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Chained To History: Slavery And U.S. Foreign Relations To 1865, Robert Bonner
Chained To History: Slavery And U.S. Foreign Relations To 1865, Robert Bonner
Civil War Book Review
"With Chained to History, Stephen Brady makes a signal contribution to nineteenth-century history: producing a comprehensive, well-written, and authoritative one-volume account of the impact of Black slavery on early U.S. statecraft."
Civil War Obscura: Madame Castel’S Lodger, Meg Groeling
Civil War Obscura: Madame Castel’S Lodger, Meg Groeling
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In 2019, most folks know what fan fiction is, and this book definitely falls into that category. I have never read a book quite like Madame Castel’s Lodger, a semi-factual, semi-fictional biography of Confederate General P. T. G. Beauregard. Digging up old books that once were popular may seem like an odd hobby, but this particular volume reminds me of why I do it. It is truly an homage to Beauregard and gives some insight into his character only possible if the writer is southern herself.
Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, And Personhood In The Americas, 1830-1940, Samuel Redman
Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, And Personhood In The Americas, 1830-1940, Samuel Redman
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The Long Darwinian Nineteenth Century Over the course of the nineteenth century "personhood," how to exactly to define a person and fitting them into the evolving social fabric, became a hotly contested problem. Constructing personhood served a critically important function in governance, expanding....
Cwbr Author Interview: The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History, Craig A. Warren
Cwbr Author Interview: The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History, Craig A. Warren
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Interview with Craig A. Warren, Associate Professor of English and Prodessional Writing at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Interviewed by Zach Isenhower
Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is happy to speak with Craig A. Warren, Associate Professor of English and Professional Writing at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. Professor Warren previously authored Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction, and today we get to discuss his most recent book, The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History. Professor Warren, thank you for joining us today. Craig A. …
The Blue, The Gray, And The Green: Toward An Environmental History Of The Civil War, Theresa L. Young
The Blue, The Gray, And The Green: Toward An Environmental History Of The Civil War, Theresa L. Young
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Environmental History More than “Waving the Muddy Shirt"
The works contained in The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War are groundbreaking, not only for their content but also for their potential to expand the connections between the two s....
William Lloyd Garrison: Abolition, Democracy, And Radical Reform, Lawrence B. Goodheart
William Lloyd Garrison: Abolition, Democracy, And Radical Reform, Lawrence B. Goodheart
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Story of an Unlikely Duo
Since the international entanglements commencing with the Second World War, an exclusive national history of the United States has proven to be a woefully parochial and an inadequate paradigm. Comparative analysis, particularly a focus on the Atlantic world, is n....
The Dred Scott Case: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives On Race And Law., Xi Wang
The Dred Scott Case: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives On Race And Law., Xi Wang
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Examining Dred Scott’s Impact and Legacy
Few Supreme Court cases have attained the level of notoriety as the Dred Scott case. Even fewer have attracted such a widespread and persistent attention from scholars across academic disciplines. The Dred Scott Case: Historical and ....
Rediscovering Civil War Classics:Rediscovering Lincoln The Writer, David Madden
Rediscovering Civil War Classics:Rediscovering Lincoln The Writer, David Madden
Civil War Book Review
Abraham Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer By Fred Kaplan New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Among the many titles and sub-titles of biographies of Lincoln, Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, serves to remind us that Lincoln was a writer. In my column this time, I am not redi....
Rediscovering Civil War Classics: Civil War Books Not Yet Written, David Madden
Rediscovering Civil War Classics: Civil War Books Not Yet Written, David Madden
Civil War Book Review
Civil War Books Not Yet Written
Before we imagine books not yet written, I wish to say a few words about two novels that almost got written. Reading the early novels of Frank Norris, a major American novelist of the early twentieth century about whom Americans have a major case of amnes....Charlestonians In War: The Charleston Battalion, William A. Spedale
Charlestonians In War: The Charleston Battalion, William A. Spedale
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Hometown heroes
A Carolina war chronicle
When he conceived Charlestonians In War: The Charleston Battalion, author W. Chris Phelps debunked the old adage prevalent among the laity that there couldn't possibly be anything new to be written about the American Civil War. Up t....Warm Ashes: Issues In Southern History At The Dawn Of The Twenty-First Century, Christopher Paul Anderson
Warm Ashes: Issues In Southern History At The Dawn Of The Twenty-First Century, Christopher Paul Anderson
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Living history
Searching the past for clues about the present
Two things are immediately apparent from Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. First and foremost, the field is as fertile as it has ever been. This collection includes ....From Shiloh To Savannah: The Seventh Illinois Infantry In The Civil War, B. Franklin Cooling
From Shiloh To Savannah: The Seventh Illinois Infantry In The Civil War, B. Franklin Cooling
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Military Memoir
A newly annotated edition of Ambrose's account
With all due respect to the writer and filmmaker for Gods and Generals, most of the Civil War took place beyond the ken of Lee, Jackson, and Virginia. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this new edition of D....Theater Of War: Capturing Battle In Film And Fiction An Interview With Ron Maxwell And Jeff Shaara, Laura Ng
Theater Of War: Capturing Battle In Film And Fiction An Interview With Ron Maxwell And Jeff Shaara, Laura Ng
Civil War Book Review
Facts reveal battle strategies, political maneuvering, and casualty lists that give us the details of war. But it is the fictional accounts produced over the past 130 years that convey the intimate, human moments that pierce our hearts and illuminate our imaginations. The novel--and in modern time....