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The Monetary Crisis Of The Fall Of New Orleans, Hans Rasmussen Jan 2022

The Monetary Crisis Of The Fall Of New Orleans, Hans Rasmussen

Civil War Book Review

Hans Rasmussen writes about two primary sources housed in LSU’s special collections that show how New Orleanians and U.S. soldiers reacted to the devaluation of Confederate money in occupied New Orleans. H. A. Snyder, a New Orleans grocer, chronicled the city’s occupation in his diary (MSS 2198). His entries reveal how his fellow New Orleanians tried to adjust to a world in which their money was rendered useless after Major General Benjamin Butler outlawed the use of Confederate money and bonds in May of 1862. Luther M. Fairbank, a private in Company D of the 31st Massachusetts Infantry wrote …

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Artemus Ward: His Works, Complete, Including A Biography, Meg Groeling Jan 2022

Artemus Ward: His Works, Complete, Including A Biography, Meg Groeling

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Meg Groeling analyzes nineteenth-century American humor by examining the musings of Artemus Ward—alternate persona to Charles Farrar Browne—and his fans’ reactions to his work, including that of Abraham Lincoln. Browne’s Ward was an “illiterate rube with ‘Yankee’ common sense,” Groeling explains. In short order, his schtick evolved from newspaper essays to an internationally touring live-action show, complete with purposefully failing props and special effects. Groeling insists it is important for us to understand nineteenth-century-Americans’ humor because humor can tell us a lot about the folks of the Civil War era, “And those folks loved Artemus Ward.”

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The Souls Of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures Of Enslaved Women In The Lower South, Emily Clark Jan 2022

The Souls Of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures Of Enslaved Women In The Lower South, Emily Clark

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Reviewer Emily Suzanne Clark writes that Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh’s The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South “is one of the most important books in African American religious history of the past decade.” Clark concludes that “By placing women at the center,” Oghoghomeh “shifts the field’s focus away from the pulpit as a means of empowerment.”

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The Fires Of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, And The 1844 Riots Over The Soul Of A Nation, Luke Ritter Jan 2022

The Fires Of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, And The 1844 Riots Over The Soul Of A Nation, Luke Ritter

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Zachary M. Schrag's book combines biographies of rioters and their victims, and the socio-cultural context in which the riots developed. Though Shcrag offers analysis of the riots, he favors “detail and description,” which makes the book “walloping fun” to read, Ritter concludes.

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West Of Slavery: The Southern Dream Of A Transcontinental Empire, Amy S. Greenberg Jan 2022

West Of Slavery: The Southern Dream Of A Transcontinental Empire, Amy S. Greenberg

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Reviewer Amy S. Greenberg writes that Kevin Waite’s West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire is a “marvelous study” that “makes a convincing case for the transcontinental aspirations and reach of southern slaveholders” in the Civil War era. Waite examines southern expansionists’ desires for expansion—territorial and economic—their efforts toward their goals, the beliefs that motivated them, and how adherence to those beliefs influenced southerners’ reactions to Reconstruction. The book will appeal to a wide audience, and “will make an excellent addition to undergraduate syllabi” relating to antebellum expansion, Greenberg believes.

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Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War In Indian Country, Sarah Elliott Jan 2022

Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War In Indian Country, Sarah Elliott

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Reviewer Sarah Elliott writes that Fay A. Yarbough’s Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country, excels in demonstrating that Choctaws’ decision to align with the Confederacy was based on self-interests. Indeed, Yarbough shows that “increasingly close interaction with white Americans shifted Choctaw culture” in the antebellum era, so that by the eve of the Civil War, they were, in many ways, “’more ‘southern’” than many white southerners. Elliott finishes by praising Yarbough’s work as an “immensely valuable and illuminating” work.

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Rites Of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, And Campaigns In The American Civil War., Joseph Beilein Jr. Jan 2022

Rites Of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, And Campaigns In The American Civil War., Joseph Beilein Jr.

