Book Series: Journal of the Civil War Era

Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2013 Issue

By William A. Blair

The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 3, Number 2 June 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor's Note William Blair Articles Stephen Cushman When Lincoln Met Emerson Christopher Phillips Lincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2014 Issue

By William A. Blair

From the 1660s through the American Civil War, no North American power expanded as extensively as the British ... early seventeenth-century, in reality European states exercised only nominal power over their colonies and even less over ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Spring 2012 Issue

By William A. Blair

Now available in Omnibus Ebook Editions Exclusively for Amazon Kindle These e-books bundle the definitive volumes by our most loved authors into one searchable ... THE EARL J. HESS FORTIFICATIONSTRILOGY THE HARRY PFANZ GETTYSBURG TRILOGY.

Journal of the Civil War Era: Winter 2013 Issue -- PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION AT 150: A SPECIAL ISSUE

By William A. Blair

So he would never have said to the Jollies, as he does in the film, that they should contact their congressman (the mythical “Beanpole Burton”) and tell him to support the measure for the sake of “military necessity.

Journal of the Civil War Era: Fall 2014 Issue

By William A. Blair

—Karen L. Cox, author of Dreaming of Dixie 328 pages $35.00 THE ORDEAL OF THE REUNION A New History of Reconstruction Mark Wahlgren Summers “Understanding Reconstruction as its contemporaries did, as a time to consolidate the nation but ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2011 Issue

By William A. Blair

John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory. By Brian Craig Miller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010. Pp. 317. Cloth, $37.95.) It has been decades since a scholar has attempted a biography of John Bell Hood, ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Spring 2013 Issue

By William A. Blair

Lyons to Russell, July 8, 1861, reprinted in The American Civil War through British Eyes: Dispatches from British Diplomats, vol. 1, November 1860–April 1862, ed. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Winter 2011 Issue

By William A. Blair

Table of Contents for this issue: volume 1, number 4: december 2011 Articles rachel a. shelden Messmates' Union: Friendship, Politics, and Living Arrangements in the Capital City, 1845–1861 bruce levine "The Vital Element of the ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Winter 2014 Issue -- Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History: A Special...

By William A. Blair

Steven E. Woodworth, author of Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland Modern War Studies 600 pages, 30 illustrations, 20 maps, Cloth $34.95, Ebook $34.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK Lincoln and the Border States Preserving the Union ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2012 Issue

By William A. Blair

Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy. By Robert Nowatzki. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Pp. 216. Cloth, $38.50.) Robert Nowatzki's Representing African Americans ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Spring 2011 Issue

By William A. Blair

For an account of these early performances of Fawcett's play, see Peter P. Reed, Rogue Performances: Staging the ... It is difficult to determine audience reaction to the content of plays, as many reviews focus more on evaluations of ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Fall 2013 Issue

By William A. Blair

Wolfe might have gone further for Crofts and A Secession Crisis Enigma. This is an excellent book for experts on and students of the Civil War era who have read and debated “The Diary of a Public Man.” It also is fine reading for those ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Fall 2011 Issue

By William A. Blair

—ALBERT CASTEL, AUTHOR OF DECISION IN THE WEST: THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN OF 1864 $44.95 cloth / 6 x 9/496 pages 35 illustrations These Men Have Seen Hard Service The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War Raymond J. Herek These Men ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Winter 2012 Issue

By William A. Blair

Danielson, Joseph W., War's Desolating Scourge: The Union's Occupation of North Alabama (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012). Diffley, Kathleen, ed., Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Fall 2012 Issue

By William A. Blair

The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 2, Number 3 September 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture Joan Waugh "I Only Knew What Was in My Mind": Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox Patrick Kelly The ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Spring 2014 Issue

By William A. Blair

... Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields. By J. Christian Spielvogel. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013. Pp. 190. Cloth, $34.95.) Interpreting civil wars is always tricky ...