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Li'l Dan, The Drummer Boy A Civil War Story, Romare Bearden Dec 2004

Li'l Dan, The Drummer Boy A Civil War Story, Romare Bearden

Civil War Book Review

Li'l Dan, The Drummer Boy: Interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou and Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley by Leah Wood Jewett

Maya Angelou is a celebrated poet, writer, and educator. The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor. She....


The Culture Of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, And Recovery, David W. Blight Dec 2004

The Culture Of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, And Recovery, David W. Blight

Civil War Book Review

Fascination with Failure

Lost wars inform collective memory

Why is defeat often more interesting than victory? Why is tragedy sometimes more compelling to the historical imagination than success by arms or economic prowess? Why or how does failed heroism, when fashioned into th....


Outrageous Women Of Civil War Times, Virginia Mercher Dec 2004

Outrageous Women Of Civil War Times, Virginia Mercher

Civil War Book Review

Fascinating Females

Book seeks to highlight historical figures

I have mixed feelings about this book. On the surface the premise is a good one—it offers young girls exciting stories about women in history and shows them that women have played an important role in the shaping of ....


The Union Cavalry Comes Of Age: Hartwood Church To Brandy Station, 1863, Don Evans Dec 2004

The Union Cavalry Comes Of Age: Hartwood Church To Brandy Station, 1863, Don Evans

Civil War Book Review

Riding High

Years and experience improved effectiveness of horse soldiers

For the first two years of the American Civil War, Union cavalry troopers seemed to enter battle with a "kick me" sign taped to their backs. Thus the average Confederate trooper considered himself the equal....


The Bloody Crucible Of Courage: Fighting Methods And Combat Experience Of The Civil War, Major Charles R. Bowery Dec 2004

The Bloody Crucible Of Courage: Fighting Methods And Combat Experience Of The Civil War, Major Charles R. Bowery

Civil War Book Review

Tactical Treatise

Author challenges views of combat

Was the American Civil War a Napoleonic war fought poorly by untrained citizen armies, as Paddy Griffith claims in Battle Tactics of the Civil War (1989)? Or was it a modern war that fit within the context of late- ninet....


Signatures Of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, And Women's Political Identity, Beverly Wilson Palmer Dec 2004

Signatures Of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, And Women's Political Identity, Beverly Wilson Palmer

Civil War Book Review

Exercising their Rights

Study reveals women's roles in reform

In her study of women's petitioning in the antebellum period, Susan Zske quotes Samuel Johnson: "This petitioning is a new mode of distressing government, and a mighty easy one." Indeed, Zske effectively portrays the ....


The Confederate Belle, Jory Reedy Dec 2004

The Confederate Belle, Jory Reedy

Civil War Book Review

Fascinating Females

Book seeks to highlight historical figures

I have mixed feelings about this book. On the surface the premise is a good one ù it offers young girls exciting stories about women in history and shows them that women have played an important role in the shaping o....


Feature Essay, David Madden Dec 2004

Feature Essay, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Swinging a Sabre Dipped in Ink

American artist's political parries and thrusts retold

Did Van Gogh, Degas, Daumier, and Dore sketch the American Civil War?Of course not. But in the satirical and sentimental sketches and paintings of the war by Thomas Nast one sees resemblances b....


Hallowed Ground: A Walk At Gettysburg, Eric Campbell Dec 2004

Hallowed Ground: A Walk At Gettysburg, Eric Campbell

Civil War Book Review

On the Battlefield

Scholar illustrates trek through sacred space

The combination of the country's preeminent Civil War historian writing about the most famous battle in American history would it seems, produce an irresistible book. The result is Hallowed Ground, A Walk at Get....


Gettysburg: Memory, Market, And An American Shrine, Glenn W. Lafantasie Dec 2004

Gettysburg: Memory, Market, And An American Shrine, Glenn W. Lafantasie

Civil War Book Review

Paying Homage

Scholar identifies commercial roots of battlefield's development

For Americans, all roads lead to Gettysburg. As the site of one of the Civil War's most pivotal battles and the most famous speech in American history, Gettysburg has come to mean many different thing....