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Joseph Beilein Jr. reviewed Lorien Foote’s Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War, and came away from reading it convinced it is a “well-executed contribution to Civil War history.” Foote shows that both U.S. and Confederate leaders tried to wage a war based on commonly held concepts of civilization and honor. Still, both sides often diverted from their civilized, honor-bound scheme, and behaved in decidedly uncivilized and dishonorable ways. Beilein writes that “This is a great book” that will appeal to a diverse audience.

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Ends Of War: The Unfinished Fight Of Lee’S Army After Appomattox, Andrew F. Lang Jan 2022

Ends Of War: The Unfinished Fight Of Lee’S Army After Appomattox, Andrew F. Lang

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Reviewer Andrew F. Lang writes that Caroline E. Janney’s book reveals that “Ending wars are just as difficult, contingent, and uncertain as waging wars.” Janney accomplishes this by examining freedpeoples’ diverse reactions to emancipation, how Confederates coped with defeat, and the legal, moral, and political forces that inspired Grant’s amnesty policy as well as what that policy meant for reconciliation. Lang concludes that “Janney has performed a superb task in helping us understand our greatest war and the workings of the human condition.”

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The Generals’ Civil War, What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, Wesley Moody Jan 2022

The Generals’ Civil War, What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, Wesley Moody

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Author, Stephen Cushman’s expert investigation of Civil War generals’ memoirs as literary historical artifacts relieved reviewer Wesley Moody of his “great reserve.” Cushman’s ability to explain the generals’ memoirs’ varying popularities in the past and present, his examination of their literary allusions, and his examination of the memoirs’ relationship to the turn-of-the-century publishing business makes this book “a considerable contribution to the field of Civil War history,” in Moody’s estimation.

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Lincoln Comes To Gettysburg: The Creation Of The Soldiers’ National Cemetery And Lincoln’S Gettysburg Address, Kent Gramm Jan 2022

Lincoln Comes To Gettysburg: The Creation Of The Soldiers’ National Cemetery And Lincoln’S Gettysburg Address, Kent Gramm

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Reviewer Kent Gramm writes that the husband-and-wife duo, Bradley M. and Linda I. Gotffried “have produced an outstanding book” in Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Part of the book’s success lies in its comprehensive nature, with examinations of the impulse to create a cemetery, its “location and design,” the transportation of the fallen soldiers’ bodies, and an analysis of Lincoln’s address. Along the way, the authors dispense with long-held myths, especially the stubbornly resilient belief that Lincoln wrote the address on his journey to Gettysburg.

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Unpublished Sources: What Is In The Attic, Anyway?, Meg Groeling Jan 2022

Unpublished Sources: What Is In The Attic, Anyway?, Meg Groeling

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Feature Essayist Meg Groeling provides an explanation of unpublished sources by using ancestral documents, which reveal more than they may on the surface.

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The Siege Of Vicksburg: Climax Of The Campaign To Open The Mississippi River, May 23 – July 4, 1863, Thomas F. Army Jan 2022

The Siege Of Vicksburg: Climax Of The Campaign To Open The Mississippi River, May 23 – July 4, 1863, Thomas F. Army

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Reviewer Thomas F. Army writes that in The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23 – July 4, 1863, author Timothy B. Smith followed John Keegan’s dictate that military historians should produce analysis that goes beyond “colored maps,” Though Smith dedicates considerable attention to the tactical and strategic elements of the siege, he balances his technical analysis with an examination of the human suffering the siege begat. Army found many strengths in Smith’s work, including his emphasis that contingency mattered—Vicksburg’s fall was not inevitable. Smith’s The Siege of Vicksburg “is an important …

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The Spoils Of The Turf, Hans Rasmussen Jan 2022

The Spoils Of The Turf, Hans Rasmussen

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Feature Essayist Hans Rasmussen uses three manuscript collections housed at LSU to examine the link between slavery and high-stakes horse racing in the nineteenth century.

