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Louisiana Digital Library Collections As Data Intro Survey: Selected Survey Results To Support Reports And Publications, Sl Ziegler, Leah Powell Duncan, Elizabeth Joan Kelly Jan 2020

Louisiana Digital Library Collections As Data Intro Survey: Selected Survey Results To Support Reports And Publications, Sl Ziegler, Leah Powell Duncan, Elizabeth Joan Kelly

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Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2020, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 2020

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2020, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Gumbo Yearbook

The Gumbo yearbook chronicles the entire academic year at LSU. In words and especially photos, the Gumbo shows the people, places, and events that make each year unique. In addition to formal portraits of schools and departments, the book contains hundreds of snapshots of students with their friends and dozens of pages showcasing organizations.

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Methods For Broad-Scale Plant Phenology Assessments Using Citizen Scientists’ Photographs, Vijay V. Barve, Laura Brenskelle, Daijiang Li, Brian J. Stucky, Narayani V. Barve, Maggie M. Hantak, Bryan S. Mclean, Daniel J. Paluh, Jessica A. Oswald, Michael W. Belitz, Ryan A. Folk, Robert P. Guralnick Jan 2020

Methods For Broad-Scale Plant Phenology Assessments Using Citizen Scientists’ Photographs, Vijay V. Barve, Laura Brenskelle, Daijiang Li, Brian J. Stucky, Narayani V. Barve, Maggie M. Hantak, Bryan S. Mclean, Daniel J. Paluh, Jessica A. Oswald, Michael W. Belitz, Ryan A. Folk, Robert P. Guralnick

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© 2020 Barve et al. Applications in Plant Sciences is published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the Botanical Society of America Premise: Citizen science platforms for sharing photographed digital vouchers, such as iNaturalist, are a promising source of phenology data, but methods and best practices for use have not been developed. Here we introduce methods using Yucca flowering phenology as a case study, because drivers of Yucca phenology are not well understood despite the need to synchronize flowering with obligate pollinators. There is also evidence of recent anomalous winter flowering events, but with unknown spatiotemporal extents. Methods: We …

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Impaired Purine Homeostasis Plays A Primary Role In Trimethoprim-Mediated Induction Of Virulence Genes In Burkholderia Thailandensis, Sudarshan S. Thapa, Anne Grove Jan 2020

Impaired Purine Homeostasis Plays A Primary Role In Trimethoprim-Mediated Induction Of Virulence Genes In Burkholderia Thailandensis, Sudarshan S. Thapa, Anne Grove

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© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd One of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics against Burkholderia infections is co-trimoxazole, a cocktail of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole. Trimethoprim elicits an upregulation of the mal gene cluster, which encodes proteins involved in synthesis of the cytotoxic polyketide malleilactone; trimethoprim does so by increasing expression of the malR gene, which encodes the activator MalR. We report that B. thailandensis grown on trimethoprim exhibited increased virulence against Caenorhabditis elegans. This enhanced virulence correlated with an increase in expression of the mal gene cluster. Notably, inhibition of xanthine dehydrogenase by addition of allopurinol led to similar …

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Modeling The Effects Of Trait-Mediated Dispersal On Coexistence Of Mutualists, James T. Cronin, Jerome Goddard, Amila Muthunayake, Ratnasingham Shivaji Jan 2020

Modeling The Effects Of Trait-Mediated Dispersal On Coexistence Of Mutualists, James T. Cronin, Jerome Goddard, Amila Muthunayake, Ratnasingham Shivaji

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© 2020 the Author(s), licensee AIMS Press. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) Even though mutualistic interactions are ubiquitous in nature, we are still far from making good predictions about the fate of mutualistic communities under threats such as habitat fragmentation and climate change. Fragmentation often causes declines in abundance of a species due to increased susceptibility to edge effects between remnant habitat patches and lower quality “matrix” surrounding these focal patches. It has been argued that ecological communities are replete with trait-mediated indirect effects, and that these effects …

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Modeling The Effects Of Density Dependent Emigration, Weak Allee Effects, And Matrix Hostility On Patch-Level Population Persistence, James T. Cronin, Nalin Fonseka, Jerome Goddard, Jackson Leonard, Ratnasingham Shivaji Jan 2020

