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
A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era by Robert E. Cray	1
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
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
The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas by Carl H. Moneyhon (review)	0
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder	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
Book Review Essay: After War and Emancipation, an Irrepressible Conflict	0
Editor's Overview	0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus	0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite	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
Editor’s Overview	0
Juno's Civil War: Black Knowledge and Racial Resolution in Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste	0
"We Need a Press—a Press of Our Own": The Black Press beyond Abolition	0
Roundtable Discussion on Deborah Willis’s The Black Civil War Soldier: The Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship	0
Contributors	0

The Massacre at Marks's Mills: How Confederates Murdered "Near 30" Black Refugees and Reenslaved 150 Others	0
William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerilla Warfare by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)	0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)	0
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson	0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)	0
Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)	0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney	0
Contributors	0
Inventing White Supremacy: Race, Print Culture, and the Civil War Draft Riots	0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess	0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell	0
“A Dead Cock in the Pit”: Masculine Rivalry, Manhood, and Honor in the Civil War South	0
"Does the Civil War Matter?": A Roundtable Discussion	0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)	0
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)	0
“We Are Now at Gettysburg”: Gender and Place in the Iowa Woman’s Relief Corps’ Monument to Jennie Wade	0
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)	0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs	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 Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today by Stephen Cushman	0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman	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
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)	0
Contributors	0
Contesting "the Insatiable Maw of Capital": Mine Workers' Struggles in the Civil War Era	0
The Collective Making of Frederick Douglass' Paper	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
Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863–1865 by Colleen Glenney Boggs	0
In Memoriam	0
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells	0
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard (review)	0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations by Whitney Nell Stewart (review)	0
The Right to Childhood and the Process of Emancipation in the American Civil War	0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll	0
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder (review)	0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 1856–1861 by Lauren M. Haumesser (review)	0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney (review)	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Contributors	0
Moral Bushwhacking and Political Quantrellism: Thomas Ewing Jr. and the Clamor of Guerrilla Politics	0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)	0
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson	0
Contributors	0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe	0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea	0
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis by Brian C. Neumann (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

Contributors	0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui	0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius	0
True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Clayton J. Butler	0
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton (review)	0
Editor's Note	0
White Supremacy and Fraud: The "Abolitionist" Work of Henry Frisbie	0
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)	0
“What a Piece of Work Is Man”: Human Dignity in The Killer Angels on Its Fiftieth Anniversary	0
Thavolia Glymph Roundtable	0
Contributors	0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (review)	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
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
"The Gold of the Pen and the Steel of the Sword": The Unlikely and Fleeting Celebrity of Theodore Winthrop	0
Guest Editors' Overview	0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher	0
“Silent but Powerful Preachers”: Southern Religious Pamphlet Literature during the Civil War	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
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation: Viewing Race and Freedom during the Civil War Era	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
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair	0
"Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel": White-on-White Sectional Violence and the "Long" Bleeding Kansas	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 Refugee Crisis of Sherman's March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands	0
The Open-Shop Movement and the Long Shadow of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction	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
Contributors	0
Guest Editor's Overview: Have Civil War Historians Lost Labor History?	0
Contributors	0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe	0
Editor's Overview	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
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote	0
2022 Hubbell Prize Awarded	0
Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity by Bradley R. Clampitt (review)	0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Faye A. Yarbrough	0
Humor, Minstrelsy, and the Representation of African Americans in Macon's Georgia Telegraph and Georgia Citizen, 1855–1860	0
Contributors	0
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor	0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)	0
Contributors	0
The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White by Brook Thomas (review)	0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang (review)	0
Prisoners with Undaunted Patriotism: Incarcerated Black Soldiers and Battles of Citizenship in Military Prisons during the Civil War	0
A Stumping Sucker: Reception of Abraham Lincoln in Massachusetts, September 11–23, 1848	0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran	0
Editor's Overview	0
Editor’s Overview	0
The “First” Emancipation Proclamation: Black Rebellion, Removal, and Freedom during the Seminole Wars	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
"We Can Take Care of Ourselves Now": Establishing Independent Black Labor and Industry in Postwar Yorktown, Virginia	0
Forum on Eric Foner’s “The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions”	0
Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt	0
Contributors	0