Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we feature Megan L. Bever to talk about her new book, At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War, published by the University of North Carolina Press in September 2022.
Dan's opening example made me think (once again) of the different perspectives one brings if one approaches Civil War-era documents with training in other historical fields. Recent years have seen the emergence, for example, of “girlhood studies” and especially of “Black girlhood” in ways that deeply inform my project. Scholarship on both free Black childhood in the nineteenth-century US and enslaved Black childhood in the nineteenth-century are deeply important to my interpretation of a range of documents.
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we continue our conversation with John Patrick Daly to talk about his new book, The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction, published by the University of Georgia Press in June 2022.
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Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we feature John Patrick Daly to talk about his new book, The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction, published by the University of Georgia Press in June 2022.
John Patrick Daly is associate professor of history at SUNY Brockport. He also published When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War.
"We Must Not Be Enemies"
Faces with a nation on the verge of civil war, Abraham Lincoln used his first inaugural address as a last-ditch effort to avert bloodshed.
By Glenn W. LaFantasie
The Perils of Nursing
A look at the brief yet consequential hospital service of Louisa May Alcott
By Jeff Wieand
Smoking War
The allure and significance of tobacco use among Civil War soldiers
By Ben Roy
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The Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) and the Abraham Lincoln Institute (ALI) invite nominations and submissions for the 2023 Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize, which includes a $1000 honorarium.
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we continue our conversation with Stephen Berry to talk about his new book, Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It, published by the University of North Carolina Press in May 2022.
