Herman Hattaway
Biographic Data
| ID | 1234208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herman Hattaway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herman |
| FAMILY NAME | Hattaway |
| SIGNATURE | HATTAWAY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reflections of a Civil War Historian
Born in New Orleans, Herman Hattaway grew up in the Deep South. While it might not seem such a stretch for him to have become one of the foremost authorities on the Civil War and Southern history, Hattaway was actually at a loss for a career choice when he stumbled into the class of Professor T. Harry Williams at Louisiana State University. Williams's lectures and writings were so inspiring to Hattaway that he became a regular in his classes, rec…
The Ongoing Civil War
Introduction by Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse The Professional Historian and Popular by Mark Grimsley Old Brains Was Brainy After All by Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones McLellan, von Clausewitz, and the Politics of War by Ethan S. Rafuse Franklin Pierce and the Civil War by Michael J. C. Taylor Union Lifeline by Mark A. Snell Before the Wilderness: What Lee Knew by William A. Tidwell in Hindsight: by Albert Castel Philatelic Pugilists by J…
Vicksburg Is the Key
Jefferson Davis, Confederate President
Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xix, 542. $39.95.) Recently, journalist Bob Woodward published Bush at War (2002), a fascinating look at the wartime presidency-in-progress of George W. Bush. Likewise, the new by historians Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer, Jefferson Davis, Confederate President, could well be titled Davis at War. Whatever t…
The Art of Command in the Civil War
Shades of Blue and Gray
An introductory military history of the American Civil War, Shades of Blue and Gray places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, Hattaway includes valuable material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades, automatic weapons, the Confederate submarine, and balloons. The evolution of professionalism in the American military serves as an important connective…
On Many a Bloody Field
Shades of Blue and Gray
North with Lee and Jackson
The Armies of U. S. Grant
Battle Tactics of the Civil War
Letters from Forest Place
Why the Cause Lost
Over the last decade Civil War history has enjoyed a surprising and robust revival. Volumes on the war crowd bookstore shelves; Ken Burns and his coterie of scholars have offered a compelling if controversial interpretation of the war on PBS; James M. McPherson comes into our living rooms over television to promote American Heritage. Aside from some recent unseemly squabbling over the merits and motivation of the new western history, the most col…
Return to Bull Run
Journal Article Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. By John J. Hennessy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. xvi, 607 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-671-79368-3.) Get access Herman M. Hattaway Herman M. Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 711–712, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
A Battle from the Start
Jefferson Davis
Journal Article Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour. By William C. Davis. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991. xvi + 784 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-06-016706-8.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1178–1179, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080868 Published: 01 December 1992
Forged in Battle
Journal Article Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. (New York: Free Press, 1990. xiv + 370 pp. $24.95.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway United States Military Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1035, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079066 Published: 01 December 19…
The Generals
Journal Article The Generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. By Nancy Scott Anderson and Dwight Anderson. (New York: Knopf, 1988. x + 523 pp. $24.95.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 956, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901632 Published: 01 December 1988
Lee's Tigers
Journal Article Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. By Terry L. Jones. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xvii + 274 pp. $22.50.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889730 Publish…
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Journal Article Why the South Lost the Civil War. By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still, Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. xi + 582 pp. $29.95.) Get access Robert K. Krick Robert K. Krick Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania, National Military Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 523–524, h…
How the North Won
How the North Won
Journal Article How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. By Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. xv + 762 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography of works cited, and index. $24.95.) Get access William C. Davis William C. Davis Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, …
Attack and Die
Journal Article Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage. By Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. xvii + 209 p. Maps, tables, notes, essay on selected sources, and index. $17.95.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, I…
Attack and Die
Journal Article Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage. By Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. xvii + 209 p. Maps, tables, notes, essay on selected sources, and index. $17.95.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, I…
Seacoast Fortifications of the United States
The only work available on the history of U.S. coastal defenses, including their armament and architecture. It will appeal to fort visitors and naval history buffs as well as to those interested in artillery and military architecture
The English Occupation of Tournai, 1513-1519 . C. G. Cruickshank
John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama
Symbol, Sword, and Shield
General Stephen D. Lee
General Stephen D. Lee
General Stephen D. Lee. By Herman Hattaway. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. xi + 283 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Get access Ludwell H. Johnson, III Ludwell H. Johnson, III College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 161–162, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888327 Published: 01 J…
Yankee Blitzkrieg
Journal Article Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia. By James Pickett Jones. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1976. xiv + 256 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, critical essay on sources, bibliography, and index. $12.00.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, …
How the North Won
How the North Won
Journal Article How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. By Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. xv + 762 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography of works cited, and index. $24.95.) Get access William C. Davis William C. Davis Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, …
Attack and Die
Journal Article Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage. By Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. xvii + 209 p. Maps, tables, notes, essay on selected sources, and index. $17.95.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, I…
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Journal Article Why the South Lost the Civil War. By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still, Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. xi + 582 pp. $29.95.) Get access Robert K. Krick Robert K. Krick Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania, National Military Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 523–524, h…
The Generals
Journal Article The Generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. By Nancy Scott Anderson and Dwight Anderson. (New York: Knopf, 1988. x + 523 pp. $24.95.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 956, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901632 Published: 01 December 1988
Lee's Tigers
Journal Article Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. By Terry L. Jones. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xvii + 274 pp. $22.50.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889730 Publish…
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Forged in Battle
Journal Article Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. (New York: Free Press, 1990. xiv + 370 pp. $24.95.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway United States Military Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1035, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079066 Published: 01 December 19…
Jefferson Davis
Journal Article Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour. By William C. Davis. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991. xvi + 784 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-06-016706-8.) Get access Herman Hattaway Herman Hattaway University of Missouri Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1178–1179, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080868 Published: 01 December 1992
A Battle from the Start
Why the Cause Lost
Over the last decade Civil War history has enjoyed a surprising and robust revival. Volumes on the war crowd bookstore shelves; Ken Burns and his coterie of scholars have offered a compelling if controversial interpretation of the war on PBS; James M. McPherson comes into our living rooms over television to promote American Heritage. Aside from some recent unseemly squabbling over the merits and motivation of the new western history, the most col…
Return to Bull Run
Journal Article Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. By John J. Hennessy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. xvi, 607 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-671-79368-3.) Get access Herman M. Hattaway Herman M. Hattaway University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 711–712, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Battle Tactics of the Civil War
Letters from Forest Place
The Armies of U. S. Grant
North with Lee and Jackson
Shades of Blue and Gray
An introductory military history of the American Civil War, Shades of Blue and Gray places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, Hattaway includes valuable material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades, automatic weapons, the Confederate submarine, and balloons. The evolution of professionalism in the American military serves as an important connective…
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