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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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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
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse1
A New History of the American South ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (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
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)1
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War1
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer (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
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
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward ed. by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner0
Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War by Matthew Christopher Hulbert (review)0
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union by Stephen Puleo (review)0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)0
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The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
Old Age and American Slavery by David Stefan Doddington (review)0
"Home-Builders": Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union Civil War Commemorations0
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Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration by David Nicholson (review)0
Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael J. Turner0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)0
The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (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
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
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
A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
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The Crisis of Household Government and the Rise of Democratic Conservatism before the American Civil War0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)0
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In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
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Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III (review)0
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History0
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America by Scott Gac (review)0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones0
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo (review)0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)0
Disability in the Civil War Era0
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America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll (review)0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
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
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)0
Socialism at the Edges of Civilization: Louis Pio and Colonial Visions in Scandinavia and the United States0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
Digital History and the Civil War Era0
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Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)0
The Union's Culture Industry0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
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
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
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Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
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Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)0
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A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty0
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)0
The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
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The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
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Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
The Archive / An Archive0
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later ed. by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis0
Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)0
War Objects: Material Culture and New Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era by Cecily N. Zander (review)0
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A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White (review)0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang0
Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom by Frederick C. Knight (review)0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney0
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Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois by Larry A. McClellan (review)0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty by Michael P. Zuckert (review)0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
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
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)0
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
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
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Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
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 Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (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 Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
Enlarged by Caucus and Compromise”: Freethinkers, Celebrity Preachers, and the American Anti-Slavery Society0
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Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
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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
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park (review)0
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (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
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
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Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
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Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens (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
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark (review)0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz (review)0
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 by Alan Taylor (review)0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
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"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign by Christopher Thrasher (review)0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
“We Are Cherokee”: Exhibiting Material Culture as an Act of Reconciliation, a Roundtable0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
Trunks, Legal Texts, and the Materiality of Law in the Nineteenth Century0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 by Jeff Strickland0
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
Lieber and Clausewitz: The Understanding of Modern War and the Theoretical Origins of General Orders No. 1000
Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census by Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards (review)0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (review)0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
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The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
The Constant Recurrence of Such Atrocities: Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency during the Mexican-American War0
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization by Allen Christopher York (review)0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
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Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State by Elizabeth Garner Masarik (review)0
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War by Mark A. Graber (review)0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 ed. by Roseann Bacha-Garza et al.0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)0
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (review)0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)0
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Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
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Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher0
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron0
The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895 by John R. Lundberg (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
Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin (review)0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War ed. by Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess (review)0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction ed. by Karen Cook Bell (review)0
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)0
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