In Time Of War, Diana E. Barrett Dec 2004

In Time Of War, Diana E. Barrett

Civil War Book Review

Turning Back the Clock

Modern characters struggle to navigate the past

In Time of War, by Allen Appel, starts with a bang—literally. Time-traveler, Alex Balfour, arrives on a steep hillside in the Shenandoah Valley between the forces of Custer and Sheridan just moments be....


Where The South Lost The War: An Analysis Of The Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862, John D. Fowler Dec 2004

Where The South Lost The War: An Analysis Of The Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862, John D. Fowler

Civil War Book Review

River Sentinels

Fall of Confederate strongholds recounted

On Sunday, February 16, 1862, jubilant Federal forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson, along with more than 12,000 Confederate prisoners and a mountain of weapons and supplies. The fal....


Historiography And Civil War, Christopher S. Freeman Dec 2004

Historiography And Civil War, Christopher S. Freeman

Civil War Book Review

The father of history, Herodotus, in The Histories, wrote so that human achievement may not become forgotten in time. While his intellectual successor, Thucydides, in The History of the Peloponnesian War, wrote for those who want to look into the truth of what was done in the past. T....


Feature Essay, James D. Hardy Dec 2004

Feature Essay, James D. Hardy

Civil War Book Review

Trials and Tribulations

Two Books offers insight into court cases

From the Compromise of 1850 through the Civil Rights cases, the Civil War era brought contentious jurisprudential issues to the Supreme Court. Litigation arose over Civil War measures, military justice, Reconstruct....


In The Presence Of Mine Enemies: War In The Heart Of America, 1859-1863, Paul Christopher Anderson Dec 2004

In The Presence Of Mine Enemies: War In The Heart Of America, 1859-1863, Paul Christopher Anderson

Civil War Book Review

View from the Valley

Book compares Pennsylvania and Virginia counties

When Edward L. Ayers last published a book on the scale of his new one, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, he found himself defending what he called an experiment in narrative history. That work, The Pr....


Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission And Enslavement In New Orleans, 1846-1862, Kym S. Rice Dec 2004

Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission And Enslavement In New Orleans, 1846-1862, Kym S. Rice

Civil War Book Review

Fragile Freedom

Lawsuits illuminate struggle to maintain liberty

Legal historian Judith Kelleher Schafer's book compliments other recent and important studies of manumission and freedom in the antebellum South. Schafer's work, like Stephen Whitman and Christopher Phillips study....


Guerrilla Season, Julia Rose Dec 2004

Guerrilla Season, Julia Rose

Civil War Book Review

Friend or Foe?

Fictional family fights enemies at home

Matt Howard's boots were too small causing him pain when he plowed his family's corn fields and hunted rabbits for his widowed mother and five siblings. Matt refused to exchange his cramped boots for shoes big enough for a ma....


A Country Of Our Own: A Novel Of The Civil War At Sea, Thomas Dyja Dec 2004

A Country Of Our Own: A Novel Of The Civil War At Sea, Thomas Dyja

Civil War Book Review

War on the Waves

Novel details battles at sea

If you can use fardage in a sentence, you may well enjoy this book more than the lay reader who will be, sorry to say, left at sea by A Country of Our Own, not so much a nautical thriller as a Civil War technothriller. While C.....


Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters Of The Confederacy And The Preservation Of Confederate Culture, Jennifer Ritterhouse Dec 2004

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters Of The Confederacy And The Preservation Of Confederate Culture, Jennifer Ritterhouse

Civil War Book Review

Caretakers of the Cause

History of organization outlined

In January 2000, when controversy erupted over the Confederate battle flag flying atop the South Carolina state capitol, the United Daughters of the Confederacy were there. June Murray Wells, president-general of the UDC, ....


Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, Steven E. Woodworth Dec 2004

Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, Steven E. Woodworth

Civil War Book Review

The President's Pen

Personal and political documents explored

This volume appears deceptively small but packs an amazing amount of valuable information on the life and career of the Confederate president. It contains the full text of well over 200 Davis documentsùpersonal letters....


