Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Alentieva, T. V., “Linkol’n kak voennyi prezident” (Abraham Lincoln as a war president), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov, Iss. 2, Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; issue 2; in memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 122–38. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.
Aynes, Richard L., “The 39th Congress (1865–1867) and the 14th Amendment: Some Preliminary Perspectives,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1019–49.
Bahde, Thomas, “‘Our Cause Is a Common One’: Home Guards, Union Leagues, and Republican Citizenship in Illinois, 1861–1863,” Civil War History, 56 (March 2010), 66–98.
Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, “‘Gallinippers’ and Glory: The Links between Mosquito-Borne Disease and U.S. Civil War Operations and Strategy, 1862,” Journal of Military History, 74 (April 2010), 379–405.
Bonner, Michael Brem, “Expedient Corporatism and Confederate Political Economy,” Civil War History, 56 (March 2010), 33–65.
Bulla, David W., “Abraham Lincoln and Press Suppression Reconsidered,” American Journalism, 26 (Fall 2009), 11–33.
Carroll, Francis M., “Diplomats and the Civil War at Sea,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 40 (no. 1, 2010), 117–30.
Censer, Jane Turner, “Mary Bayard Clarke’s Plain-Folk Humor: Writing Women into the Literature and Politics of Reconstruction,” Journal of Southern History, 76 (May 2010), 241–74.
Clark, Donald A., “‘But What Should We Say?’: The Story of a Fallen Patriot,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 307–23.
Cole, Ryan L., “The Fiery Trial and the Indefinite Peaceful Future: Abraham Lincoln and the Law of War and the Law of Peace,” Lincoln Herald, 111 (Fall 2009), 222–34.
Coleman, Christopher Kiernan, “Ambrose Bierce in Civil War Tennessee: Nashville, Shiloh, and the Corinth Campaign,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Fall 2009), 250–69. Heavily illustrated.
Connally, C. Ellen, “The Use of the Fourteenth Amendment by Salmon P. Chase in the Trial of Jefferson Davis,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1165–1200.
Costa, Dora L., and Matthew E. Kahn, “Health, Wartime Stress, and Unit Cohesion: Evidence from Union Army Veterans,” Demography, 47 (Feb. 2010), 45–66.
Cronin, Mary M., “Fiend, Coward, Monster, or King: Southern Press Views of Abraham Lincoln,” American Journalism, 26 (Fall 2009), 35–61.
Davis, James A., “Musical Reconnaissance and Deception in the American Civil War,” Journal of Military History, 74 (Jan. 2010), 79–105.
Garfinkle, Norton, “Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War: The Fight for a Middle-Class Society,” Lincoln Herald, 111 (Winter 2009), 274–85.
Hibbard, James B., “‘When Will This Horrid War End!’: Lancaster’s Catharine Eaton on the Civil War Home Front,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Spring 2010), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Howell, Thomas, “Finding the Line: The Origin of Grant Parish and the Recent Dispute over Its Boundary,” Louisiana History, 51 (Spring 2010), 215–30.
Jones, Spencer, “The Influence of Horse Supply upon Field Artillery in the American Civil War,” Journal of Military History, 74 (April 2010), 357–77.
Komarovskaya, T. E., “Osmyslenie Grazhdanskoi voiny amerikanskim istoricheskim romanom 1920-kh–1930-kh godov” (The Civil War as represented in American historical novels of the 1920s and 1930s), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov, Iss. 2, Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays, issue 2, in memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 156–62. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.
Lawton, Christopher R., “Constructing the Cause, Bridging the Divide: Lee’s Tomb at Washington’s College,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Summer 2009), 5–39.
Lee, Chulhee, “Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Soldiers during the American Civil War,” Social Science History, 33 (Winter 2009), 427–57.
Leonard, Elizabeth D., “One Kentuckian’s Hard Choice: Joseph Holt and Abraham Lincoln,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 373–407.
Moneyhon, Carl H., “‘Texas Out-Radicals My Radicalism’: Roots of Radical Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 13–35. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)
Nicoletti, Cynthia, “The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle,” Law & History Review, 28 (Feb. 2010), 71–110.
Norman, John P., “‘Self-Preservation Is the Supreme Law’: State Rights vs. Military Necessity in Alabama Civil War Conscription Cases,” Alabama Law Review, 60 (no. 3, 2009), 727–49.
