Anne E. Marshall. Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xiii + 233 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3436-7.
Reviewed by Chris T. O'Brien (Millersville University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2014) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle
John Y. Simon. The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War. Edited by Glenn W. LaFantasie. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. xiii + 311 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-3444-4.
Reviewed by L. Bao Bui (University of Illinois) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
The Union Forever
Kimberly Harrison. The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. xviii + 242 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3257-1.
Reviewed by Sheila Phipps (Appalachian State University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Southern Women's Rhetoric
G. W. Nichols. A Soldier's Story of His Regiment (61st Georgia) and Incidentally of the Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. Introduction by Keith S. Bohannon. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. 224 pp. $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8173-5646-0; ISBN 978-0-8173-8523-1.
David G. Smith. On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. xiv + 324 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-4032-6.
Reviewed by Gordon S. Barker (Bishop's University) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Race and Freedom on Pennsylvania’s Borderland, 1820 through Reconstruction
Steven J. Ramold. Across the Divide: Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front. New York: New York University Press, 2013. ix + 223 pp. $49.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-2919-9.
Reviewed by Christopher Ruehlen (University of Florida) Published on H-CivWar (December, 2013) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Unexpected Conflict in the Civil War North
Christian McWhirter. Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. viii + 321 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3550-0.
Reviewed by Frances Clarke (University of Sydney) Published on H-CivWar (December, 2013) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
The Musical War
John C. Rodrigue. Lincoln and Reconstruction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. x + 163 pp. $19.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3253-3.
Reviewed by Michael Smith Published on H-CivWar (October, 2013) Commissioned by Christopher Childers
Reconstruction During (Not After) the Civil War
Steven Lubet. John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. x + 325 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-18049-7.John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, eds. The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. iix + 570 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04885-0.
Mark Voss-Hubbard, ed. Illinois's War: The Civil War in Documents. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. xviii + 244 pp. $18.65 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-2010-2.
Reviewed by Sally Heinzel (University of Illinois) Published on H-CivWar (October, 2013) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
From Home Front to Front Line: Illinois and the Civil War
Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon. Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart. The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii + 119 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-0895-8; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-0896-5.Paul Finkelman, Donald R. Kennon. Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. vi + 231 pp.
Coleman Hutchison. Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. 277 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-3731-9; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-4244-3.Paul Quigley. Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865.
James Alan Marten. Children and Youth during the Civil War Era. New York: New York University Press, 2012. xii + 270 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-9607-8; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-9608-5.
Reviewed by Lisa Zevorich (Ohio State University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2013) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Michael Burlingame. Lincoln and the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. 165 pp. $19.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3053-9.Mark E. Neely. Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 400 pp.
John Ashworth. The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 217 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-02408-3; $22.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-63923-2.Gary W. Gallagher, Rachel A. Shelden, eds. A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 272 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3282-8.
