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Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, And Transatlantic Culture In The 1850s, Elizabeth Ammons
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, And Transatlantic Culture In The 1850s, Elizabeth Ammons
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Interpretations of the Effect of Stowe's Novel
When Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the White House in the 1860s, President Lincoln is said to have greeted her with the words: So you are the little lady who started the great war. Today, while historians debate abo....The Lincolns In The White House: Four Years That Shattered A Family, Pederson. William D.
The Lincolns In The White House: Four Years That Shattered A Family, Pederson. William D.
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The East Wing in Crisis
Civil Strife in the Presidential Family
The author of a half-dozen popular histories of the Vatican, World War II, the British royalty and the American civil rights movement, Jerrold M. Packard enters the crowded field of Lincoln studies with this book. It....What Lincoln Believed: The Values And Convictions Of America's Greatest President, Frank J. Williams
What Lincoln Believed: The Values And Convictions Of America's Greatest President, Frank J. Williams
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Presidential Values
The Inner Thoughts of Abraham Lincoln
Michl Lind presents an ambivalent picture of Lincoln in this book--it is almost schizophrenic. On the one hand he praises him as the Great Democrat who preserved America's experiment in self-government during an undemocrat....Cities Of The Dead: Contesting The Memory Of The Civil War In The South, 1865-1914, Geraldo Lujan Cadava
Cities Of The Dead: Contesting The Memory Of The Civil War In The South, 1865-1914, Geraldo Lujan Cadava
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Continual Strife and Public Memory
Commemorations in the aftermath of the War
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many in the Gulf Coast region worried that flood waters would raise the water table and push airtight coffins to the earth's surface, sending them floating down ci....Civil War Time: Temporality And Identity In America, 1861-1865, Amy R. Minton
Civil War Time: Temporality And Identity In America, 1861-1865, Amy R. Minton
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Perception and Relativity
The Experience of Time during the Civil War
During the first half of the 19th century, Americans both North and South participated in multiple, and sometimes overlapping, systems of time. These included the natural time of the seasons, individual days, ....Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture In The South, 1863-1913, Mitch Kachun
Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture In The South, 1863-1913, Mitch Kachun
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African American Commemorations
The Control of Past and a Hold on the Future
In 1989 David W. Blight's Frederick Douglass' Civil War helped pave the way for increasing scholarly attention to the ways in which the then emergent field of memory studies might be applied to th....Donnybrook: The Battle Of Bull Run, 1861, Stacy D. Allen
Donnybrook: The Battle Of Bull Run, 1861, Stacy D. Allen
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Shattered Expectations
The Battle for Manassas
With the publication of this book, David Detzer, professor emeritus of history with Connecticut State University, follows his widely acclaimed Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston and the Beginning of the Civil War with a ma....Mark Twain In Japan: The Cultural Reception Of An American Icon, Russell Reising
Mark Twain In Japan: The Cultural Reception Of An American Icon, Russell Reising
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American Literature in an Eastern Culture
Japanese Interpretation and Absorption of Mark Twain
Tsuyoshi Ishihara's study of the Japanese reception of Mark Twain may not be of much interest to those with a narrow focus on the American Civil War. On the other hand, it is of immense....Mary Edwards Walker: Above And Beyond, Giselle Roberts
Mary Edwards Walker: Above And Beyond, Giselle Roberts
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A Life of Service
Defying Convention and Attaining the Medal of Honour
Perhaps the most frustrating problem facing any historian is finding an interesting story that deserves to be told, yet lacks the necessary primary material to tell it fully. In his new book, Mary Edward....The Death And Resurrection Of Jefferson Davis, Jeffrey Elton Anderson
The Death And Resurrection Of Jefferson Davis, Jeffrey Elton Anderson
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Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget
The Life of the Legend of Jefferson Davis
Moving is not a word one associates with histories of memory. Donald E. Collins's Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis is an exception to that rule. In large part, the emotional po....Annotations, Cwbr_Editor
The Civil War In History And Memory, Christopher Skye Freeman
The Civil War In History And Memory, Christopher Skye Freeman
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It has been a difficult time for the Civil War Book Review and the rest of the Louisiana community the past several months. In the aftermath of Katrina, Frank Hardie, both my successor and predecessor as editor of the Review, was forced through difficult circumstances to leave Louisiana and ....
Justice Curtis In The Civil War Era: At The Crossroads Of American Constitutionalism, Michael C. Berheide
Justice Curtis In The Civil War Era: At The Crossroads Of American Constitutionalism, Michael C. Berheide
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Let Us Now Praise Practical MenBenjamin Curtis and he Dangers of Principled Pragmatism
Benjamin Curtis served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857, and was intellectually active during a time of intense and widespread debate about the meaning of various Constitutional provisions, an....Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan At Gettysburg Û And Why It Failed, B. F. Cooling
Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan At Gettysburg Û And Why It Failed, B. F. Cooling
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An Overarching Stratagem
The Confederate Battle Plan at Gettysburg
Will the battle of Gettysburg never cease to fascinate us? Is there a student or historian of the Civil War û dead, alive or yet to be born û who hasn't, doesn't or will not dream of writing some new breakthrough....What Caused The Civil War?: Reflections On The South And Southern History, Edward L. Ayers
What Caused The Civil War?: Reflections On The South And Southern History, Edward L. Ayers
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Edward L. Ayers is the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. His book, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863, won the Bancroft Prize and the Albert J. Be....