Modeling The Effects Of Density Dependent Emigration, Weak Allee Effects, And Matrix Hostility On Patch-Level Population Persistence, James T. Cronin, Nalin Fonseka, Jerome Goddard, Jackson Leonard, Ratnasingham Shivaji

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© 2020 the Author(s), licensee AIMS Press. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) The relationship between conspecific density and the probability of emigrating from a patch can play an essential role in determining the population-dynamic consequences of an Allee effect. In this paper, we model a population that inside a patch is diffusing and growing according to a weak Allee effect per-capita growth rate, but the emigration probability is dependent on conspecific density. The habitat patch is one-dimensional and is surrounded by a tuneable hostile matrix. We consider five …

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Taxonomic Resolution Affects Host-Parasite Association Model Performance, Tad A. Dallas, Daniel J. Becker Jan 2020

Taxonomic Resolution Affects Host-Parasite Association Model Performance, Tad A. Dallas, Daniel J. Becker

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© 2020 Georg Thieme Verlag. All rights reserved. Identifying the factors that structure host-parasite interactions is fundamental to understand the drivers of species distributions and to predict novel cross-species transmission events. More phylogenetically related host species tend to have more similar parasite associations, but parasite specificity may vary as a function of transmission mode, parasite taxonomy, or life history. Accordingly, analyses that attempt to infer host-parasite associations using combined data on different parasite groups may perform quite differently relative to analyses on each parasite subset. In essence, are more data always better when predicting host-parasite associations, or does parasite taxonomic …

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Behavioral, Morphological, And Ecological Trait Evolution In Two Clades Of New World Sparrows (Aimophila And Peucaea, Passerellidae), Carla Cicero, Nicholas A. Mason, Lauryn Benedict, James D. Rising Jan 2020

Behavioral, Morphological, And Ecological Trait Evolution In Two Clades Of New World Sparrows (Aimophila And Peucaea, Passerellidae), Carla Cicero, Nicholas A. Mason, Lauryn Benedict, James D. Rising

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Copyright 2020 Cicero et al. The New World sparrows (Passerellidae) are a large, diverse group of songbirds that vary in morphology, behavior, and ecology. Thus, they are excellent for studying trait evolution in a phylogenetic framework. We examined lability versus conservatism in morphological and behavioral traits in two related clades of sparrows (Aimophila, Peucaea), and assessed whether habitat has played an important role in trait evolution. We first inferred a multi-locus phylogeny which we used to reconstruct ancestral states, and then quantified phylogenetic signal among morphological and behavioral traits in these clades and in New World sparrows more broadly. Behavioral …

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The Extended Specimen Network: A Strategy To Enhance Us Biodiversity Collections, Promote Research And Education, James Lendemer, Barbara Thiers, Anna K. Monfils, Jennifer Zaspel, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Andrew Bentley, Katherine Levan, John Bates, David Jennings, Dori Contreras, Laura Lagomarsino, Paula Mabee, Linda S. Ford, Robert Guralnick, Robert E. Gropp, Marcy Revelez, Neil Cobb, Katja Seltmann, M. Catherine Aime Jan 2020

The Extended Specimen Network: A Strategy To Enhance Us Biodiversity Collections, Promote Research And Education, James Lendemer, Barbara Thiers, Anna K. Monfils, Jennifer Zaspel, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Andrew Bentley, Katherine Levan, John Bates, David Jennings, Dori Contreras, Laura Lagomarsino, Paula Mabee, Linda S. Ford, Robert Guralnick, Robert E. Gropp, Marcy Revelez, Neil Cobb, Katja Seltmann, M. Catherine Aime

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Improving Natural Product Research Translation: From Source To Clinical Trial, Barbara C. Sorkin, Adam J. Kuszak, Gregory Bloss, Naomi K. Fukagawa, Freddie Ann Hoffman, Mahtab Jafari, Bruce Barrett, Paula N. Brown, Frederic D. Bushman, Steven J. Casper, Floyd H. Chilton, Christopher S. Coffey, Mario G. Ferruzzi, D. Craig Hopp, Mairead Kiely, Daniel Lakens, John B. Macmillan, David O. Meltzer, Marco Pahor, Jeffrey Paul, Kathleen Pritchett-Corning, Sara K. Quinney, Barbara Rehermann, Kenneth D.R. Setchell, Nisha S. Sipes, Jacqueline M. Stephens, D. Lansing Taylor, Hervé Tiriac, Michael A. Walters, Dan Xi, Giovanna Zappalá, Guido F. Pauli Jan 2020

