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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.	Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause by Janney, Caroline E. REVIEW: by Marshall, Anne ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

3.	Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction by Martinez, J. Michael REVIEW: by Mitchell, Mary Niall ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

4.	Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860 by Martin, Scott C. REVIEW: by Miller, Jon ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2008

5.	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

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

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

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

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

10.	A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Mihm, Stephen REVIEW: by Huston, James L. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

11.	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

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

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

14.	A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by Blight, David W. REVIEW: by Smith, Mark M. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

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

16.	Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865 by Byrne, Frank J. REVIEW: by Marrs, Aaron W. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

17.	Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility by Phillips, Jason REVIEW: by Andrew, Rod, Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

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

19.	Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad by Ricks, Mary Kay ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

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

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

22.	Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives by Bleser, Carol K. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

23.	Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South by Kaye, Anthony E. REVIEW: by Forret, Jeff ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

24.	Lincoln’s Christianity by Burkhimer, Michael ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

25.	Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William & Mary Vermillion by Elder, Donald C., III, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

26.	Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life by Klein, Stacey Jean ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

27.	Mark Twain’s Civil War by Rachels, David, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

28.	Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War by Lehman, James O. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

29.	Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1865 by Faherty, Duncan ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

30.	Stories of the Confederate South by Pittman, Rickey E. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

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

32.	Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia by Sheehan-Dean, Aaron REVIEW: by Inscoe, John C. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

33.	A Divided Heart: Letters of Sally Baxter Hampton, 1853-1862 by Hampton, Ann Fripp, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

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

35.	A Philadelphia Perspective: The Civil War Diary of Sidney George Fisher by White, Jonathan W., ed. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

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

37.	Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory by Keller, Christian B. REVIEW: by Sheehan-Dean, Aaron ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

38.	In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson by Brandt, Nat REVIEW: by Murphy, Angela F. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

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

40.	Kiss Me Good-Bye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War by Sanders, Bonny Barry ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

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

42.	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

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

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

45.	The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Noll, Mark A. REVIEW: by Huff, Peter A. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

46.	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

47.	The Rebel and the Rose: James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold by Millett, Wesley ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

48.	The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race and War in the Nineteenth Century by Hodes, Martha ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

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

50.	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

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

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

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

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

55.	Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Diouf, Sylviane A. REVIEW: by Love, Eric ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

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

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

58.	INTERVIEW: Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865 by Duncan, Richard R. INTERVIEW: by Childers, Christopher ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

59.	It Happened on the Underground Railroad by Wagner, Tricia Martineau ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

60.	Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States by Mandel, Bernard ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

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