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  • Books Received
Bearss, Edwin C., The Petersburg Campaign, Volume II: The Western Front Battles, September 1864–April 1865 (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014).
Brookhiser, Richard, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Basic Books, 2014).
Bottoms, D. Michael, An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013; 2014 paperback).
Bulik, Mark, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
Chaffin, Tom, Giant’s Causeway: Frederick Douglass’s Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014).
Chaky, Doreen, Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012; 2014 paperback).
Chambers, Lee V., The Weston Sisters: An American Abolitionist Family (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
Dolan, Kathryn Cornell, Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850–1905 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
Dougherty, Kevin, The Port Royal Experiment: A Case Study in Development (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014).
Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).
Farrow, Lee A., Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871–1872 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014).
Fornieri, Joseph R., Abraham Lincoln: Philosopher Statesman (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014).
Giguere, Joy M., Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014).
Gin Lum, Kathryn, Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Glancy, Diane, Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
Goodman, Ruth, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014).
Hallock, Judith Lee, ed., The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997; 2014 paperback).
Harrower, David I. and Thomas J. Wieckowski, A Spectacle for Men and Angels: A Documentary Narrative of Camp William Penn and the Raising of Colored Regiments in Pennsylvania. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2013).
Horrocks, Thomas A., Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). [End Page 343]
Hyde, Jr., Samuel C., ed., The Enigmatic South: Toward Civil War and Its Legacies (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014).
Jones, Gordon L., Confederate Odyssey: The George W. Wray Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta History Center (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014).
Karamanski, Theodore J. and Eileen M. McMahon, eds., Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014).
Kimmel, Ross M. and Michael P. Musick, eds., “I Am Busy Drawing Pictures”: The Civil War Art and Letters of Private John Jacob Omenhausser, CSA (Annapolis: Friends of the Maryland State Archives, 2014).
Kiser, William S., Dragoons in Apacheland: Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013; 2014 paperback).
Langguth, A.J., After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014).
Lees, William B. and Frederick P. Gaske, Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014).
Longacre, Edward G., The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).
Mackowski, Chris and Kristopher D., White. That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1–4, 1863 (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014).
Marszalek, John F., Lincoln and the Military (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014).
McNeur, Catherine, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).
Morel, Lucas E., ed., Lincoln & Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
Mouser, Bruce L., A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics: William Thomas Scott of Illinois, 1839–1917 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014).
Murphy, Kim, I Had Rather Die: Rape in the Civil War (Batesville, VA: Coachlight Press, 2014).
Orser, Joseph Andrew, The Lives of Chang & Eng: Siam’s...

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