Improving Natural Product Research Translation: From Source To Clinical Trial, Barbara C. Sorkin, Adam J. Kuszak, Gregory Bloss, Naomi K. Fukagawa, Freddie Ann Hoffman, Mahtab Jafari, Bruce Barrett, Paula N. Brown, Frederic D. Bushman, Steven J. Casper, Floyd H. Chilton, Christopher S. Coffey, Mario G. Ferruzzi, D. Craig Hopp, Mairead Kiely, Daniel Lakens, John B. Macmillan, David O. Meltzer, Marco Pahor, Jeffrey Paul, Kathleen Pritchett-Corning, Sara K. Quinney, Barbara Rehermann, Kenneth D.R. Setchell, Nisha S. Sipes, Jacqueline M. Stephens, D. Lansing Taylor, Hervé Tiriac, Michael A. Walters, Dan Xi, Giovanna Zappalá, Guido F. Pauli

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© 2019 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology While great interest in health effects of natural product (NP) including dietary supplements and foods persists, promising preclinical NP research is not consistently translating into actionable clinical trial (CT) outcomes. Generally considered the gold standard for assessing safety and efficacy, CTs, especially phase III CTs, are costly and require rigorous planning to optimize the value of the information obtained. More effective bridging from NP research to CT was the goal of a September, 2018 transdisciplinary workshop. Participants emphasized that replicability and likelihood of successful translation depend on rigor in experimental design, …

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Novel Resistant Starch Type 4 Products Of Different Starch Origins, Production Methods, And Amounts Are Not Equally Fermented When Fed To Sprague-Dawley Rats, Diana B. Coulon, Ryan Page, Anne M. Raggio, Justin Guice, Brain Marx, Vishnupriya Gourineni, Maria L. Stewart, Michael J. Keenan Jan 2020

Novel Resistant Starch Type 4 Products Of Different Starch Origins, Production Methods, And Amounts Are Not Equally Fermented When Fed To Sprague-Dawley Rats, Diana B. Coulon, Ryan Page, Anne M. Raggio, Justin Guice, Brain Marx, Vishnupriya Gourineni, Maria L. Stewart, Michael J. Keenan

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© 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Scope: The possible mechanisms of production of four novel resistant starch type 4 (RS4) products for total cecal fermentation in an in vivo rodent model are evaluated. Methods and results: Forty weanling rats are randomly assigned to five groups (n = 8) for a 3-week study. Starches are the RS type 4 products, as 10% of weight of RS diets (RSA–RSD), and AMIOCA starch (100% amylopectin) comprises 53.6% weight of control (CON) and 43.6% weight of RS diets. The RS products vary by percent purity and origin (potato, corn, tapioca). At …

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The Landscape Of Accessible Chromatin In Bovine Oocytes And Early Embryos, Hao Ming, Jiangwen Sun, Rolando Pasquariello, Lauren Gatenby, Jason Herrick, Ye Yuan, Carlos Pinto, Kenneth R. Bondioli, Rebecca L. Krisher, Zongliang Jiang Jan 2020

The Landscape Of Accessible Chromatin In Bovine Oocytes And Early Embryos, Hao Ming, Jiangwen Sun, Rolando Pasquariello, Lauren Gatenby, Jason Herrick, Ye Yuan, Carlos Pinto, Kenneth R. Bondioli, Rebecca L. Krisher, Zongliang Jiang

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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Chromatin reorganization governs the regulation of gene expression during preimplantation development. However, the landscape of chromatin dynamics in this period has not been explored in bovine. In this study, we constructed a genome-wide map of accessible chromatin in bovine oocytes and early embryos using an improved assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) which revealed unique features of the accessible chromatin during bovine early embryo development. We found that chromatin accessibility is low in oocytes and 2-/4-cell embryos, followed by a significant increase in embryos during …

