In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

William Blair
pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0006
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Articles

The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War

Nicholas Marshall
pp. 3-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0010
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America's Long Eulogy for Compromise: Henry Clay and American Politics, 1854-58

Sarah Bischoff Paulus
pp. 28-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0014
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"Of Blood and Treasure": Recaptive Africans and the Politics of Slave Trade Suppression

Ted Maris-Wolf
pp. 53-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0018
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Review Essay

The Bonds and Boundaries of Antislavery

W. Caleb McDaniel
pp. 84-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0021
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Book Reviews

The Civil War and American Art by Eleanor Jones Harvey (review)

Nenette Luarca-Shoaf
pp. 106-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0001
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The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer and the New-York Historical Society (review)

Kristen Treen
pp. 108-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0004
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A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg (review)

Kristin Hoganson
pp. 111-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0008
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Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America by Jonathan Levy (review)

Sharon Ann Murphy
pp. 114-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0012
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The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform by James W. Trent Jr. (review)

Michael D. Pierson
pp. 116-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0016
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To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class by Erica L. Ball (review)

Stephanie J. Shaw
pp. 118-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0020
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Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America by Susan Schulten (review)

Margot Minardi
pp. 121-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0000
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Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing by Christopher Hager (review)

Travis M. Foster
pp. 124-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0003
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Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams (review)

Tess Chakkalakal
pp. 126-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0007
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The Politics of Faith during the Civil War by Timothy L. Wesley (review)

George C. Rable
pp. 129-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0011
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Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC by Kenneth J. Winkle (review)

Ed Bradley
pp. 131-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0015
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A General Who Will Fight: The Leadership of Ulysses S. Grant by Harry S. Laver (review)

Brooks D. Simpson
pp. 134-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0019
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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman (review)

Thomas Brown
pp. 136-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0022
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Across God's Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 by Anne M. Butler (review)

Barbra Mann Wall
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0002
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Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields by J. Christian Spielvogel (review)

Dwight T. Pitcaithley
pp. 141-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0005
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Books Received

pp. 144-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0009
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Professional Notes

Lincoln's Body: The President in Popular Films of the Sesquicentennial

Craig A. Warren
pp. 146-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0013
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Contributors

p. 155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2014.0017
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