Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Bahde, Thomas, “‘I Never Wood Git Tired of Wrighting to You’: Home and Family in the Civil War Letters of Joseph and Currency Van Nattan,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Summer 2009), 129–54.
Baum, Dale, “Burdens of Landholding in a Freed Slave Settlement: The Case of Brazos County’s ‘Hall’s Town,’” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (Oct. 2009), 185–206.
Crider, Jonathan B., “De Bow’s Revolution: The Memory of the American Revolution in the Politics of the Sectional Crisis, 1850–1861,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (Sept. 2009), 317–32.
Davis, Robert Scott, “New Ideas from New Sources: Modern Research in Reconstruction, 1865–1876,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Fall 2009), 291–306.
Gallagher, Gary W., “Disaffection, Persistence, and Nation: Some Directions in Recent Scholarship on the Confederacy,” Civil War History, 55 (Sept. 2009), 329–53.
Huston, James L., “Theory’s Failure: Malthusian Population Theory and the Projected Demise of Slavery,” Civil War History, 55 (Sept. 2009), 354–81.
Noe, Kenneth W., “‘Alabama, We Will Fight for Thee’: The Initial Motivations of Later-Enlisting Confederates,” Alabama Review, 62 (July 2009), 163–89.
Rafuse, Ethan S., “‘Far More Than a Romantic Adventure’: The American Civil War in Harry Truman’s History and Memory,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Oct. 2009), 1–20.
Ruef, Martin, and Kelly Patterson, “Organizations and Local Development: Economic and Demographic Growth among Southern Counties during Reconstruction,” Social Forces, 87 (June 2009), 1743–71.
Thompson, David, “Oliver Otis Howard: Reassessing the Legacy of the ‘Christian General,’” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (Sept. 2009), 273–98.
Wasmer, Robert A., “Partisan Warfare in Monroe County, Tennessee, during the Civil War: The Murder of Joseph M. Divine,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Spring 2009), 66–97.
Arenson, Adam Isaac, “City of Manifest Destiny: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War, 1848–1877” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342552.
Bryant, Gary E., “Working Women in the Confederate South: White Southern Women in the Paid Labor Force during the Civil War” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3342758.
Ness, William Boyd, “‘Burning with Star-Fires’: The National Flag in Civil War Poetry” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3340271.
O’Connell, Edward T., “Public Commemoration of the Civil War and Monuments to Memory: The Triumph of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3340124.
Tarnowieckyi, Scott, “‘Between the Hawk and the Buzzard’: The Civil War in Henderson and Daviess Counties, Kentucky” (University of Arkansas, 2009). Order No. DA3341239.
Whaley, Michael Joseph, “‘It Was a Hostile City’: Disloyalty in Civil War St. Louis” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3337338.
Blair, William A., and Karen Fisher Younger, eds., Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 233 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3316-2.)
Davis, William C., and James I. Robertson Jr., eds., Virginia at War, 1864. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xiv, 242 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2562-6.)
Desjardin, Thomas A., Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxii, 245 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-19-538231-0.) Originally published in 1995.
Grant, Susan-Mary, and Brian Holden Reid, eds., Themes of the American Civil War: The War between the States. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xxvi, 396 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-99086-8. Paper, $36.95, isbn 978-0-415-99087-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Mingus, Scott L., Sr., The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June–July 1863. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xx, 315 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3479-5.)
Myers, John L., Henry Wilson and the Era of Reconstruction. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. xii, 301 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7618-4742-7.)
Shea, William L., Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. x, 358 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3315-5.)
Taylor, Paul, Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. xx, 354 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-60635-040-9.)
Warren, Craig A., Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. x, 223 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60635-015-7.)
Weintraub, Stanley, General Sherman’s Christmas: Savannah, 1864. (New York: HarperCollins, 2009. xviii, 238 pp. $24.99, isbn 978-0-06-170298-3.)
Browning, Judkin, ed., The Southern Mind under Union Rule: The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862–1865. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xvi, 199 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3407-2.)
Hsiung, David C., ed., A Mountaineer in Motion: The Memoir of Dr. Abraham Jobe, 1817–1906. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xviii, 206 pp. $37.95, isbn 978-1-57233-489-2.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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