OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Civil War History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contributors	3
The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr (review)	2
John Mitchel and His Critics: Transatlantic Abolition and the Irish American Response to Slavery in the 1850s	1
The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans by Allison M. Johnson (review)	1
A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era by Robert E. Cray	1
Contributors	0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)	0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess	0
“A Dead Cock in the Pit”: Masculine Rivalry, Manhood, and Honor in the Civil War South	0
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)	0
"Does the Civil War Matter?": A Roundtable Discussion	0
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)	0
The Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today by Stephen Cushman	0
“We Are Now at Gettysburg”: Gender and Place in the Iowa Woman’s Relief Corps’ Monument to Jennie Wade	0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs	0
Contesting "the Insatiable Maw of Capital": Mine Workers' Struggles in the Civil War Era	0
Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy by Michael E. Woods	0
The Human Sacrifice: The Trial of Lucy Bagby and the Secession Crisis	0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman	0
Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863–1865 by Colleen Glenney Boggs	0
Fighting for State Citizenship in the US Colored Troops	0
The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama by Victoria Ott (review)	0
The Collective Making of Frederick Douglass' Paper	0
The Right to Childhood and the Process of Emancipation in the American Civil War	0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)	0

Contributors	0
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard (review)	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret	0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis	0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 1856–1861 by Lauren M. Haumesser (review)	0
In Memoriam	0
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells	0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations by Whitney Nell Stewart (review)	0
Moral Bushwhacking and Political Quantrellism: Thomas Ewing Jr. and the Clamor of Guerrilla Politics	0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll	0
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson	0
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder (review)	0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney (review)	0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe	0
Contributors	0
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis by Brian C. Neumann (review)	0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius	0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea	0
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton (review)	0
The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher ed. by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean (review)	0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui	0
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)	0
True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Clayton J. Butler	0
Editor's Note	0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (review)	0
White Supremacy and Fraud: The "Abolitionist" Work of Henry Frisbie	0
“What a Piece of Work Is Man”: Human Dignity in The Killer Angels on Its Fiftieth Anniversary	0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher	0
Thavolia Glymph Roundtable	0
Contributors	0
The Whartons' War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton 1863–1865 ed. by William C. Davis and Sue Heth Bell (review)	0
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation: Viewing Race and Freedom during the Civil War Era	0
A Novel as Archive: A Roundtable on Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 Novel, Iola Leroy , about the Civil War and Reconstruction	0
“Portraits Torn to Shreds”: Iconoclasm and the Destruction of Confederate Memory	0
“Silent but Powerful Preachers”: Southern Religious Pamphlet Literature during the Civil War	0
"Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel": White-on-White Sectional Violence and the "Long" Bleeding Kansas	0
"The Gold of the Pen and the Steel of the Sword": The Unlikely and Fleeting Celebrity of Theodore Winthrop	0
Guest Editors' Overview	0
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein, and: Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson	0
“Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image by Bruce Laurie	0
Marketing The Dead of Antietam: Photographs of Death as a Cultural Commodity	0
The Refugee Crisis of Sherman's March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands	0
What's Love Got to Do with It?": A Roundtable on the Cultural Legacy of Eric W. Lott's Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class on Its Thirtieth Anniversary	0
Editor's Overview	0
Editor’s Overview	0
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair	0

Contributors	0
Black Geographies, White Anxieties: Maroons, Population Control, and Resource Competition in the Antebellum US South	0
Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest	0
The Open-Shop Movement and the Long Shadow of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction	0
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote	0
Contributors	0
Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity by Bradley R. Clampitt (review)	0
Guest Editor's Overview: Have Civil War Historians Lost Labor History?	0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe	0
Humor, Minstrelsy, and the Representation of African Americans in Macon's Georgia Telegraph and Georgia Citizen, 1855–1860	0
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack and a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles, and: On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed	0
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor	0
2022 Hubbell Prize Awarded	0
Contributors	0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Faye A. Yarbrough	0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang (review)	0
Contributors	0
A Stumping Sucker: Reception of Abraham Lincoln in Massachusetts, September 11–23, 1848	0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)	0
The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White by Brook Thomas (review)	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Prisoners with Undaunted Patriotism: Incarcerated Black Soldiers and Battles of Citizenship in Military Prisons during the Civil War	0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran	0
"We Can Take Care of Ourselves Now": Establishing Independent Black Labor and Industry in Postwar Yorktown, Virginia	0
Editor's Overview	0
The “First” Emancipation Proclamation: Black Rebellion, Removal, and Freedom during the Seminole Wars	0
The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas by Carl H. Moneyhon (review)	0
The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions (1974 Reprint)	0
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner	0
Forum on Eric Foner’s “The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions”	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt	0
Contributors	0
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder	0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite	0
Conservative to the Last Degree: The Emerging Illinois Republican Party and the Election of 1856	0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)	0
Editor's Overview	0
Juno's Civil War: Black Knowledge and Racial Resolution in Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste	0
Editor’s Overview	0
The Sexuality of Civil War Historiography: How Two Versions of Homosexuality Make Meaning of the War	0
Editor’s Overview	0
“I Shall Forward to You My Contraband”: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive	0
The Massacre at Marks's Mills: How Confederates Murdered "Near 30" Black Refugees and Reenslaved 150 Others	0
Book Review Essay: After War and Emancipation, an Irrepressible Conflict	0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus	0
Roundtable Discussion on Deborah Willis’s The Black Civil War Soldier: The Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship	0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)	0
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson	0
Editor’s Overview	0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)	0
"We Need a Press—a Press of Our Own": The Black Press beyond Abolition	0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)	0
Contributors	0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney	0
William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerilla Warfare by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)	0
Inventing White Supremacy: Race, Print Culture, and the Civil War Draft Riots	0
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson	0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell	0
Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)	0