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Novel Resistant Starch Type 4 Products Of Different Starch Origins, Production Methods, And Amounts Are Not Equally Fermented When Fed To Sprague-Dawley Rats, Diana B. Coulon, Ryan Page, Anne M. Raggio, Justin Guice, Brain Marx, Vishnupriya Gourineni, Maria L. Stewart, Michael J. Keenan Jan 2020

Novel Resistant Starch Type 4 Products Of Different Starch Origins, Production Methods, And Amounts Are Not Equally Fermented When Fed To Sprague-Dawley Rats, Diana B. Coulon, Ryan Page, Anne M. Raggio, Justin Guice, Brain Marx, Vishnupriya Gourineni, Maria L. Stewart, Michael J. Keenan

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© 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Scope: The possible mechanisms of production of four novel resistant starch type 4 (RS4) products for total cecal fermentation in an in vivo rodent model are evaluated. Methods and results: Forty weanling rats are randomly assigned to five groups (n = 8) for a 3-week study. Starches are the RS type 4 products, as 10% of weight of RS diets (RSA–RSD), and AMIOCA starch (100% amylopectin) comprises 53.6% weight of control (CON) and 43.6% weight of RS diets. The RS products vary by percent purity and origin (potato, corn, tapioca). At …

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The Landscape Of Accessible Chromatin In Bovine Oocytes And Early Embryos, Hao Ming, Jiangwen Sun, Rolando Pasquariello, Lauren Gatenby, Jason Herrick, Ye Yuan, Carlos Pinto, Kenneth R. Bondioli, Rebecca L. Krisher, Zongliang Jiang Jan 2020

The Landscape Of Accessible Chromatin In Bovine Oocytes And Early Embryos, Hao Ming, Jiangwen Sun, Rolando Pasquariello, Lauren Gatenby, Jason Herrick, Ye Yuan, Carlos Pinto, Kenneth R. Bondioli, Rebecca L. Krisher, Zongliang Jiang

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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Chromatin reorganization governs the regulation of gene expression during preimplantation development. However, the landscape of chromatin dynamics in this period has not been explored in bovine. In this study, we constructed a genome-wide map of accessible chromatin in bovine oocytes and early embryos using an improved assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) which revealed unique features of the accessible chromatin during bovine early embryo development. We found that chromatin accessibility is low in oocytes and 2-/4-cell embryos, followed by a significant increase in embryos during …

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Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race And American Identity, Andrew Sluyter Jan 2020

Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race And American Identity, Andrew Sluyter

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Summer 2020 Editorial, Andrew Hargroder Jan 2020

Summer 2020 Editorial, Andrew Hargroder

Civil War Book Review

Once again, the Editorial Staff of the Civil War Book Review is honored to feature timely and important Civil War and Reconstruction-era scholarship for our Summer 2020 issue. This issue is shorter than usual, encompassing one feature work and interview, and thirteen book reviews. However, the gravity of scholarship and its relevance to our present crisis far exceed the lack of quantity. The content of this issue addresses a wide range of themes in Civil War scholarship. Several books survey the invaluable roles and experiences of Native peoples, immigrants, POWs, and women in shaping the war. Another prominent subject is …

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Separate: The Story Of Plessy V. Ferguson, And America’S Journey From Slavery To Segregation, Daniel W. Crofts Jan 2020

Separate: The Story Of Plessy V. Ferguson, And America’S Journey From Slavery To Segregation, Daniel W. Crofts

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At first glance, Separate appears to offer a history of the Supreme Court’s infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, which validated for many decades to come the doctrine of “separate but equal.” The final hundred-plus pages of this elegantly-written volume do indeed bring Plessy into full focus. But Steve Luxenberg also addresses an even more weighty topic—how and why a nation that rewrote its Constitution to embrace the principle of equality defaulted on that commitment. The shameful story that unfolds here does much to explain the impasse reached by the United States in the tension-filled summer of 2020.

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German Americans On The Middle Border: From Antislavery To Reconstruction, 1830 ̶ 1877, David T. Dixon Jan 2020

German Americans On The Middle Border: From Antislavery To Reconstruction, 1830 ̶ 1877, David T. Dixon

Civil War Book Review

Following in a tradition of regional studies of nineteenth century German Americans from historians like Kathleen Niels Conzen, Stanley Nadel, and Walter Kamphoefner comes this ambitious effort from a new scholar in the field. Zachary Garrison counts Lee Ann Whites and Christopher Phillips among his mentors, so it is no surprise that his first book is well organized, convincingly argued, and clearly written.

