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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse2
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (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
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
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)1
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney1
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (review)1
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois by Larry A. McClellan (review)0
"Home-Builders": Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union Civil War Commemorations0
Enlarged by Caucus and Compromise”: Freethinkers, Celebrity Preachers, and the American Anti-Slavery Society0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
Mobilization, Merit, and the Struggle for Rights in the Pardo Regiment of Rio de Janeiro (1798–1831)0
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Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront by Rachel Williams (review)0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
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
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
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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
War Objects: Material Culture and New Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
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A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
The Colfax County War: Violence and Corruption in Territorial New Mexico by Corey Recko (review)0
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)0
The Archive / An Archive0
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin0
"Soldiers Were Apt to Get Drunk Whenever They Got a Chance": The Control of Alcohol in Wartime Washington, DC, 1861–18650
Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by James M. Bradley (review)0
Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)0
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart (review)0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
Habits of Mind: How History Teaches Humility0
Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance by Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown (review)0
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade by Jonathan W. White (review)0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (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
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
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“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
Reconstruction and the Regulation of Sexuality0
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A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines M. Foster (review)0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)0
Empathy, Humility, and Good Faith: Studying History in Times of Crisis0
The Civil War's Unfinished Business0
Exceptional Times0
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)0
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
Parodic Exaggeration, Transparent Lying, and Conspiracy Thinking in US History0
Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)0
Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon C. Eaves (review)0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
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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
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 ed. by Hilary N. Green and Andrew L. Slap (review)0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South by F. Evan Nooe (review)0
America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll (review)0
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Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
The Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation by Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor (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
The Specter of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Today0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
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The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (review)0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking by Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli (review)0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
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Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War by Mark A. Graber (review)0
Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J. J. Payne (review)0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era0
Old Age and American Slavery by David Stefan Doddington (review)0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)0
The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895 by John R. Lundberg (review)0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
The State, Unfreedom, and Emancipation in the Western Borderlands, a Roundtable0
The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State by Elizabeth Garner Masarik (review)0
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865 by Ian Delahanty (review)0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
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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
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
Racist Slurs and Precarious Freedoms: Seeking Legal Redress in Brazil’s Coffee Belt0
Storytelling, Digital Archives, and Black Women's Reproductive History in Real Time0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
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Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico: Livestock, Land, and Dollars by Jon M. Wallace (review)0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark (review)0
Survival with Sanity: Sarah Cook, Black Optimistic Realist0
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
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
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty by Michael P. Zuckert (review)0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (review)0
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1–17, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design ed. by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (review)0
Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
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Lessons From My Grandfather's FBI File0
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
The Union's Culture Industry0
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)0
Beyond Freedom: Stolen Back Wages and Radical Popular Abolitionism in Brazil0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
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Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)0
Trunks, Legal Texts, and the Materiality of Law in the Nineteenth Century0
Chaos and Conquest: The Civil War and Indigenous Crisis on the Upper Missouri, 1861–18650
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
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American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin (review)0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
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Disability in the Civil War Era0
The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era by Cecily N. Zander (review)0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park (review)0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
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Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye (review)0
A-Mouldering in Our Graves?0
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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
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 by Alan Taylor (review)0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)0
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The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz (review)0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)0
Higher Laws, Racial (In)Equality, and Democratic Violence: Theodore Parker's Abolitionist Theology0
Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry (review)0
The Current Situation of 2025: Thoughts on Media, the Public Sphere, and Education0
In 2025, an Echo of the 1800s: The Fight for Black Citizenship in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations0
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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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Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire by Raymond Jonas (review)0
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (review)0
The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census by Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards (review)0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III (review)0
After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia ed. by Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglas (review)0
Confederate Privateer: The Life of John Yates Beall . by William C. Harris (review)0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)0
Trauma, Trauma Everywhere: Race, Violence, and Pathology in the Study of American Slavery0
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South by Maria Angela Diaz (review)0
Fighting Against Land Dispossession: Indigenous Power, Legal Activism, and Race in Brazil (Maranhão, c. 1750–1830)0
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A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
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Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (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 Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III0
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