Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South

A Fresh Look at the Confederate Search for Distinctiveness H.L. Mencken once famously derided the South as the Sahara of the Bozart, claiming that the region lacked significant cultural, literary, or intellectual assets. Henry Adams concurred, noting that the Southerner had no mind. ...

Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South After the Civil War

An Exploration of the Maze of Redemption Carole Emberton opens her new book on Reconstruction with the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen in 2005 for the murder of civil rights activists in 1964. Murdered black activist James Chaney’s younger brother Ben said that the conviction would not br...

Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia

The Law and Slavery in Richmond In Slavery on Trial, James Campbell explores how race, class, gender, and above all, status were contested in the criminal justice system in Richmond, Virginia. Campbell, a lecturer in American history at the University of Leicester, argues agains...

Suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina

This dissertation explores shifting social mores in North Carolina over the course of the nineteenth century. It employs suicide, divorce, and debt as specific lenses through which to explore these shifts. The Civil War forced a fundamental reinterpretation of moral sentiments towards these practices, and the nature of this reinterpretation was predicated on race. White North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt during the antebellum period. The Civil War undermined these entrenched attitudes, forcing them to reinterpret suicide, divorce, and debt in a new social, cultural, and economic context. Antebellum black North Carolinians, on the other hand, held very different attitudes towards suicide, divorce, and debt, shaped by slavery’s injustices. The Civil War and emancipation created the opportunity for them to create new moral constructs. This dissertation seeks to explicate how these changing moral sentiments reflect broader patterns of thought and action. For whites, this transformation entailed a shift from a world in which individuals were tightly bound to their local community to one in which they were increasingly untethered from social expectations. For black North Carolinians, however, these trends headed in the opposite direction, as emancipation laid the groundwork for new bonds of community. Drawing upon a robust and diverse body of sources, including insane asylum records, divorce petitions, bankruptcy filings, diaries, and personal correspondence, this study describes a society turned upside down as a consequence of a devastating war

Ohio History 2012

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/10130/OH-v119-thumb.jpgOHIO HISTORY Contents for Volume 119, 2012 Streetcar Politics and Reform Government in Cleveland, 1880–1909 Robert Bionaz ...... 5 Cleveland’s Iron Ore Merchants and the Lake Superior Iron Ore Trade, 1855–1900 Terry S. Reynolds ...... 30 The Role of the Business Press in the Commercial Life of Cincinnati, 1831–1912 Bradford W. Scharlott ...... 61 The Flexibility of Freedom: Slavery and Servitude in Early Ohio James J. Gigantino II ......&nbsp;89 “Industry, Enterprize and Energy”: Caleb Atwater and the Meaning of Ohio Shawn Selby ...... 101 &nbsp; Book Reviews 119 </ul