Commemorating the old battleground: the celebrations of the Battle of Tippecanoe and 1850s politics

2024-7-17

“The fires of liberty”: American abolitionist perspectives on the Haitian revolution, 1791–1806

2024-6-14

The Spartan mother in America: 1865–1900

2024-6-14

Cyrena Stone’s Civil War: the “Miss Abby” diary and the Confederate home front

2024-6-12

Teaching nineteenth-century American history with music: leveraging the possibilities through technology and Universal Design for Learning

2024-5-21

“If you kill him, you have got to kill me first”: examining individual and collective loyalties during the Memphis Massacre (1866)

2024-5-3

Le Judas Confedéré: James Longstreet’s surprising alliance with Black politicians in New Orleans

2024-4-24

“Has He Madeira of Fifty Years Standing?”: Gentility, medievalism, masculinity, and the allure of the Virginia Springs in the late antebellum South

2024-4-24

“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861

2024-4-24

Black women and the cultural performance of music in mid-nineteenth century Natchez

2024-2-13

We have fed you all 1000 years: nineteenth-century radical song and the rise of North American labor

2024-2-13

To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner <b>To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner</b> , by Carole Emberton, New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2022, pp. 266, $28.95 (hbk), ISBN 978 1 324 00182 9

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Books Reviewed

2024-1-2

The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 <b>The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861</b> , by Jesse Olsavsky, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022, pp. xii, 279, $45.00(hbk), ISBN 9780807177303

2024-1-2

Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction <b>Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction</b> , by Gordon C. Rhea, Baton Rouge: The Louisiana University Press, 2021, pp. 189, $29.95(hbk), $19.95(e-book), ISBN 978 0 8071 7626 9, ISBN 978 0 8071 7657 3

2024-1-2

American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation <b>American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation</b> , by Roberto Saba, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021, pp. 373, $37.00 (hbk), $25.90 (e-book), ISBN 978 0 6911 9074 7, ISBN 978 0 6912 0535 9

2024-1-2

Letter from the editors

2024-1-2

Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition <b>Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition</b> , by Kathleen M. Brown, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023, pp. 446, $39.95 (hbk), $39.95 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 5128 2327 1, ISBN 978 1 5128 2328 8

2024-1-2

The Papers of the Revolutionary era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition and the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriot Pinckney Horry Digital Edition <b>The Papers of the Revolutionary era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition and the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriot Pinckney Horry Digital Edition</b> , both edited by Constance B. Schulz, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012–2023[https://exhibits.library.sc.edu/peopleenslavedbythepinckneys/], $260[individual purchasers…

2024-1-2

Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico &amp; Argentina 1860–1880 <b>Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico &amp; Argentina 1860–1880</b> , by Evan C. Rothera, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022, pp. 325, $50.00(hbk), ISBN 978 0 8071 7147 9

2024-1-2

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America <b>Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America</b> , edited by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021, pp. 286, $36.95 (pbk), ISBN 9 780 8203 5965 6

2024-1-2

Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands <b>Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands</b> , by Bernadine Marie Hernández, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. 225, $29.95(pbk), ISBN 978 1 4696 6789 8

2024-1-2

Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America <b>Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America</b> , by Leslie A. SchwalmChapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023, pp. 232, $99.00 (hbk), $24.95 (pbk), $0.00 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 7268 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 7269 4, ISBN 978 1 4696 7270 0

2024-1-2

Agents of Empire: The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest during the Civil War <b>Agents of Empire: The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest during the Civil War</b> , by James Robbins Jewell, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023, pp. 356, $45.00 (hbk), $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4962 3303 5, ISBN 978 1 4962 3641 8

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Afterword

2023-9-2

Letter from the editors

2023-9-2

From obscurity to national icon: memorializing Stephen C. Foster in the 1890s

2023-9-2

Singers and managers: women and the operatic stage in late nineteenth-century America

2023-9-2

Music in American nineteenth-century history

2023-9-2

Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen’s Bureau <b>Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen’s Bureau</b> by Dale Kretz, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022, Pp. 412, $110(hbk), $39.95(pbk), $29.99(e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 7101 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 7102 4, ISBN 978 1 4696 7103 1

2023-5-4

The Transcendentalists and Their World <b>The Transcendentalists and Their World</b> by Robert A. Gross, New York: Picador, 2022, Pp. 880, $40.00 (hbk), $25.00 (pbk), $12.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 0 3742 7932 5, ISBN 978 1 2508 5907 5, ISBN 978 0 3747 1188 7

2023-5-4

From Mississippi and Memphis to Mozambique: American emancipation and the evangelical struggles of Benjamin and Henrietta Ousley and Nancy Jones, “ex-slave” missionaries in “Zulu East Africa,” 1850s–1900

2023-5-4

Correction

2023-5-4

“The Great Demoralization”: race, intimacy, and empire in the American West’s anti-Chinese movement, c. 1848–1892

2023-5-4

“John Brown is immortal”: Charles Spurgeon, the American press, and the ordeal of slavery

2023-5-4

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States <b>Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States</b> , by Laura F. Edwards, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, Pp. 456, $34.95(hbk), $17.99(e-book), ISBN 978 0 19 756857 6

2023-5-4

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North <b>Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North</b> by Crystal Lynn Webster, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021, Pp. 208, $95.00 (hbk), $24.95 (pbk), $19.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 6322 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 6323 4, ISBN 978 1 4696 6324 1

2023-5-4

For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told <b>For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told</b> , by Charles Warren Stoddard, edited with an introduction byChristopher Looby, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023, Pp. 264, $34.95 (pbk), $34.95 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 5128 2387 5, ISBN 978 1 5128 2388 2

2023-5-4

Letter from the editors

2023-5-4

Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity <b>Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity</b> by Bradley R. Clampitt, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022, Pp. 344, $50.00(hbk), ISBN 978 0 8071 7716 7

2023-5-4

Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp <b>Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp</b> by J. Brent Morris, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, Pp. 256, $29.95 (hbk), $23.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 6825 3, ISBN 978 1 4696 6826 0

2023-5-4

Books Reviewed

2023-5-4

America’s black temperance movement, 1827–1894: charting a forgotten history

2023-5-4

Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers <b>Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers</b> by Dillon J. Carroll,Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021, Pp. 342, $45.00 (hbk), $14.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 0 8071 6966 7, ISBN 978 0 8071 6966 8.

2023-5-4

The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War <b>The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War</b> , by Michael D. Pierson, Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 2023Pp. 200, $40.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8071 7872 0

2023-5-4

The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution <b>The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution</b> by James Oakes, New York: W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2022, Pp. 256, $17.95, ISBN 978 1 324 02019 6

2023-5-4

The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen PrinceThe Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen Prince by K. Stephen Prince, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021, Pp. 264, $95.00 (hbk), $27.95 (pbk), $22.95 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 6182 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 6182 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 6183 4

2023-5-4

The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States <b>The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States</b> , by Reinhard O. Johnson, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021, Pp. 516, $45.00(pbk), ISBN 978 0 8071 7516 3

2023-5-4

American Empire in Global History

2023-1-2

Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

2023-1-2