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Civil War Treasures: "Louis Kossuth And The Unwinnable Dilemma Of Slavery", Hans Rasmussen
Civil War Treasures: "Louis Kossuth And The Unwinnable Dilemma Of Slavery", Hans Rasmussen
Civil War Book Review
Hans Rasmussen uses archival material from LSU Library's special collections to examine how and why nineteenth-century-Americans celebrated Louis Kossuth, an anti-Russian-imperialism activist, and how their behavior resembles pro-Volodymyr Zelensky sentiment today.
Fighting For Citizenship: Black Northerners And The Debate Over Military Service In The Civil War, Jonathan Lande
Fighting For Citizenship: Black Northerners And The Debate Over Military Service In The Civil War, Jonathan Lande
Civil War Book Review
"Taylor broadens the focus of scholarship on Black Northerners during the war from the most prominent leaders to newspaper editors and other local trailblazers, showing that not all Black Northerners trusted military service would garner citizenship," and in doing so, “Taylor’s Fighting for Citizenship hits its mark.”
Cwbr Author Interview: Thunder At The Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America, Douglas R. Egerton
Cwbr Author Interview: Thunder At The Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America, Douglas R. Egerton
Civil War Book Review
Interview with Douglas Egerton, author of Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America Interviewed by Tom Barber Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is pleased to speak with Douglas Egerton, Professor of History at Le Moyne College and....
Civil War Treasures: English Satire On The American Civil War From The Pages Of Punch, Hans Rasmussen Micael
Civil War Treasures: English Satire On The American Civil War From The Pages Of Punch, Hans Rasmussen Micael
Civil War Book Review
Punch, or the London Charivari, a justly famous British weekly satirical magazine established in 1841, had become a national institution by the time the American Civil War began. Its brilliant writers and cartoonists naturally made sport of the politics of the war, casting their witty and di....
Women, Work, And Worship In Lincoln\'S Country: The Dumville Family Letters, Bao Bui
Women, Work, And Worship In Lincoln\'S Country: The Dumville Family Letters, Bao Bui
Civil War Book Review
Four Women's Stories In 1840 the Dumville family left England and settled in the American Midwest. They joined the millions of European, chiefly German and Irish, who immigrated to United States in the 1840s and 1850s. Thanks to the meticulous research by the editors of Women, Work, and Worshi....
Cwbr Author Interview: Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, And White Supremacy In Civil War-Era Charleston, Jeff Strickland
Cwbr Author Interview: Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, And White Supremacy In Civil War-Era Charleston, Jeff Strickland
Civil War Book Review
Interview with Jeff Strickland, Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University
Interviewed by Zach Isenhower
Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is pleased to speak with Jeff Strickland, Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University. Today we get to talk about his most recent book, Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War-Era Charleston. Professor Strickland, thank you for joining us today. Jeff Strickland (JS): Hi Zach, it's an honor to speak with you.
A Massacre In Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook The Nation One Year After The Civil War, Fred Johnson
A Massacre In Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook The Nation One Year After The Civil War, Fred Johnson
Civil War Book Review
Class, Race, and Riot in Reconstruction Memphis
In May 1866, as the United States struggled to heal from the trauma of its bloody Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865), millions of Americans, for the first time, found themselves living in a land unburdened by slavery. For most whites ....
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Civil War Sesquicentennial : Union Soldiers' Motivations, Chandra Manning
Civil War Sesquicentennial : Union Soldiers' Motivations, Chandra Manning
Civil War Book Review
State of the Field: Where are Union Soldiers Now, and Where in the World Should they Go Next?
“Who wouldn’t be a soldier?" joked many new Union Army recruits when they wrote home to complain about the bad food and boring drill exercises that characterized their first weeks of service. So....
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, And Survival In Early Baltimore, Cynthia M. Kennedy
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, And Survival In Early Baltimore, Cynthia M. Kennedy
Civil War Book Review
Slavery in an American City
Women and men who eked out an existence—the laboring poor whose work was short term, menial, and hard and whose lives often remain hidden from the historical record—come into sharp relief in the aptly named Scraping By. In his new work, Seth Rockman imm....Annotations, Cwbr_Editor
Away Down South: A History Of Southern Identity, David Gleeson
Away Down South: A History Of Southern Identity, David Gleeson
Civil War Book Review
Regional Identities
Understanding the South
James C. Cobb has set for himself the monumental task of writing the history of identity in the South from the American Revolution to 2005, the year of publication of this work. Without getting bogged down in too much theory, Cobb defi....The Bold Sons Of Erin, Randal Allred
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
Paradise Alley, John Jakes
Paradise Alley, John Jakes
Civil War Book Review
That fateful week
A fictional exploration of the 1863 New York Draft Riots
Reading Kevin Baker's massive novel set during the New York draft riots is rather like returning to a favorite city after a considerable absence û the surroundings are familiar, and so are many of the peop....Trouble In The Finger Lakes: Lincoln's Colorful Sleuth Abel Jones Investigates Civilian Unrest, Thomas Hill
Trouble In The Finger Lakes: Lincoln's Colorful Sleuth Abel Jones Investigates Civilian Unrest, Thomas Hill
Civil War Book Review
Shadows of Glory is Owen Parry's second Abel Jones historical suspense novel. The first mystery, Faded Coat of Blue, was set in Washington, D.C., at the very beginning of the conflict. It received very favorable reviews. The present installment takes place mostly in the Finger Lakes re....
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