Conversations in Racial and Ethnic Studies during the Civil War Era
Bever, Megan L.. At War With King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War. Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 250 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469669533.$27.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469669540.
Professor Kidada E. Williams will present a free online webinar, ‘I Don’t Know If I’ll Ever Be Over It’: African Americans in the War against Reconstruction’ on April 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 26 February to 4 March. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-CivWar. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 4 March to 11 March. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-CivWar. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we chat with Mark R. Cheathem about his new book Who Is James K. Polk? The Presidential Election of 1844, published by Kansas State University Press in October 2023.
Mark R. Cheathem is professor of history and project director of the Papers of Martin Van Buren at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He is the author of Andrew Jackson, Southerner and The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson.
Goldman, Stephen A.. One More War to Fight: Union Veterans' Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 438 pp. $28.50 (e-book), ISBN 9781538161562.$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781538161555.
Reviewed by
Patrick Browne (Boston University)
Published on
H-CivWar (March, 2024)
Commissioned by
G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
The 59th Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference will be held 25-28 September 2024 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Society for Military History sponsors a full slate of sessions at the NGPHC, and proposals for all types of military history papers are welcomed. Both individual proposals and session proposals are encouraged. For individuals, send a cv and short one-page proposal. For sessions, send a one-page session proposal, a short one-page proposal for each paper, and short cvs for all participants. Deadline for proposals is 17 May 2024.
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