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The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction 《谋杀和暴行的记录:重建初期的种族暴力和对真相的争夺》

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2120238

Lewis Kimberley

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Letter from the editors 编辑来信

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1137/s0040585x97t991106

E. Yarovaya

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Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States 控制情绪:美国的感情、权力和奴隶制

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2120230

Beth R. Wilson

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“In sober dignity”: the Irish Brigade, ethnicity, and the Irish Catholic temperance movement in the Civil War era “以清醒的尊严”：内战时期的爱尔兰旅、种族和爱尔兰天主教禁酒运动

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2131243

Abbi E. Smithmyer

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The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois 圣徒与国家：伊利诺伊州的摩门教骚乱

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2120228

Lily Santoro

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Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War 拯救的军队:内战的新历史

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2120237

S. Grant

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Four feral women and the rise of sectionalism in the 1850s 四个野蛮女人与19世纪50年代宗派主义的兴起

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2133762

M. Pierson

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Becoming Brahmin: a country boy’s journey to Harvard Yard 成为婆罗门:一个乡下男孩的哈佛之旅

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2131245

Andrew Porwancher, Austin Coffey

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Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era 表演种族提升:E. Azalia Hackley和非裔美国人在战后到前哈莱姆时代的行动主义

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2120250

Benjamen W. Douglas

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In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation 在真正的蓝色觉醒中：史密斯菲尔德种植园家庭中的奴隶制和自由

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American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2022.2120229

Libra R. Hilde

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