Rediscovering Civil War Classics:The Shattered Dream Of Childhood, David Madden
Rediscovering Civil War Classics:The Shattered Dream Of Childhood, David Madden
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I conceived this column in a dream early one morning and I am writing it soon after. In Faulkner's imagination in The Bear, America was an Edenic dream baptized in its childhood in the nightmare of slavery and revolution and finally shattered in the Civil War and Reconstruction. The cle....
Civil War Treasures: Prompt Succorboston Nun Offers Comfort To New Orleans Prisoner, Leah W. Jewett
Civil War Treasures: Prompt Succorboston Nun Offers Comfort To New Orleans Prisoner, Leah W. Jewett
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New Acquisitions in the
Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections,
LSU Libraries' Special Collections
A Sailor's Life
Collection: Robert A. Mullen correspondence, Mss. 4140, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, L....The Voyage Of The Css Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise, William H. Roberts
The Voyage Of The Css Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise, William H. Roberts
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Life on a Confederate Raider
Timeless and Bound
The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah is the cruise journal of Lt. William Conway Whittle, Jr., the executive officer (second in command) of the Confederate commerce raider Shenandoah. Lucid and detailed, Whittle's writing ....Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography Of A Baltimore Confederate, John Deppen
Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography Of A Baltimore Confederate, John Deppen
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Psychology of a General
An Experiment and Exploration of Character
Leslie Tucker's new book on Confederate Maj. Gen. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble is as much of a biographical experiment as it is a review of the facts of Trimble's long and accomplished life. The experiment succeeds, bu....Mcclellan's War, Russel H. Beatie
Mcclellan's War, Russel H. Beatie
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The Controversial Commander
Little Mac, Lincoln, and the Army of the Potomac
Bashers beware! Your days of unbridled freedom have come to an end; you can no longer say anything, use the sources carelessly, or announce irrational conclusions. White knights are not "rescuing" the ....Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard And Its Role In Reconstruction, 1867-1869, Christopher Phillips
Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard And Its Role In Reconstruction, 1867-1869, Christopher Phillips
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Political Partisans
Ordering a Conquered Province
The scene is all too familiar. In the aftermath of a war of invasion, one that divided local residents just as it did the society of the invading armies, a violent, homegrown insurgency quickly emerged to displace the provisional au....The Confederate States Of America: What Might Have Been, John S. Benson
The Confederate States Of America: What Might Have Been, John S. Benson
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We All Whistle Dixie
The World of a Split Polity
What if? This is a favorite subject for many civil war buffs. What if Stonewall Jackson had lived and marched with Robert E. Lee to Gettysburg? What if Lee's orders for troop movements were not lost and subsequently retrieved by U....The Visualization Of Cartographic Information: A Review Essay Of Six Civil War Atlases, James D. Hardy Jr., Leonard J. Hochberg
The Visualization Of Cartographic Information: A Review Essay Of Six Civil War Atlases, James D. Hardy Jr., Leonard J. Hochberg
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The Visualization of Cartographic Information: A Review Essay of Six Civil War Atlases
by Hardy, Jr. James D. and Hochberg, Leonard J. Issue: Winter 2006Acknowledgement: This essay would not have been possible had the authors not worked with Professor Edward Whiting Fox, historian, c....Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2006, Lsu Agcenter
Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2006, Lsu Agcenter
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Horace Greeley: Champion Of American Freedom, Estelle Ford-Williamson
Horace Greeley: Champion Of American Freedom, Estelle Ford-Williamson
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Innovator and Liberator
A Different Vision of Freedom
Horace Greeley is known to schoolchildren and others as the author of the advice, Go west, young man, go west! We associate his name with this command, which echoed the enthusiasm and unbridled opportunity that led to settleme....Slave Country: American Expansion And The Origins Of The Deep South, David Lucander
Slave Country: American Expansion And The Origins Of The Deep South, David Lucander
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Slavery, Politics, and the Civil War
The Changing of Face of the Young Republic
Adam Rothman's Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South is a timely monograph that reminds scholars about the various ideological and political motivations driving t....Slave Country: American Expansion And The Origins Of The Deep South, Adam Rothman
Slave Country: American Expansion And The Origins Of The Deep South, Adam Rothman
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Adam Rothman is an associate professor of history at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in Atlantic history, the history of slavery, and nineteenth-century United States history. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000.
Beyond the Cotton Gin: Dr. Adam Roth....
Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing And The Shattering Of The Union, Beverly Wilson Palmer
Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing And The Shattering Of The Union, Beverly Wilson Palmer
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Erudite and Able
A Tortuous Political Path
John Belohlavek's life of Caleb Cushingùlawyer, scholar, congressman, soldier, cabinet minister, and diplomatùcovers many of the nineteenth century's crucial events. As a Massachusetts congressman in the 1830s, Cushing straddled the anti....Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle To End Slavery, Jill Ogline
Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle To End Slavery, Jill Ogline
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Moral Statecraft
Lincoln and Abolitionism
Of all of our political icons, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are perhaps the two that Americans most want to trust. No longer guided by the great man school of history, we recognize both their feet of clay and the fact that neith....First Lady Of The Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War, Giselle Roberts