Lincoln's Constitution, Michael Berheide Dec 2004

Lincoln's Constitution, Michael Berheide

Civil War Book Review

Liberty and Justice

Scholar dissects Fundamental Problem

There is a sort of Fundamental Problem of Politics which goes like this: how can a political community—which after all has as its essential function the control of individual behavior — be dedicated to liberty? Theorists a....


Meet John Trow: A Novel, Margeret C. Harrison Dec 2004

Meet John Trow: A Novel, Margeret C. Harrison

Civil War Book Review

Rapt in Reenactment

Portrayal of historical figure transforms modern "everyman"

Steven Armour is a middle-aged man in the contemporary world who possesses all the ingredients necessary for happiness, but is discontented with the mixture he has concocted. Steven Armour is a mod....


Southerners In Blue: They Defied The Confederacy, Noel Fisher Dec 2004

Southerners In Blue: They Defied The Confederacy, Noel Fisher

Civil War Book Review

Wanting No Part in War

Men from Northern Alabama were forced to make difficult choices

Southerners in Blue is an intimate history of a small group of Unionist families in Civil War Winston County. Located in northwest Alabama, Winston was part of a cluster of counties that....


The Bold Sons Of Erin, Randal Allred Dec 2004

The Bold Sons Of Erin, Randal Allred

Civil War Book Review

Crime of Passion

Welsh detective at work

Owen Parry's fifth installment in the Abel Jones series has lost none of the energy and authenticity that characterize the earlier novels. Indeed, this novel comes closest to plucking the chords of Jones's inner being. He is led to quest....


Annotations, Cwbr_Editor Dec 2004

Annotations, Cwbr_Editor

Civil War Book Review

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A Survey On The Use And Misuse Of Attention/Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd) Stimulant Medication Among Louisiana State University Students, Devan R. Guidry Dec 2004

A Survey On The Use And Misuse Of Attention/Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd) Stimulant Medication Among Louisiana State University Students, Devan R. Guidry

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Stress And Sudden Changes On Decision-Making As Moderated By Individual Differences In Sensation-Seeking, Nataria T. Joseph Dec 2004

The Effects Of Stress And Sudden Changes On Decision-Making As Moderated By Individual Differences In Sensation-Seeking, Nataria T. Joseph

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


'You'll Get Nothing Out Of It'? The Inquest, Police And Aboriginal Deaths In Colonial Queensland, Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards Dec 2004

'You'll Get Nothing Out Of It'? The Inquest, Police And Aboriginal Deaths In Colonial Queensland, Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards

Faculty Publications

Colonisation in Australia entailed the establishment of legal institutions, but very often lagging the extension of the boundaries of settlement. As a common-law institution of ancient lineage the inquest was an important means of exploring reasons for unexplained deaths, even leading to prosecutions. Yet the protections afforded by rule of law institutions were nugatory where they affected Aboriginal people in conflict with settler society, as shown in this study of the many inquiries in which deaths were attributed to the actions of the police in colonial Queensland.


Resituating Faulkner: Faulkner, Proletarian Literature, And Post-Depression Culture, Peter J. Kee Nov 2004

Resituating Faulkner: Faulkner, Proletarian Literature, And Post-Depression Culture, Peter J. Kee

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Alu Element Mutation Spectra: Molecular Clocks And The Effect Of Dna Methylation, Jinchuan Xing, Dale J. Hedges, Kyudong Han, Hui Wang, Richard Cordaux, Mark A. Batzer Nov 2004

Alu Element Mutation Spectra: Molecular Clocks And The Effect Of Dna Methylation, Jinchuan Xing, Dale J. Hedges, Kyudong Han, Hui Wang, Richard Cordaux, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

In primate genomes more than 40% of CpG islands are found within repetitive elements. With more than one million copies in the human genome, the Alu family of retrotransposons represents the most successful short interspersed element (SINE) in primates and CpG dinucleotides make up about 20% of Alu sequences. It is generally thought that CpG dinucleotides mutate approximately ten times faster than other dinucleotides due to cytosine methylation and the subsequent deamination and conversion of C→T. However, the disparity of Alu subfamily age estimations based upon CpG or non-CpG substitution density indicates a more complex relationship between CpG and non-CpG …