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The Assault On Elisha Green: Race And Religion In A Kentucky Community, Michael W. Fitzgerald Jan 2022

The Assault On Elisha Green: Race And Religion In A Kentucky Community, Michael W. Fitzgerald

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Randolph Paul Runyon recounts an episode of racial justice in Reconstruction-era Kentucky in The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community. Reviewer Michael W. Fitzgerald writes that Runyon “engagingly” describes a “vivid episode” in which the Black Baptist Minister Elisha Green successfully sought redress from the courts after two white Southern Methodist ministers forcibly removed the recently disabled Green from his seat in a first-class train car. Green viewed his paltry reward of fifteen dollars as a “highlight of his life.” Fitzgerald concludes that Runyon “knows how to tell a story.”

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The Vibrancy Of Civil War Era Studies, Jeffery Hardin Hobson Jan 2022

The Vibrancy Of Civil War Era Studies, Jeffery Hardin Hobson

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The feature essays and books reviewed in this issue cover a range of topics: engagement with unpublished historical documents; the relationship between humans and animals and contagions in the Civil War era; war finance; Native American policies; crony capitalism and “immunocapitalism”; free people of color and their antiracist activism in regional, national, and transnational contexts; nationalism(s) and religion; devotees to democracy; public mourning; and stubbornly committed educators. In short, this issue, like so many previous ones, reflects the vibrancy and dynamism of Civil War-era studies.

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Lincoln And Native Americans, Scott W. Berg Jan 2022

Lincoln And Native Americans, Scott W. Berg

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Michael S. Green provides a "parallel history or history by proximity" that investigates Lincoln’s biography, including his pre-presidential life and family, and nineteenth-century Native American history “as they wind along side by side, sometimes coming within sight of one another but rarely mixing waters."

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Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, And The Political Economy Of Plunder In North America, Eliot Fackler Jan 2022

Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, And The Political Economy Of Plunder In North America, Eliot Fackler

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Michael John Witgen "concludes that the geographical expansion of the United States, especially in the northern Great Lakes homelands of the Anishinaabeg, depended not so much on military violence or even the immediate physical removal of Indigenous peoples. Rather, conquest was facilitated by a ‘political economy of plunder’ in which a coercive and duplicitous treaty process combined with the debt claims made by Indian agents, traders, and merchants to systematically separate Native nations from their land and annuity payments”

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Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism From Gold Rush To Convict Labor, 1829 - 1894, Michael Frawley Jan 2022

Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism From Gold Rush To Convict Labor, 1829 - 1894, Michael Frawley

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Kenneth H. Wheeler "shows in microcosm the struggles that industrialists faced in the South, navigating a slave society, and bending it to modern ends and the development of the networks so important to the expansion of interconnected business enterprises in the intersection between the industrial and political worlds”

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Ways And Means: Lincoln And His Cabinet And The Financing Of The Civil War, Frank J. Williams Jan 2022

Ways And Means: Lincoln And His Cabinet And The Financing Of The Civil War, Frank J. Williams

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Roger Lowenstein explores how the Lincoln administration employed "economic innovations" to fund the Civil War, and manages to do so "in a clear and enjoyable manner avoiding what could potentially become a mind-numbing summary of financial data."

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Songs Of Slavery And Emancipation, Catherine V. Bateson Jan 2022

Songs Of Slavery And Emancipation, Catherine V. Bateson

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In this nontraditional history book, Mat Callahan explores fifteen songs about slavery and fifteen songs about abolition as part of a larger project.

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Animal Histories Of The Civil War, Darcy Ingram Jan 2022

Animal Histories Of The Civil War, Darcy Ingram

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Earl J. Hess et al. teach readers about “camels imported in the South for transportation . . . pigs’ multifaceted relationship to wartime economics and politics . . . wildlife in varied forms and contexts” as well as “animals in contexts that might be considered broadly as entertainment," and fill "'a gaping hole in the Civil War literature concerning animals'" along the way.

