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

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The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict

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The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

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The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling

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The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader

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Citizens and Communities: Civil War History Readers, Volume 4

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The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture

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Response to Imperialism: The United States and the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902

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The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains, 1861

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Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era

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Virginia at War, 1864

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War upon Our Border: Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War

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A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac

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The Blue & Gray Almanac: The Civil War in Facts & Figures, Recipes & Slang

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The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War

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West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace

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Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876

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New Men: Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

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Illinois’s War: The Civil War in Documents

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Voices of the Army of the Potomac: Personal Reminiscences of Union Veterans

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To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783

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Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War

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The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles

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The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning

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Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand

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Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It

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Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front

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When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865

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A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era

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The Collapse of The Confederacy

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A People's History of the United States

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

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One Thought Scares Me...: We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know

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The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

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1776

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Summary of The Fourth Turning: by William Strauss & Neil Howe - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny - A Comprehensive Summary

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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Land of Delusion: Deep inside the world of crackpots, conspiracy theorists, and radical ideas that are becoming dangerously mainstream

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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The Fifties

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

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Joseph J. Ellis, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright, 2021): An interview with Joseph J. Ellis

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Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020): An interview with Daniel Y. Kim

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Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022): An interview with Olivier Burtin

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Lecture 5 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality: Professor Blight offers an introduction to the course. He summarizes some of the course readings, and discusses the organization of the course. Professor Blight offers some thoughts on the nature of history and the study of history, before moving into a discussion of the reasons for Americans' enduring fascination with the Civil War. The reasons include: the human passion for epics, Americans' fondness for redemption narratives, the Civil War as a moment of "racial reckoning," the fascination with loss and lost causes, interest in military history, and the search for the origins of the modern United States. Transcript Lecture Page

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Lecture 1 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?: Professor Blight offers an introduction to the course. He summarizes some of the course readings, and discusses the organization of the course. Professor Blight offers some thoughts on the nature of history and the study of history, before moving into a discussion of the reasons for Americans' enduring fascination with the Civil War. The reasons include: the human passion for epics, Americans' fondness for redemption narratives, the Civil War as a moment of "racial reckoning," the fascination with loss and lost causes, interest in military history, and the search for the origins of the modern United States. Transcript Lecture Page

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Gregory Downs: Did the Real War Ever Get in the Books?

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Shay Hazkani, "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (Stanford UP, 2021): An interview with Shay Hazkani

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Joanne B. Freeman: Live at Politics and Prose: Joanne B. Freeman discusses her book, "The Field of Blood", at Politics and Prose on 9/20/18.

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Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023): An interview with Yael A. Sternhell

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Donald F. Johnson, "Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020): An interview with Donald F. Johnson

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David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier" (Manchester UP, 2019): Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...

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David Alan Richards, "I Give These Books: The History of the Yale University Library, 1656-2016" (Oak Knoll, 2022): An interview with David Alan Richards

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The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein): Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss the "state of the field" of historical studies of American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should it orient itself to 2024?

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Chelsea Stieber, "Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954" (NYU Press, 2020)

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Chelsea Stieber, "Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954" (NYU Press, 2020): An interview with Chelsea Stieber

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Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016): Michael Bryant’s book is both less and more ambitious than its title. He’s writing less of a history of war crimes than he is a history of the idea and concept of war crimes. He’s most interested in what people have considered a breach of the norms of ...

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Megan Kate Nelson, "Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America" (Scribner, 2022): An interview with Megan Kate Nelson

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Black Soldiers & their Families in the Civil War

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Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018): An interview with Michael Braddick

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Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023): An interview with Ayelet Brinn

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Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Lionel Beehner, Risa Brooks, and Daniel Maurer

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Stephanie McCurry: Did the Real War Ever Get in the Books?

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Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Lionel Beehner, Risa Brooks, and Daniel Maurer

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Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha, "Old and New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)

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Stephen Cushman, "The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today" (UNC Press, 2021)

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Episode 149 - A Blast from the Past Episodes 7 and 8: Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode: # 07        Original Publish Date:  April 8, 2007 The April 15 tax deadline is looming: did you know that The Civil War income tax was the first tax paid on individual incomes by...

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Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023): An interview with Ayelet Brinn

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Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023): An interview with Ayelet Brinn

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Sally Ninham, “A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American Postgraduate Degrees, 1949-1964” (Conner Court Publishing, 2001): Despite its focus on education, Sally Ninham‘s recent book, A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American PostgraduateDegrees, 1949-1964 (Connor Court Publishing, 2011), covers a lot of ground: the waning of Australian-British tie...

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Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023): An interview with Ayelet Brinn