Risley, Ford, “The President’s Editor: John W. Forney of the Press and Morning Chronicle,” American Journalism, 26 (Fall 2009), 63–85.
Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R., “‘Your Work Is Truly a Good One’: Illinoisans and Soldiers’ Homes during the Civil War,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Autumn 2009), 195–212.
Smith, Jeffery A., “Lincoln’s Other War: Public Opinion, Press Issues, and Personal Pleas,” American Journalism, 26 (Fall 2009), 87–117.
Thomson, Ross, “The Continuity of Innovation: The Civil War Experience,” Enterprise & Society, 11 (March 2010), 128–65.
Towne, Stephen E., “Worse than Vallandigham: Governor Oliver P. Morton, Lambdin P. Milligan, and the Military Arrest and Trial of Indiana State Senator Alexander J. Douglas,” Indiana Magazine of History, 106 (March 2010), 1–39.
Williams, Frank J., “Abraham Lincoln: Lessons for Lawyers,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 36 (no. 2, 2009), 295–316.
Zietlow, Rebecca E., “The Rights of Citizenship: Two Framers, Two Amendments,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 11 (July 2009), 1269–88.
Bennett, Stewart L., “A Warfare of Giants: The Battle for Atlanta, July 22, 1864” (University of Maine, 2009). Order No. DA3364701.
Carlson, Robert D., “Breach of Faith: Conscription in Confederate Georgia” (Emory University, 2009). Order No. DA3359941.
Crowe, Clint, “War in the Nations: The Devastation of a Removed People during the American Civil War” (University of Arkansas, 2009). Order No. DA3361692.
Harlow, Luke Edward, “From Border South to Solid South: Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880” (Rice University, 2009). Order No. DA3362238.
Hoskins, Patricia Ann, “‘The Old First Is with the South’: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Memory in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky” (Auburn University, 2009). Order No. DA3365543.
Robertson, John Gordon, “Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Opportunity? Civil War Re-enlistment and the Right to Rise” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2009). Order No. DA3357596.
Sheffer, Debra J., “‘No Sacrifice Is Too Great, Save That of Honor’: Honor, Death, and Psychological Combat Trauma in the American Civil War” (University of Kansas, 2009). Order No. DA3365880.
Witt, Susan Powell, “The Gendered Language of War: Picturing the Parlor in Civil War America” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3364482.
Bynum, Victoria E., The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xiv, 221 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3381-0.)
Christ, Mark K., Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xii, 321 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4087-2.)
Grear, Charles David, Why Texans Fought in the Civil War. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. xvi, 239 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-60344-172-8.)
Hunt, Robert, The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xii, 178 pp. $36.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1688-4.)
Keegan, John, The American Civil War: A Military History. (New York: Knopf, 2009. xvi, 396 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-307-26343-8. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-307-27493-4.)
Lee, Dan, Kentuckian in Blue: A Biography of Major General Lovell Harrison Rousseau. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. viii, 246 pp. Paper, $38.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4818-0.)
Maxwell, John Gary, Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons. (Norman: Arthur H. Clark, 2010. 392 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-87062-388-2.)
Moneyhon, Carl H., Edmund J. Davis of Texas: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2010. xiv, 337 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87565-405-8.)
Salling, Stuart, Louisianians in the Western Confederacy: The Adams-Gibson Brigade in the Civil War. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 260 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4218-8.)
Townsend, Mary Bobbitt, Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2010. xvi, 270 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1875-9.)
Curry, John P., Volunteers’ Camp and Field Book Containing Useful and General Information on the Art and Science of War, for the Leisure Moments of the Soldier: 1862 Edition with Notes and an Appendix, ed. William B. Sargeant and John W. Brinsfield. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xviii, 190 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-88146-169-5.)
Hoyle, Joseph J., ‘Deliver Us from This Cruel War’: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Joseph J. Hoyle, 55th North Carolina Infantry, ed. Jeffrey M. Girvan. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 233 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4757-2.)
Marshall, Albert O., Army Life: From a Soldier’s Journal; Incidents, Sketches, and Record of a Union Soldier’s Army Life, in Camp and Field, 1861–64, ed. Robert G. Schultz. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xviii, 340 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-917-9.)
Quintard, Charles Todd, comp., The Confederate Soldier’s Pocket Manual of Devotions Including Balm for the Weary and the Wounded. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xxiv,173 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-88146-175-6.)
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