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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse2
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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 S1
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
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney1
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)1
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War1
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)1
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The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty0
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park (review)0
The State, Unfreedom, and Emancipation in the Western Borderlands, a Roundtable0
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 by Alan Taylor (review)0
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)0
Editors Note0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (review)0
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization by Allen Christopher York (review)0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)0
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The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 ed. by Roseann Bacha-Garza et al.0
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin0
A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
Enlarged by Caucus and Compromise”: Freethinkers, Celebrity Preachers, and the American Anti-Slavery Society0
Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael J. Turner0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill0
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo (review)0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
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Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
Reconstruction and the Regulation of Sexuality0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher0
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Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico: Livestock, Land, and Dollars by Jon M. Wallace (review)0
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson (review)0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895 by John R. Lundberg (review)0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
Disability in the Civil War Era0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
Socialism at the Edges of Civilization: Louis Pio and Colonial Visions in Scandinavia and the United States0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
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
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
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Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens (review)0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)0
The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State by Elizabeth Garner Masarik (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
Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)0
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
The Archive / An Archive0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
The Constant Recurrence of Such Atrocities: Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency during the Mexican-American War0
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A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)0
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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)0
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Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
Digital History and the Civil War Era0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
The Union's Culture Industry0
America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll (review)0
War Objects: Material Culture and New Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America0
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones0
Higher Laws, Racial (In)Equality, and Democratic Violence: Theodore Parker's Abolitionist Theology0
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 ed. by Hilary N. Green and Andrew L. Slap (review)0
"Soldiers Were Apt to Get Drunk Whenever They Got a Chance": The Control of Alcohol in Wartime Washington, DC, 1861–18650
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War by Mark A. Graber (review)0
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin (review)0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon C. Eaves (review)0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
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Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America by Scott Gac (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom by Frederick C. Knight (review)0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
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The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward ed. by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner0
Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III (review)0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
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Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark (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
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
Old Age and American Slavery by David Stefan Doddington (review)0
Scouting for the Bluecoats: Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911 by Robert S. McPherson (review)0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz (review)0
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (review)0
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)0
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Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois by Larry A. McClellan (review)0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
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Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty by Michael P. Zuckert (review)0
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (review)0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
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Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (review)0
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Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Editors' Note0
North Carolina Troops, 1861–1865: A Roster. Vol. 22, Confederate States Navy, Confederate States Marine Corps, and Charlotte Naval Yard ed. by Katelynn A. Hatton and Alex Christopher Meekins (review)0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
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Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign by Christopher Thrasher (review)0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
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Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)0
Editors Note0
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J. J. Payne (review)0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis0
The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era by Cecily N. Zander (review)0
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig (review)0
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
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
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
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
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
Trunks, Legal Texts, and the Materiality of Law in the Nineteenth Century0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe0
Editors' Note0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (review)0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
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
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire by Raymond Jonas (review)0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction ed. by Karen Cook Bell (review)0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
Books Received0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
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Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
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The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (review)0
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (review)0
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)0
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin (review)0
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Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War ed. by Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess (review)0
Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines M. Foster (review)0
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Lieber and Clausewitz: The Understanding of Modern War and the Theoretical Origins of General Orders No. 1000
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)0
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer (review)0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
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A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster0
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union by Stephen Puleo (review)0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War by J. Matthew Ward (review)0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census by Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards (review)0
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