American Nineteenth Century History

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“Poor, deluded, ignorant masses”: revisiting the poor non-slaveholding whites of the antebellum south	1
We have fed you all 1000 years: nineteenth-century radical song and the rise of North American labor	1
Feeling right about the Civil War: the Union’s battle for emotional health	0
Toward a new future in Civil War memory studies	0
Of counterhistories and black collective memory: enslaved people and the University of Georgia	0
Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity by Bradley R. Clamp	0
Lincecum’s law: white supremacy, castration, and Gideon Lincecum’s crusade in Texas during the long civil war era	0
From obscurity to national icon: memorializing Stephen C. Foster in the 1890s	0
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World	0
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World	0
Letter from the editors	0
Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers	0
Letter from the editors	0
The Merry affair: etiquette, politics, and diplomacy in the early republic	0
The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen PrinceThe Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen Prince by K. Stephen	0
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Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico & Argentina 1860–1880 Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico & Argen	0
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South	0
Letter from the editors	0
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by James	0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North	0
“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861	0
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early U.S. Republic	0
Challenging the overseer: enslaved women’s violent resistance in the US antebellum South	0

Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird	0
Correction	0
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction	0
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Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough	0
Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race	0
Between Extremes: Seeking the Political Center in the Civil War North	0
The Mambi-Land or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba: A Critical Edition	0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era	0
Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition	0
Singers and managers: women and the operatic stage in late nineteenth-century America	0
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Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870	0
Correction	0
Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York	0
The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom	0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction , by Gordon C.	0
Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–1935	0
The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860	0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation , by Roberto Saba, Prin	0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition , by Kathleen M. Brown, Philadelphia:	0
Afterword	0
Slavery, Capitalism, and Women's Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852–1869	0
The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States ,	0
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told , by Charles Warren S	0
Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World	0
The Transcendentalists and Their World The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross, New York: Picador, 2022, Pp. 880, $40.00 (hbk), $25.00 (pbk), $12.99 (e	0
Commemorating the old battleground: the celebrations of the Battle of Tippecanoe and 1850s politics	0
“Anti-Slavery success to the Juniors!”: organizing juvenile abolitionists	0
“They are not surpassed … by an equal number of citizens of any equal country in the world”: squatter society in the American West	0
This is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations	0
Agents of Empire: The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest during the Civil War Agents of Empire: The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Inter	0
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture	0
“Reconstruction: Democracy for All”	0
To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner , by Carole Emberton, New York: W	0
From Brazil to Brattle street: the transnational history of emperor Dom Pedro II’s dinner with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	0
American Empire in Global History	0
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House	0
Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom	0
“The Great Demoralization”: race, intimacy, and empire in the American West’s anti-Chinese movement, c. 1848–1892	0
Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America	0
The Beechers: America's Most Influential Family	0
Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021	0
Letter from the editors	0
Civilized into sleeplessness: a transatlantic study of insomnia at the fin de siècle	0
Letter from the editors	0
The sense of the margin	0
Sovereign of a Free People: Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery; A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty	0
“The fires of liberty”: American abolitionist perspectives on the Haitian revolution, 1791–1806	0
Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age	0

The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory	0
The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms	0
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America	0
“ … If we except the colored criminals of the south”: distorted discourse and American convict leasing on the international stage, 1870–1895	0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America , by Leslie A. SchwalmChapel Hill, NC: The University of	0
Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War	0
Gettysburg and American history: the Peter J. Parish memorial lecture 2023	0
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Fugitive Movements: Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World	0
Black women and the cultural performance of music in mid-nineteenth century Natchez	0
A memorial methodology from “another field”: a liberatory praxis	0
Le Judas Confedéré: James Longstreet’s surprising alliance with Black politicians in New Orleans	0
Warfare and Logistics along the US-Canadian Border during the War of 1812	0
America’s black temperance movement, 1827–1894: charting a forgotten history	0
Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War	0
“If you kill him, you have got to kill me first”: examining individual and collective loyalties during the Memphis Massacre (1866)	0
From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: rediscovering the namesake of Virginia’s largest university in the “plantation” suburbs of Washington, D.C.	0
The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective	0
Introduction: the “palpability” of another legacy	0
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South	0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen’s Bureau Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen’s Bureau by Dale Kretz,	0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the R	0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America , edited by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney, Athe	0
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity	0
The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle	0
Letter from the editors	0
Teaching nineteenth-century American history with music: leveraging the possibilities through technology and Universal Design for Learning	0
“To keep me steady”: Northern culture, temptation, and the talismanic home in the Civil War Age	0
Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War	0
Nineteenth-century feminist historiography: continuities, intersections, and breakthroughs	0
The butterfly effect in action; or the tale of the volcano and the mosquito. The Peter J. Parish Memorial Lecture 2025	0
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World	0
Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement	0
Letter from the editors	0
Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign	0
Cyrena Stone’s Civil War: the “Miss Abby” diary and the Confederate home front	0
Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools	0
Episcopalians in Civil War Washington: loyalty, prayer, and the struggle over religious authority within the Diocese of Maryland	0
Fellow time travelers: creating queer heritage in the detritus of untold genealogies	0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era	0
Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?	0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in	0
The Spartan mother in America: 1865–1900	0
Books Reviewed	0
Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade	0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris, Chapel Hill: Un	0
From Mississippi and Memphis to Mozambique: American emancipation and the evangelical struggles of Benjamin and Henrietta Ousley and Nancy Jones, “ex-slave” missionaries in “Zulu East Africa,” 1850s–1	0
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida in Indian Country	0
Hard Times at an American Workhouse: 1853-1920	0
Lynching in Virginia: Racial Terror and Its Legacy	0
The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City	0
Old Age and American Slavery	0
Beyondantislaveryandproslavery: a new term,eventualism, and a refined interpretive approach	0
“Has He Madeira of Fifty Years Standing?”: Gentility, medievalism, masculinity, and the allure of the Virginia Springs in the late antebellum South	0
Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point	0
Counselor not savior: Hamilton Fish and foreign policy decision-making during the Grant administration	0
Demographic theory and the movement to reopen the African slave trade	0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal	0
Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery	0
A thoroughly adaptive and amoral public figure: Thomas Jefferson and 2026	0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War	0
The Papers of the Revolutionary era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition and the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriot Pinckney Horry Digital Edition The Papers of the Revolutionary	0
The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War , by Michael	0
Of soldiers and surgeons: how the struggle for autonomy shaped patient–physician relationships during the Civil War	0
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction	0
Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile	0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll,Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univers	0
President James K. Polk’s deathbed conversion: the contest of ideas and market within the mid-nineteenth-century southern evangelical press	0
Gender, sex, and the civil war: battling for inclusion	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteen	0
Books Reviewed	0
The Confederate Resurgence of 1864	0
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding	0
Music in American nineteenth-century history	0
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment	0
Justin S. Morrill and the meaning of protection	0
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South	0
My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss	0
“The Terrible Turk” in industrial America: a case of orientalism in late nineteenth-century American newspapers	0

“John Brown is immortal”: Charles Spurgeon, the American press, and the ordeal of slavery	0
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss	0