Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Bean, Christopher R., “The Freedmen’s Bureau and Logistical Problems in Texas, 1865–1868,” Military History of the West, 39 (2009), 1–20.
Crofts, Daniel W., “A Fresh Look at The Diary of a Public Man,” Civil War History, 55 (Dec. 2009), 442–68.
Ferguson, Robert A., “Hearing Lincoln and the Making of Eloquence,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 687–724.
Gentry, Judy, “Confederates and Cotton in East Texas,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (Winter 2010), 20–39.
Grear, Charles D., “Debating the Rebellion: A Texan and a New Yorker Discuss Secession and the Civil War,” Military History of the West, 39 (2009), 41–57.
Hacker, J. David, Libra Hilde, and James Holland Jones, “The Effect of the Civil War on Southern Marriage Patterns,” Journal of Southern History, 76 (Feb. 2010), 39–70.
Jamison, King Wells, “North and South at Britton’s Lane, September 1862: Looking in a Different Direction,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 69 (Summer 2009), 114–29. Heavily illustrated.
Kuropiatnik, G. P., “Rost politicheskogo vliianiia Ligi storonnikov Soiuza v khode izbiratel’nykh kampanii 1863–1864 godov” (The rise of the political influence and power of the American Union League with special attention to its campaign activities in 1863–1864), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 134–49. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.
Lang, Andrew F., “The Bass Grays: An Economic, Social, and Demographic Profile of Company D, Seventh Texas Infantry,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (Winter 2010), 72–94.
Lowe, William C., “‘A Grand and Patriotic Pilgrimage’: The Iowa Civil War Monuments Dedication Tour of 1906,” Annals of Iowa, 69 (Winter 2010), 1–50.
Sebrell, Thomas E., II, “The ‘Fighting Fifth’: The Fifth Mighican Infantry Regiment in the Civil War’s Peninsula Campaign,” Michigan Historical Review, 35 (Fall 2009), 27–52.
Shelden, Rachel A., “Measures for a ‘Speedy Conclusion’: A Reexamination of Conscription and Civil War Federalism,” Civil War History, 55 (Dec. 2009), 469–98.
Silverman, Gillian, “‘The Best Circus in Town’: Embodied Theatrics in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 757–87.
Smith, Michael Thomas, “‘For Love of Cotton’: Nathaniel P. Banks, Union Strategy, and the Red River Campaign,” Louisiana History, 51 (Winter 2010), 5–26.
Storie, Melanie Greer, “‘Heroic Courage and Unfaltering Devotion’: A Gathering of East Tennessee Veterans,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 69 (Summer 2009), 174–97. Heavily illustrated.
Townes, A. Jane, “Was Shelbyville Really a Union Town in a Confederate County? New Views on a Middle Tennessee Community in 1862,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 69 (Summer 2009), 130–51. Heavily illustrated.
Barker, Gordon S., “Anthony Burns and the North-South Dialogue on Slavery, Liberty, Race, and the American Revolution” (College of William and Mary, 2009). Order No. DA3353200.
Barreyre, Nicolas, “Sectionalisme et politique aux Etats-Unis: Le Midwest et la Reconstruction, 1865–1877” (Sectionalism and politics in the United States: The Midwest and Reconstruction) (Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales, France, 2008). In French.
Bean, Christopher B., “A Stranger amogst Strangers: An Analysis of the Freedman’s Bureau Subassistant Commissioners in Texas, 1865–1868” (University of North Texas, 2008). Order No. DA3352073.
Burrows, Sara Eye, “‘Left to Our Fate’: South Carolina Women during the Civil War and Reconstruction” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3351684.
Duncan, Christopher M., “Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3348264.
Gourley, Bruce Thomas, “Baptists in Middle Georgia during the Civil War” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3348267.
Pierce, Katherine Anna, “Networks of Disunion: Politics, Print Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3353858.
Reed, Jordan Lewis, “American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism in the Civil War Era” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3349738.
Selby, Kelly D., “The 27th United States Colored Troops: Ohio Soldiers and Veterans” (Kent State University, 2008). Order No. DA3350942.
Sheppard, Jonathan C., “‘By the Noble Daring of Her Sons’: The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348543.
Speiser, Matthew Aaron, “Seeking the Roots of the Lost Cause: The Continuity of Regional Celebration in the White South, 1850–1872” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3348729.
Willett, Adrian Schultze Buser, “Our House was Divided: Kentucky Women and the Civil War” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3344610.
Bonan, Gordon B., The Edge of Mosby’s Sword: The Life of Confederate Colonel William Henry Chapman. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xiv, 220 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2932-8.)
Harris, Sharon M., Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1831–1919. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xii, 308 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4611-7.)
Kuropiatnik, G. P., Grazhdanskaia voina v Severnoi Amerike 1861–1865 (The Civil War in North America, 1861–1865). (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 354 pp. isbn 978-5-02-036749-4.) In Russian.
Löttel, Holger, Um Ehre und Anerkennung: Englandbilder im amerikanischen Süden und die Außenpolitik der Konföderation (To honor and recognition: Pictures of England in the American south and the foreign policy of the Confederacy). (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2009. 468 pp. €54.00, isbn 978-3-515-09334-7.) In German.
Schafer, Daniel L., Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xiv, 348 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3419-5.)
Trimpi, Helen P., Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men Who Fought for the South. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010. xxviii, 380 pp. $69.00, isbn 978-1-57233-682-7.)
Holzer, Harold, ed., Lincoln and New York. (New York: New York Historical Society, 2009. xiii, 277 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-85667-669-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Nation, Richard F., and Stephen E. Towne, eds., Indiana’s War: The Civil War in Documents. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xx, 252 pp. Paper, $18.65, isbn 978-0-8214-1847-5.)
Reynolds, Thomas C., General Sterling Price and the Confederacy, ed. Robert G. Schultz. (St. Louis: Missouri History Museum, 2009. 279 pp. Paper, $18.96, isbn 978-1-883982-68-3.)
Siddali, Silvana R., ed., Missouri’s War: The Civil War in Documents. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xxii, 274 pp. Paper, $18.65, isbn 978-0-8214-1732-4.)
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