Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples

Review of: Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples, by Roger L. Nichol

The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina

The Last Battleground consists of forty-three chapters adopted from essays originally published over fifty installments in Our State: Celebrating North Carolina, a popular magazine, during the four-year sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Each chapter represents a self-contained story of some aspect of the war involving North Carolina, with an eye toward emphasizing the intensely personal nature of the terrible conflict. As Gerard explains of his original goals (p. ix), “The stories would not be sweeping accounts of regimental maneuvers in battle but personal tales of people making the hardest choices of their lives.” In so doing, the author captures the extraordinary diversity of the war’s experiences, with the focus of individual chapters ranging from the famous, such as Confederate general and state Governor Zebulon Baird Vance, a former Unionist, to lesser-known figures like Nancy Leigh Pierson Bennitt, whose two sons died in the war and whose modest parlor hosted the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston to William T. Sherman in May 1865

The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi

Review of: "The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat From the Appalachians to the Mississippi," a part of "The Littlefield History of the Civil War Era," by Earl J. Hess

General Jo Shelby\u27s March.

Riding with General Jo Shelby Joseph Orville (Jo) Shelby (1830-1897) surely lived one of the most fascinating lives of anyone of his generation. A prosperous merchant and hemp farmer in western Missouri, he joined the border wars of Kansas after Jayhawkers burned down his sawmill, but h...

Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War

Review of: "Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War," by Kristopher A. Teters

Evolution Systems of Measures for Non-autonomous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes with L\'evy noise

We examine the question of existence and uniqueness of evolution systems of measures for non-autonomous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-type processes with jumps. In particular, we give examples where we explicitly compute the densities of such families of measures

Effects of interdecadal climate variability on the oceanic ecosystems of the northeast Pacific Ocean [abstract]

EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT): It is increasingly apparent that a major reorganization of the Northeast Pacific biota transpired following a climatic "regime shift" in the mid-1970s. In this paper, we characterize the effects of interdecadal climate forcing on the oceanic ecosystems of the northeastern Pacific Ocean