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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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A New History of the American South ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (review)1
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (review)1
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)1
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)1
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones0
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past by Ana Lucia Araujo0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
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Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community by Vanessa M. Holden0
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
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Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
The "Colored American Asiatic Traveler": Peter K. L. Cole and American Empire in Japan0
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
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Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur0
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens (review)0
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The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 ed. by Roseann Bacha-Garza et al.0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Kent Masterson Brown0
The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (review)0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign by Christopher Thrasher (review)0
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
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull (review)0
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 by Jeff Strickland0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
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Tracing the Intimate Histories of Poor Black Women in the Late-Nineteenth-Century US South0
Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
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A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
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A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)0
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At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
Possessed: Understanding the Lives of Enslaved Americans0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)0
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization by Allen Christopher York (review)0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State by Brian McGinty (review)0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
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The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (review)0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)0
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin (review)0
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)0
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney0
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
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Partial Portraits: African Americans in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine0
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (review)0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. Mendelsohn (review)0
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Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill0
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig (review)0
Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
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
Disability in the Civil War Era0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
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
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea0
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Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union by Stephen Puleo (review)0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
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The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward ed. by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner0
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A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson (review)0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
Happy Dreams of Liberty0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael J. Turner0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History0
Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
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Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright0
The Union's Culture Industry0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
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Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
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Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History0
African American State Volunteers in the New South: Race, Masculinity, and the Militia in Georgia, Texas, and Virginia, 1871–1906 by John Patrick Blair (review)0
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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
The International Dimension of Freedom: Revisiting Black Grassroots Activism during US Reconstruction0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
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Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer (review)0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands by Bernadine Marie Hernández (review)0
Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (review)0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (review)0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner0
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
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)0
New Perspectives on Civil War–Era Kentucky ed. by John David Smith (review)0
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
Digital History and the Civil War Era0
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
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America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll (review)0
Guerilla Women And Men In Silk Dresses: Diplomacy and Orientalism during the 1860 Japanese Mission0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
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War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)0
Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Reconstruction0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
Scouting for the Bluecoats: Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911 by Robert S. McPherson (review)0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later ed. by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis0
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Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster0
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 Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920 by Manisha Sinha (review)0
The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White (review)0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)0
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
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
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
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Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz (review)0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
Lieber and Clausewitz: The Understanding of Modern War and the Theoretical Origins of General Orders No. 1000
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus0
Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)0
Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War by Matthew Christopher Hulbert (review)0
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin0
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War ed. by Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess (review)0
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America by Scott Gac (review)0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (review)0
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
Socialism at the Edges of Civilization: Louis Pio and Colonial Visions in Scandinavia and the United States0
Chaos and Conquest: The Civil War and Indigenous Crisis on the Upper Missouri, 1861–18650
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
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The Constant Recurrence of Such Atrocities: Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency during the Mexican-American War0
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius (review)0
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