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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Editors' Note4
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse4
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 S2
A New History of the American South ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (review)1
Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin (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
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (review)1
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (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
Socialism at the Edges of Civilization: Louis Pio and Colonial Visions in Scandinavia and the United States1
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War by Mark A. Graber (review)0
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A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (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
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart (review)0
Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South by F. Evan Nooe (review)0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
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 End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin (review)0
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens (review)0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
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Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking by Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli (review)0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
The Archive / An Archive0
The Colfax County War: Violence and Corruption in Territorial New Mexico by Corey Recko (review)0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union by Stephen Puleo (review)0
Reconstruction and the Regulation of Sexuality0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (review)0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
Exceptional Times0
Parodic Exaggeration, Transparent Lying, and Conspiracy Thinking in US History0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
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Habits of Mind: How History Teaches Humility0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)0
Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census by Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards (review)0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)0
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War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (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
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)0
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Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade by Jonathan W. White (review)0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
Mobilization, Merit, and the Struggle for Rights in the Pardo Regiment of Rio de Janeiro (1798–1831)0
The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr (review)0
Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson (review)0
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park (review)0
Lessons From My Grandfather's FBI File0
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Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
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Trauma, Trauma Everywhere: Race, Violence, and Pathology in the Study of American Slavery0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
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After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia ed. by Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglas (review)0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
The Specter of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Today0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (review)0
The State, Unfreedom, and Emancipation in the Western Borderlands, a Roundtable0
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Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (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
The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895 by John R. Lundberg (review)0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era by Cecily N. Zander (review)0
"Home-Builders": Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union Civil War Commemorations0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865 by Ian Delahanty (review)0
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines M. Foster (review)0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (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
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)0
Old Age and American Slavery by David Stefan Doddington (review)0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
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Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell (review)0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
The Current Situation of 2025: Thoughts on Media, the Public Sphere, and Education0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)0
Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by James M. Bradley (review)0
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III (review)0
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
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
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle by R. J. M. Blackett (review)0
Empathy, Humility, and Good Faith: Studying History in Times of Crisis0
War Objects: Material Culture and New Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America0
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The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)0
The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 ed. by Hilary N. Green and Andrew L. Slap (review)0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
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Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
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I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig (review)0
“We Are Cherokee”: Exhibiting Material Culture as an Act of Reconciliation, a Roundtable0
Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois by Larry A. McClellan (review)0
"Soldiers Were Apt to Get Drunk Whenever They Got a Chance": The Control of Alcohol in Wartime Washington, DC, 1861–18650
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye (review)0
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The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1–17, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)0
The Union's Culture Industry0
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History0
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Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark (review)0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon C. Eaves (review)0
Trunks, Legal Texts, and the Materiality of Law in the Nineteenth Century0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
The Civil War's Unfinished Business0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)0
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design ed. by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (review)0
In 2025, an Echo of the 1800s: The Fight for Black Citizenship in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (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
The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (review)0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State by Elizabeth Garner Masarik (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
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
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The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Disability in the Civil War Era0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
A-Mouldering in Our Graves?0
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 by Alan Taylor (review)0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire by Raymond Jonas (review)0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
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The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
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Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (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 Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty by Michael P. Zuckert (review)0
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We the People State of Mississippi": Letter Writing, Archiving, and Democracy from Reconstruction to Today0
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
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The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
Beyond Freedom: Stolen Back Wages and Radical Popular Abolitionism in Brazil0
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)0
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)0
Confederate Privateer: The Life of John Yates Beall . by William C. Harris (review)0
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One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)0
Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign by Christopher Thrasher (review)0
Storytelling, Digital Archives, and Black Women's Reproductive History in Real Time0
Racist Slurs and Precarious Freedoms: Seeking Legal Redress in Brazil’s Coffee Belt0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South by Maria Angela Diaz (review)0
Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
Higher Laws, Racial (In)Equality, and Democratic Violence: Theodore Parker's Abolitionist Theology0
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (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
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J. J. Payne (review)0
Survival with Sanity: Sarah Cook, Black Optimistic Realist0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)0
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
Enlarged by Caucus and Compromise”: Freethinkers, Celebrity Preachers, and the American Anti-Slavery Society0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico: Livestock, Land, and Dollars by Jon M. Wallace (review)0
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)0
Fighting Against Land Dispossession: Indigenous Power, Legal Activism, and Race in Brazil (Maranhão, c. 1750–1830)0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
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