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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century. By Tera W. Hunter. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. 404 pp. 29.95,cloth.ISBN:9780674045712.)DeltaEpiphany:RobertF.KennedyinMississippi.ByEllenB.Meacham.(Jackson:UniversityPressofMississippi,2018.Acknowledgements,sourcenotes,bibliography,aboutthephotographers,index,Pp.xi,293.28 cloth. ISBN 9781496817457.)
Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till. By Elliott J. Gorn. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Acknowledgements, source notes, bibliography, index, Pp. xi, 400. 27.95hardcover.ISBN:9780199335122.)TheOrdealoftheReunion:ANewHistoryofReconstruction.ByMarkWahlgrenSummers.(ChapelHill:TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2014.528pp.,21halftones,notes,bibl.,index.40.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-1-4696-1757-2.)
Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War. By Catherine Clinton. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. 48.00hardback.ISBN:978807164570.)FrontiersofScience:ImperialismandNaturalKnowledgeintheGulfSouthBorderlands,1500−1850.ByCameronB.Strang.(ChapelHill,NC:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2018.Acknowledgements,illustrations,index.Pp.vii,357.39.95 Cloth. ISBN: 9781469640471.)
Vicksburg, Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy. By Donald L. Miller. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. Notes, illustrations, index. Pp. 663. $35.00.