Maine and her sons and daughters in the Civil War. I am a Civil War buff and a newspaper editor recently retired from the Bangor Daily News. Maine sent hero upon hero — soldiers, nurses, sailors, chaplains, physicians — south to preserve their country in the 1860s. “Maine at War” introduces these heroes and heroines, who, for the most part, upheld the state's honor during that terrible conflict. We tour the battlefields where they fought, and we learn about the Civil War by focusing on Maine’s involvement with it. Be prepared: As I discover to this very day, the facts taught in American classrooms don’t always jibe with Civil War reality. I can be reached at visionsofmaine@tds.net.