Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Campbell, Jacqueline G., “There Is No Difference between a He and a She Adder in Their Venom: Benjamin F. Butler, William T. Sherman, and Confederate Women,” Louisiana History, 50 (Winter 2009), 5–24.
David, William C., “Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 19–23.
DeGruccio, Michael, “Manhood, Race, Failure, and Reconciliation: Charles Francis Adams Jr. and the American Civil War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 636–75.
Diemer, Andrew, “Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and Politics in the Post–Civil War North,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Jan. 2009), 29–58.
English, Bertis, “A Black Belt Anomaly: Biracial Cooperation in Reconstruction-Era Perry County, 1865–1874,” Alabama Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 3–36.
Geiger, Mark W., “Indebtedness and the Origins of Guerrilla Violence in Civil War Missouri,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 49–82.
Le Beau, Bryan F., “The Mind of the North in Pictures: Currier and Ives’s Civil War,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Lundberg, John R., “Wheat Farmers in the Secession Crisis: The Imprint of the Upper South on Northeast Texas Politics,” East Texas Historical Journal, 47 (no. 1, 2009), 29–43.
Naumec, David J., “From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut’s Volunteer Regiments and the Union Navy,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 596–635.
Noe, Kenneth W., “‘Damned North Carolinians’ and ‘Brave Virginians’: The Lane-Mahone Controversy, Honor, and Civil War Memory,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Oct. 2008), 1089–1116.
Shields, Johanna Nicol, “The Dynamics of Southern Friendship in the Civil War Novels of Augusta Evans and Jeremiah Clemens,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 305–33.
Sim, David, “The Peace Policy of Ulysses S. Grant,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 241–68.
Stith, Matthew M., “At the Heart of Total War: Guerrillas, Civilians, and the Union Response in Jasper County, Missouri, 1861–1865,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 1–27.
Walker, Katherine D., “United, Regardless, and a Bit Regretful: Confederate History Month, the Slavery Apology, and the Failure of Commemoration,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 315–38.
Wolters, Timothy S., “Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 755–83.
Cohen, Michael David, “Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312323.
Finck, James W., “Cling to the Olive Branch while Holding to the Sword: Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality, 1860–1861” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317812.
Karppi, Daniel G., “Render unto Caeser, Render unto God: Texas Denominational Colleges and Universities and the Politics of the Civil War Era” (Baylor University, 2008). Order No. DA3310773.
Kato, Junko Isono, “From Slavery to Freedom in Tennessee, 1860–1870” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305237.
White, Jonathan W., “‘To Aid Their Rebel Friends’: Politics and Treason in the Civil War North” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307818.
Allardice, Bruce S., and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. viii, 336 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2475-9.)
Bobrick, Benson, Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 416 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9025-8.)
Coddington, Ronald S., Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxiv, 288 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9019-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Davis, William C., and James I. Robertson Jr., eds., Virginia at War, 1863. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xiv, 218 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2510-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Durham, Walter T., Nashville: The Occupied City, 1862–1863. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 307 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-633-9.)
Durham, Walter T., Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union, 1863–1865. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxvi, 327 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-634-6.)
Grear, Charles D., ed., The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xxii, 272 pp. $37.50, isbn 978-1-55728-883-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Jermann, Donald R., Fitz-John Porter, Scapegoat of Second Manassas: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the General Accused of Disobedience. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 287 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3930-0.)
McKenney, Tom C., Jack Hinson’s One-Man War. (Gretna: Pelican, 2009. 400 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-58980-640-5.)
Phillips, Christopher, The Making of a Southerner: William Barclay Napton’s Private Civil War. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 162 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1825-4.)
Pierson, Michael D., Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 250 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3228-8.)
Rafuse, Ethan S., Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 263 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-3970-8.)
Ross, D. Reid, Lincoln’s Veteran Volunteers Win the War: The Hudson Valley’s Ross Brothers and the Union’s Fight for Emancipation. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xx, 450 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7641-3.)
Sachsman, David B., S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr., eds., Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism. (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008. xiv, 412 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55753-490-3.)
Crist, Lynda Lasswell, ed., The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 12: June 1865–December 1870. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. lii, 624 pp. $105.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3341-5.)
Figg, Royall W., Where Men Only Dare to Go, Or the Story of a Boy Company, C.S.A. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xxiv, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3378-1.) Originally published in 1885.
Wright, Catherine M., ed., Lee’s Last Casualty: The Life and Letters of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxx, 231 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57233-630-8.)
Zon, Calvin Goddard, ed., The Good Fight That Didn’t End: Henry P. Goddard’s Accounts of Civil War and Peace. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 359 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-1-57003-772-6.)
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