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Living By Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, And Feeling Of Captivity In Civil War Prisons, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. Jan 2020

Living By Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, And Feeling Of Captivity In Civil War Prisons, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.

Civil War Book Review

Contrary to popular opinion, Civil War battles were not always formal military engagements or guerilla skirmishes between Confederate and U.S. forces. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war (POWs) knew that their battles were starkly different from armed conflicts. POWs understood that fights in captivity occurred against their enemies, themselves, elements, animals, insects, and diseases. We know an extensive amount of information about infamous prison camps, including Andersonville and Elmira. Recent scholarship has brought to light the complexity of pardoning and surrendering processes and the "black flag" policy's racial politics. However, the day-to-day lived experiences of imprisoned soldiers and their …

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The Worst Passions Of Human Nature: White Supremacy In The Civil War North, Andrew Turner Jan 2020

The Worst Passions Of Human Nature: White Supremacy In The Civil War North, Andrew Turner

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The New York City riots of July 1863 exhibited the potential of the violent tension that ran in a steady stream throughout the Northern states during the middle of the Civil War. As white New Yorkers rioted to oppose the Enrollment Act of 1863 imposed by the United States government, they quickly turned their ire toward African Americans, with deeply seated white supremacy and racially motivated fear prompting their deadly reprisals against innocent black New Yorkers. Sadly, as illustrated by Paul Escott’s needed new book, The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North, …

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Newest Born Of Nations: European Nationalist Movements And The Making Of The Confederacy, William Nester Jan 2020

Newest Born Of Nations: European Nationalist Movements And The Making Of The Confederacy, William Nester

Civil War Book Review

If there is still a relatively under-researched dimension of America’s Civil War, it is its relationship with foreign countries. In her book Newest Born of Nations, Ann Tucker, an assistant professor of History at the University of North Georgia, explores how the revolutions that erupted across Europe in 1848 later inspired southern political leaders and newspapers editors to either justify or condemn the Confederate rebellion. Europe’s 1848 revolts influenced three groups of southerners. Liberal secessionists believed in white civil rights and democracy. Conservative secessionists were nationalists first who were leery of too much democracy. Unionists wanted to remain Americans …

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Liberty And Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, And The American Civil War, William Nester Jan 2020

Liberty And Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, And The American Civil War, William Nester

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Among the Civil War subfields that remain relatively underexplored is trans-Atlantic influences. Niels Eichhorn, an assistant professor at Middle Georgia State University, makes a fine contribution to that subfield with his book Liberty and Slavery, wherein he explores the relationship between southern secessionism and European separatism. He compares the separatist movements against brutal subjection by Poles from Russia, Irish Catholics from Britain, Hungarians from Austria, Germans from Denmark in 1830 or 1848 with the southern slave state secession to form the Confederate States of America in 1861

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The Presidents Vs. The Press: The Endless Battle Between The White House And The Media From The Founding Fathers To Fake News, Meg Groeling Jan 2020

The Presidents Vs. The Press: The Endless Battle Between The White House And The Media From The Founding Fathers To Fake News, Meg Groeling

Civil War Book Review

Harold Holzer's newest offering, The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media from the Founding Fathers to Fake News, is a profoundly timely work. Proclaimed the "dean" of Lincoln historians, it is interesting to learn that author Harold Holzer was not, in fact, born a Lincoln historian. He began his post-college life as a reporter for a weekly newspaper, the Manhattan Tribune. After what turned out to be a brief foray into print journalism, Holzer became a political press secretary for Bella Abzug, and then for Mario Cuomo's mayoral election in …

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The Civil War On The Rio Grande, 1846-1876, Armando Alonzo Jan 2020

The Civil War On The Rio Grande, 1846-1876, Armando Alonzo

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This is an unconventional book on a sub-region of Texas, known today as the Lower Rio Grande Valley. While the main focus of the bulk of the essays are on social, economic, and political affairs that pertain to the standard Civil War period, the editors attempt, with some success, to enlarge the story using the idea that the region’s history should be viewed in the context of the consolidation of the United States as its army and citizens marched South and West. The authors address key themes from the Mexican American War to the 1870s. Strictly speaking, three essays address …

