Books Received

Barnes, Diane L., Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013).

Black, Samuel W., The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, 2013).

Bogar, Thomas A., Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors and the Stagehands at the Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2013).

Brownlee, Peter John, Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Cheathem, Mark R., Andrew Jackson, Southerner (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013).

Conroy, James B., Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014).

Earle, Jonathan, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2013).

Ellis, Michael, North Carolina English, 1861–1865: A Guide and Glossary (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Press, 2013).

Frederickson, Mary E. and Delores M. Walters, Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013).

Gilmore, Michael T., The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Halverson, Cathryn, Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839–1987 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013).

Jones, Jacqueline, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America (New York: Basic Books, 2013).

King, William S., To Raise Up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2013).

Lampley, Karl, A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence, and Theology (New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2013).

Lepa, Jack H., Grant’s River Campaign: Fort Henry to Shiloh (New York: McFarland & Co., 2014).

McGuire, Judith Brockenbrough, Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War: Annotated Edition (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).

Oakes, James, The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War (New York: W.W. Norton, 2013).

Petty, Adrienne Monteith, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Phillips, Samuel R., Torn by War: The Civil War Journals of Mary Adelia Byers (Tulsa: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013).

Reinhart, Joseph R., Yankee Dutchmen Under Fire: Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013).

Sim, David, A Union Forever: The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).

Serrano, Richard, Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery that Outlived the Civil War (New York: Smithsonian Books, 2013).

Smith, John David, Race and Recruitment (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013).

Smith, John David and J. Vincent Lowery, The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013).

Sparks, Randy J., Where the Negroes are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).

Spruill III, Matt and Matt Spruill IV, Summer Lightning: A Guide to the Second Battle of Manassas (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Press, 2013).

Wright, Ben and Zachary Dresser, Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013).

Wills, Brian Steel, Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013).

Winslow III, Richard E., “A Race of Shipbuilders”: The Hanscoms of Eliot, Maine (Portsmouth: Portsmouth Marine Society, 2013).

Wolters, Timothy S., Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).

Woodworth, Steve E., Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland (New York: Praeger, 2013).