History Book Club selects America’s Longest Siege
So pleased that the History Book Club has selected Joseph Kelly’s America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery and the Slow March Toward Civil War for their Winter Catalog. Civil War buffs shouldn’t miss this fascinating book. The Library Journal said, “Kelly brings a literary sensibility to this vivid and engrossing study of slavery in and around […]
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Joseph Kelly, Ph.D. Whether he’s writing about John Smith or John C. Calhoun, about the Union’s siege of Charleston in the Civil War or the shipwrecked birth of America, Joseph Kelly looks for the human story, fully painting the figures who make history happen. Always he aims to write about complex ideas and history in lively, readable prose. […]