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Borderland Blacks: Two Cities In The Niagara Region During The Final Decades Of Slavery, Jennifer J. Thompson Burns Jan 2022

Borderland Blacks: Two Cities In The Niagara Region During The Final Decades Of Slavery, Jennifer J. Thompson Burns

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dann J. Broyld offers a “pivotal new understanding of the geopolitics and the confluences of the Underground Railroad and Black mobility, identity, and abolitionism on both sides of the American-Canadian border in Western New York."

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Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People Of Color In The South, Evelyn L. Wilson Jan 2022

Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People Of Color In The South, Evelyn L. Wilson

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Warren Milteer Jr. traces the trajectory of free people of colors' experience from the colonial era into the Civil War era, during which "'white supremacists and proslavery radicals'" circumscribed free people of colors' rights.

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The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers And The Fight For Racial Justice, John David Smith Jan 2022

The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers And The Fight For Racial Justice, John David Smith

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In this "well researched, cogently written, and original longitudinal social history of a sampling of freeborn African American families in Philadelphia from 1850 until the 1920s" Holy A. Pinheiro Jr. examines the wartime experiences of Black soldiers in the Union Army and their families' struggles on the homefront, and extends his analysis into the Reconstruction era.

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True Blue: White Unionists In The Deep South During The Civil War And Reconstruction, Daniel W. Crofts Jan 2022

True Blue: White Unionists In The Deep South During The Civil War And Reconstruction, Daniel W. Crofts

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“Clayton Butler has breathed life into a phenomenon”—a “’tiny minority’” of white Unionists who fought to preserve the United States alongside African Americans, despite being labeled “traitors or Tories” by their white Confederate counterparts. Butler shows, however, that Reconstruction surpassed the limits of their willingness to cross racial lines.

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Song Of Ourselves: Walt Whitman And The Fight For Democracy And Whitman In Washington: Becoming The National Poet In The Federal City, Stephen John Mack Jan 2022

Song Of Ourselves: Walt Whitman And The Fight For Democracy And Whitman In Washington: Becoming The National Poet In The Federal City, Stephen John Mack

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Two books with two different audiences, Mark Edmundson's Songs of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy and Kenneth M. Price's Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City look at Whitman's poetry in relationship to democracy in the nineteenth century.

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Young America: The Transformation Of Nationalism Before The Civil War, Susan-Mary Grant Jan 2022

Young America: The Transformation Of Nationalism Before The Civil War, Susan-Mary Grant

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Mark Power Smith examines how mid-nineteenth-century European liberal nationalist movements affected United States’ nationalism(s), especially as configured by the Young America bloc of the Democratic Party. Smith finds that Europeans' embrace of "'more interventionist forms of liberalism,' such as socialism, or abolitionism, 'made popular resistance to interventionism a conservative, rather than radical force.'"

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Spectacle Of Grief: Public Funerals And Memory In The Civil War Era, Meg Groeling Jan 2022

Spectacle Of Grief: Public Funerals And Memory In The Civil War Era, Meg Groeling

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Sarah J. Purcell shows how public funerals and grieving of prominent figures of the Civil War era reflected nineteenth-century Americans' attitudes toward their nation, its future, and its tumultuous past.

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Catholic Confederates: Faith And Duty In The Civil War South, David T. Gleeson Jan 2022

Catholic Confederates: Faith And Duty In The Civil War South, David T. Gleeson

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Grajan Kraszewski developed the theory of "Confederatization" to understand how lay Catholics and clergy—bishops, priests, nuns—became invested in the Confederacy, even becoming "Confederate heroes."

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Persistence Through Peril: Episodes Of College Life And Academic Endurance In The Civil War South, Timothy J. Williams Jan 2022

Persistence Through Peril: Episodes Of College Life And Academic Endurance In The Civil War South, Timothy J. Williams

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Editors Eric R. Platt and Holly A. Foster compiled a series of essays about southern institutions of higher education's disruptions and persistence in the face of war that resonate in today's COVID disrupted world of higher education.

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