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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
"The Gold of the Pen and the Steel of the Sword": The Unlikely and Fleeting Celebrity of Theodore Winthrop	2
Prisoners with Undaunted Patriotism: Incarcerated Black Soldiers and Battles of Citizenship in Military Prisons during the Civil War	2
Editor’s Overview	1
Contributors	1
True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Clayton J. Butler	1
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell	0
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)	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
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)	0
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder (review)	0
“Portraits Torn to Shreds”: Iconoclasm and the Destruction of Confederate Memory	0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea	0
The Human Sacrifice: The Trial of Lucy Bagby and the Secession Crisis	0
“I Shall Forward to You My Contraband”: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive	0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)	0
Contributors	0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe	0
The Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today by Stephen Cushman	0
Contributors	0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis	0
Contributors	0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher	0
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation: Viewing Race and Freedom during the Civil War Era	0

Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest	0
Thavolia Glymph Roundtable	0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman	0
“A Dead Cock in the Pit”: Masculine Rivalry, Manhood, and Honor in the Civil War South	0
Moral Bushwhacking and Political Quantrellism: Thomas Ewing Jr. and the Clamor of Guerrilla Politics	0
William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerilla Warfare by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)	0
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair	0
The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White by Brook Thomas (review)	0
The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr (review)	0
Editor’s Overview	0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)	0
"We Can Take Care of Ourselves Now": Establishing Independent Black Labor and Industry in Postwar Yorktown, Virginia	0
Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity by Bradley R. Clampitt (review)	0
"Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel": White-on-White Sectional Violence and the "Long" Bleeding Kansas	0
The Refugee Crisis of Sherman's March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands	0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe	0
“Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image by Bruce Laurie	0
Editor's Overview	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Faye A. Yarbrough	0
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson	0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran	0
Contributors	0
The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas by Carl H. Moneyhon (review)	0
The Collective Making of Frederick Douglass' Paper	0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)	0
The Sexuality of Civil War Historiography: How Two Versions of Homosexuality Make Meaning of the War	0
Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)	0
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor	0
Conservative to the Last Degree: The Emerging Illinois Republican Party and the Election of 1856	0
A Stumping Sucker: Reception of Abraham Lincoln in Massachusetts, September 11–23, 1848	0
Fighting for State Citizenship in the US Colored Troops	0
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells	0
Contributors	0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus	0
Editor's Note	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll	0
Guest Editors' Overview	0
Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy by Michael E. Woods	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius	0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney	0
Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt	0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney (review)	0
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson	0
The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans by Allison M. Johnson (review)	0
The Right to Childhood and the Process of Emancipation in the American Civil War	0
Book Review Essay: After War and Emancipation, an Irrepressible Conflict	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
The Open-Shop Movement and the Long Shadow of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction	0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (review)	0
Editor’s Overview	0
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton (review)	0
Marketing The Dead of Antietam: Photographs of Death as a Cultural Commodity	0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)	0
The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions (1974 Reprint)	0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite	0
A Novel as Archive: A Roundtable on Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 Novel, Iola Leroy , about the Civil War and Reconstruction	0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 1856–1861 by Lauren M. Haumesser (review)	0
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder	0
Humor, Minstrelsy, and the Representation of African Americans in Macon's Georgia Telegraph and Georgia Citizen, 1855–1860	0
A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era by Robert E. Cray	0
"We Need a Press—a Press of Our Own": The Black Press beyond Abolition	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
"Does the Civil War Matter?": A Roundtable Discussion	0
Forum on Eric Foner’s “The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions”	0
Contributors	0
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard (review)	0
White Supremacy and Fraud: The "Abolitionist" Work of Henry Frisbie	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
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang (review)	0
Roundtable Discussion on Deborah Willis’s The Black Civil War Soldier: The Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship	0
“What a Piece of Work Is Man”: Human Dignity in The Killer Angels on Its Fiftieth Anniversary	0
Juno's Civil War: Black Knowledge and Racial Resolution in Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste	0
Editor’s Overview	0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui	0
Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret	0
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote	0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs	0
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Inventing White Supremacy: Race, Print Culture, and the Civil War Draft Riots	0
“We Are Now at Gettysburg”: Gender and Place in the Iowa Woman’s Relief Corps’ Monument to Jennie Wade	0
Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863–1865 by Colleen Glenney Boggs	0
Editor's Overview	0
The “First” Emancipation Proclamation: Black Rebellion, Removal, and Freedom during the Seminole Wars	0
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)	0
Guest Editor's Overview: Have Civil War Historians Lost Labor History?	0
The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama by Victoria Ott (review)	0
2022 Hubbell Prize Awarded	0
Contesting "the Insatiable Maw of Capital": Mine Workers' Struggles in the Civil War Era	0
Contributors	0
“Silent but Powerful Preachers”: Southern Religious Pamphlet Literature during the Civil War	0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)	0
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis by Brian C. Neumann (review)	0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess	0
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner	0