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1.	Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War by Carnahan, Burrus M. REVIEW: by Volpe, Vernon ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

2.	Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln by Prokopowicz, Gerald J. REVIEW: by Wert, Jeffry D. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

3.	Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: People and Perspectives by Cheathem, Mark R., ed. REVIEW: by Schoenbachler, Matthew ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

4.	Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Guelzo, Allen C. REVIEW: by Klunder, Willard Carl ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

5.	Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession by McClintock, Russell REVIEW: by Renda, Lex ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

6.	Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum by Simon, John Y. REVIEW: by Prokopowicz, Gerald J. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

7.	Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War by Lewin, J.G. REVIEW: by Halloran, Fiona ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

8.	One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to Civil War by Waugh, John C. REVIEW: by Zarefsky, David ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

9.	The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America by Morris, Roy, Jr. REVIEW: by Dirck, Brian ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

10.	The Words of War by Bracken, Donagh REVIEW: by Mays, Thomas D. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

11.	To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 by Hoffer, Williamjames Hull REVIEW: by Bottoms, D. Michael ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

12.	What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Howe, Daniel Walker REVIEW: by Purcell, Sarah J. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

13.	A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: STUDYING THE LIFE OF LINCOLN Lincoln’s Legacy: Ethics and Politics by Paludan, Phillip Shaw, ed. COLUMN: by Williams, Frank J. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

14.	A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War by Nelson, Scott ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

15.	A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 by Rubin, Anne Sarah ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

16.	A Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South by Fitzgerald, Michael W. REVIEW: by Lee, Susanna Michele ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

17.	Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War by Eicher, David J. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

18.	Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction by Snay, Mitchell ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

19.	For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s by Formisano, Ronald P. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

20.	Forge of Empires, 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made by Beran, Michael Knox ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

21.	General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse by Glatthaar, Joseph T. INTERVIEW: by Childers, Christopher ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

22.	Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers by Simon, James F. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

23.	Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President by Steers, Edward, Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

24.	Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency by Harris, William C. REVIEW: by Burton, Orville Vernon ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

25.	Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality by Huston, James L. REVIEW: by Hansen, Stephen L. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

26.	Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South by Reynolds, Donald E. REVIEW: by Melton, Brian C. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

27.	The London Confederates: The Officials, Clergy, Businessmen and Journalists Who Backed the American South During the Civil War by Bennett, John D. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

28.	The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War by Bonner, Robert E. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

29.	The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828–1861 by Eyal, Yonatan REVIEW: by Feller, Daniel ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

30.	A Nation Transformed: How the Civil War Changed America Forever by Henig, Gerald S. REVIEW: by Jewett, Clayton E. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

31.	A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy by Downing, David C. REVIEW: by Moneyhon, Carl ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

32.	Abraham Lincoln, The Illustrated Edition: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Sandburg, Carl ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

33.	Desperate Engagement: How a Little Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington D.C., and Changed American History by Leepson, Marc ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

34.	INTERVIEW: Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia by Sheehan-Dean, Aaron INTERVIEW: by Childers, Christopher ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

35.	Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607-2007 by Heinemann, Ronald L. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

36.	REDISCOVERING CIVIL WAR CLASSICS: Lincoln Books That Should Get Reprinted by Madden, David ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

37.	Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the War Between the States by O’Brien, Cormac ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

38.	Stealing Lincoln’s Body by Craughwell, Thomas J. REVIEW: by Winkle, Kenneth ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

39.	The Age of Lincoln by Burton, Orville Vernon REVIEW: by Gallman, J. Matthew ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

40.	The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America by Forbes, Robert Pierce REVIEW: by Gutzman, Kevin R.C. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

41.	War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by Cisco, Walter Brian REVIEW: by Gross, Jennifer ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

42.	A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: STUDYING THE LIFE OF LINCOLN Lincoln and the American Manifesto by Jayne, Allen COLUMN: by Williams, Frank J. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

43.	A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War by Nelson, Scott REVIEW: by Kenzer, Robert C. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

44.	Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865 by Duncan, Richard R. REVIEW: by Browning, Judkin ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

45.	Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction by Williams, Patrick G. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

46.	Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900 by Calhoun, Charles W. REVIEW: by Peskin, Allan ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

47.	Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to the Civil War, 1861 by Lankford, Nelson D. REVIEW: by Shade, William G. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

48.	Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827 by Gellman, David N. REVIEW: by Mason, Matthew ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

49.	Henry Adams and the Southern Question by O’Brien, Michael ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

50.	John Tyler: The Accidental President by Crapol, Edward P. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

51.	Lincoln’s Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships by Cross, Coy F., II REVIEW: by Dougherty, Kevin ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

52.	Lincoln’s White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O. Stoddard by Holzer, Harold, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

53.	No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North by Smith, Adam I.P. REVIEW: by Hershock, Martin ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

54.	PERSPECTIVES FROM AFAR: War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana by Warmoth, Henry Clay COLUMN: by Hogue, James K. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

55.	Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Wolf, Eva Sheppard REVIEW: by Mason, Matthew ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

56.	Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States. by Brown, Thomas J., ed. REVIEW: by Zuczek, Richard ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

57.	The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War by Hamilton, Daniel W. REVIEW: by Long, David E. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

58.	Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867 by Nabers, Deak REVIEW: by Curtis, Michael Kent ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

59.	Abraham Lincoln Portrayed in the Collections of the Indiana Historical Society by Holzer, Harold, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

60.	Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay by Burlingame, Michael, ed. REVIEW: by Chesson, Michael ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

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