A Savage War and the Foundations of American Military Power Iis nearly a truism that the American Civil War attracts more writers and readers than any event in United States history. Amateur historians, professional scholars, veterans, social commentators, and journalists have produced some 50,0...
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Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War By Elizabeth R. Varon. College Edition. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Maps, acknowledgments, timeline, notes, suggested readings, glossary, index. Pp. xxv, 531. 29.99paper.ISBN:978−0−19−933539−8.)Hurtin’Words:DebatingFamilyProblemsintheTwentieth−CenturySouth.ByTedOwnby.(ChapelHill:TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2018.Acknowledgements,illustrations,notes,index.Pp.xiv,334.90 cloth, 29.95paper,22.99 electronic. ISBN: 978-1-46964-700-5.)
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom & Equality in the Twilight of Slavery. By Joseph P. Reidy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Acknowledgements, illustrations, map, notes, index. Pp. 1, 506. 39.95Hardcover,29.99 E-Book. ISBN: 978-1-4696-4836-1.)
Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America. By Thomas J. Brown. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 384 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 87 halftones, notes, bibl., index, Paper, 29.97,978−1−4696−5374−7.)ReconstructionPoliticsinaDeepSouthState:Alabama,1865–1874.ByWilliamWarrenRogers,Jr.(Tuscaloosa:UniversityofAlabamaPress,2021.Acknowledgments,illustrations,notes,bibliography.Pp.1,439.54.95 cloth. ISBN: 978-0817320744.)
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860. By S. Charles Bolton. (Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2019. Acknowledgements, appendix, notes, index. Pp. x, 302. 34.95cloth.ISBN:978−1−68226−009−9.)BernardodeGaˊlvez:SpanishHerooftheAmericanRevolution.ByGonzaloM.QuinteroSaravia.(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2018.Acknowledgements,appendix,notes,bibliography,index.Pp.xi,602,38.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781469640792.
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