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Death At The Edges Of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, And The Making Of An American Nation, 1863-1921, W. Fitzhugh Brundage Jan 2020

Death At The Edges Of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, And The Making Of An American Nation, 1863-1921, W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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Shannon Bontrager has written an intricate, impressive book about mourning, memory, and national identity. Some facets of his story are familiar, but he extends the sweep of his analysis in fresh and provocative directions, enlarging it, as the title suggests, to the edges of the American empire. At the core of the book is the evolution of the commemoration of the fallen citizen soldier from the advent of mass casualties during the American Civil War through the carnage of World War One. Keen to honor dead soldiers who had been deprived of the comforts of death within the bosom of …

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Civil War Monuments And The Militarization Of America, Gaines M. Foster Jan 2020

Civil War Monuments And The Militarization Of America, Gaines M. Foster

Civil War Book Review

“The Civil War monuments installed by communities across the North and South from the 1860s into the 1930s” (1), Thomas J. Brown argues in his fascinating new book, served as “exemplars of a robust, disciplined citizenry” (2). They symbolized the “soldier’s replacement of the farmer as the paradigmatic American citizen,” “created a social metaphor conducive to Gilded Age reinforcement of class and racial hierarchy” (6), and thereby “transformed the civil landscape and the place of the military in national life “(1)...

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Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About The Civil War, Daniel Sunshine Jan 2020

Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About The Civil War, Daniel Sunshine

Civil War Book Review

Cody Marrs’ newest book is a remarkably concise and modern introduction to Civil War memory. Although studies of memory inevitably overlap with historiography, you will find no dry discussions of the Dunning School or Eugene Genovese in Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War. Instead, just four elegant chapters each tackle a major interpretation of the American Civil War. It is hard to imagine a better introduction to the topic for an undergraduate or an interested member of the public. Academic historians will learn nothing radically new in Marrs’ book—but will nevertheless enjoy his …

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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot To Kill America’S 16th President—And Why It Failed, Allen C. Guelzo Jan 2020

The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot To Kill America’S 16th President—And Why It Failed, Allen C. Guelzo

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That Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to fall to the hand of a political assassin is one of the simple facts that almost everyone can recognize. That the blow which killed him in 1865 was not the first attempt on his life is less well known. Even as Lincoln was en route to Washington in February, 1861, he was solemnly briefed in Philadelphia by the pioneering Chicago detective, Allan Pinkerton, that “certain parties” in Baltimore had arranged an ambush there to murder him “whilst passing through Baltimore.” The report gained more traction with Lincoln when Pinkerton was followed …

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She Came To Slay: The Life And Times Of Harriet Tubman, Hilary N. Green Jan 2020

She Came To Slay: The Life And Times Of Harriet Tubman, Hilary N. Green

Civil War Book Review

For an extraordinary historical figure, Dunbar offers an accessible and multidimensional biography of Harriet Tubman Ross and renders her as a complex “a true boss lady, a superhero, and a warrior” in She Came to Slay (xii).Organized chronologically, Dunbar opens with a discussion of Tubman’s grandmother Modesty who “planted a seed of resilience in her progeny that would blossom even in her absence (6-7).” Acknowledging the scant archival record, Dunbar establishes the familial roots contributing to Tubman’s fortitude and character. Although offering freedom to her daughters and granddaughter in his will, Pattison’s daughter and her husband, however, ignored this …

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Every Drop Of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration Of Abraham Lincoln, Frank J. Williams Jan 2020

Every Drop Of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration Of Abraham Lincoln, Frank J. Williams

Civil War Book Review

After President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Union officer Charles Francis Adams, Jr. wrote his father, the American Minister to England, “That rail-splitting lawyer is one of the wonders of the day. Once at Gettysburg and now again on a greater occasion he has shown a capacity for rising to the demands of the hour which we should not expect from orators or men of the schools. This inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and directness as being for all time the historical keynote of this war....” Edward Achorn’s new book relives the Second Inauguration and its context. The …

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