Journal of the Civil War Era

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the Civil War Era 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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“They Are Truly Marvelous Cats”: The Importance of Companion Animals to US Soldiers during the Civil War2
Printed Communities: Race, Respectability, and Black Newspapers in the Civil War Era West1
Digital History and the Civil War Era1
The Cherokee and Wyandot Companies on the Overland Trails to California: Histories of Indigenous Migration and the Settler Gaze, 1849–18561
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Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
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American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era ed. by Megan L. Bever, Lesley J. Gordon and Laura Mammina0
The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North by Paul D. Escott0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
“Novices in Warfare”: Elmer E. Ellsworth and Militia Reform on the Eve of Civil War0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South by Gracjan Kraszewski0
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Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 by Benjamin T. Arrington0
Partial Portraits: African Americans in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine0
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination by Amanda Brickell Bellows0
Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women by Julia Nitz, and: Women’s Diaries from the Civil War South: A Literary-Historical Reading by Sharon Talley0
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Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher’s Climb to Freedom by Larry Eugene Rivers, and: No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner by Andre E. Johnson0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
Lieber and Clausewitz: The Understanding of Modern War and the Theoretical Origins of General Orders No. 1000
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
Treason on Trial: The United States v. Jefferson Davis by Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez0
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World ed. by Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene, and; Beacons of Liberty: International Free S0
Reconstructing the American under the Most Unimaginable Conditions: Civil War Veterans in the "Arabian Nights"0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States by Thomas Richards Jr.0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America by Felicity M. Turner (review)0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis by Brian C. Neumann, and: True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Cla0
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Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War by Mary A. DeCredico0
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Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)0
Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postempancipation Virginia by Nicole Myers Turner0
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past by Ana Lucia Araujo0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America by Robert H. Churchill0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
The Common Soldier of the Civil War: His Rise and Fall0
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Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri by Amy Laurel Fluker0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret0
A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty0
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The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr (review)0
Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy by Michael E. Woods0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney0
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A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac by Zachery A. Fry0
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War ed. by Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess (review)0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill0
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White (review)0
The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory: Reconsidering Virginia’s Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield by Adam H. Petty0
Introduction: Immigration in the Civil War Era0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)0
An Environmental History of the Civil War by Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote0
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward ed. by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner0
The Migration Business and the Shift from State to Federal Immigration Regulation0
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner0
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 ed. by Roseann Bacha-Garza et al.0
Writing the US Civil War Era into Nineteenth-Century World History0
Living by Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons by Evan A. Kutzler0
Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.0
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Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788–1865 by Billy Coleman0
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J. J. Payne (review)0
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher0
Tracing the Intimate Histories of Poor Black Women in the Late-Nineteenth-Century US South0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron0
Friendly Enemies: Soldier Fraternization throughout the American Civil War by Lauren K. Thompson0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story ed. by Beverly Greene Bond and Susan Eva O'Donovan0
Chaos and Conquest: The Civil War and Indigenous Crisis on the Upper Missouri, 1861–18650
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19–22, 1863 by Earl J. Hess, and: Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies by Earl J. Hess0
The "Bull-Dog" in Istanbul: James Longstreet's Revealing Tour as US Minister to Turkey, 1880–810
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
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Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Dale W. Tomich et al.0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
The "Colored American Asiatic Traveler": Peter K. L. Cole and American Empire in Japan0
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Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (review)0
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (review)0
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy by Ann L. Tucker0
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Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
War Waits: The Southwest Borderlands and the Civil War Era0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
Reconstructing the Immigrant: The Naturalization Act of 1870 in Global Perspective0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
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Iconoclasm and the Monumental Presence of the Civil War0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael J. Turner0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis0
Insiders, Outsiders: Toward a New History of Southern Thought ed. by Sarah E. Gardner and Steven M. Stowe0
Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement by Paul J. Polgar0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory by Robert E. May0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship by Christopher James Bonner0
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Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism by Betsy Wood0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby0
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Aston Gonzalez0
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Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America by Brian P. Luskey0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards (review)0
Studying Slavery on Campus: Research, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement0
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later ed. by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis0
Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century by Libra R. Hilde0
City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856 by Marcus P. Nevius0
When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War by LeeAnna Keith0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by P. Gabrielle Foreman et al.0
Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West by Cameron Blevins0
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Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
The Antislavery Origins of US Immigration Policy0
Possessed: Understanding the Lives of Enslaved Americans0
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Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
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The Constant Recurrence of Such Atrocities: Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency during the Mexican-American War0
"Prophecies of Loss": Debating Slave Flight during Virginia's Secession Crisis0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History0
Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher0
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus0
Editors' Note0
Between Freedom and Progress: The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics by David Prior0
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands by Bernadine Marie Hernández (review)0
William Henry Trescot, Pardon Broker0
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community by Vanessa M. Holden0
Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America by Carol Faulkner0
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Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe0
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry (review)0
Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863–1921 by Shannon Bontrager0
Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood by James M. Lundberg0
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Evan C. Rothera0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell (review)0
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I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts0
Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s ed. by Jewel L. Spangler and Frank Towers0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius (review)0
With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War by Nathan P. Kalmoe0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J. Balcerski, and: The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil0
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson0
Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War ed. by Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites0
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Opposing Lincoln: Clement L. Vallandigham, Presidential Power, and the Legal Battle over Dissent in Wartime by Thomas C. Mackey0
“Ex Parte Milligan” Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror ed. by Stewart L. Winger and Jonathan W. White0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America by Mary P. Ryan0
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson0
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana by Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross0
Guerilla Women And Men In Silk Dresses: Diplomacy and Orientalism during the 1860 Japanese Mission0
A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865–1920 by Dennis Patrick Halpin0
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III0
Proving Disloyalty: Enslaved People and Resistance in Missouri’s Guerrilla Households0
Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North by Sarah Handley-Cousins0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
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All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 by Jeff Strickland0
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley0
North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr0
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor0
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
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