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{"title":"2020 Hubbell Prize Awarded","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2020.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2020.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81243231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair (review)","authors":"Gregory Laski","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"catastrophic damage that spring rains and summer droughts inflicted on the Confederacy, resulting in food shortages south of the Mason-Dixon line. The Howling Storm, with just shy of five hundred pages of text, is not a quick read. Nor is it a page-turner. The many descriptions of soldiers suffering through the mud, rain, heat, and cold might prove monotonous to some readers. That being said, The Howling Storm is a very useful book. Its achievement lies in gathering an enormous amount of information about Civil War weather in one volume. In the past, good military historians included information about the weather in their campaign studies, but Noe’s book provides a relatively compact resource that historians can reference to see what the weather was up to at crucial moments of the Civil War. Because of the book’s broad approach, Noe is able to see larger patterns in the weather, conclusions that would escape more focused studies. For instance, he will note when a cold snap or a torrential downpour that affected one campaign was part of a larger weather system that was also affecting operations in a different theater. One concern that I have about this book is that it could mislead those who read it to think that weather was the most important factor controlling the events of the war. I do not mean to say that Noe asserts this or intended this outcome. Rather, it is simply a danger that comes with relying on any one analytical lens to tell a story. While Noe’s work provides a nice corrective to those who might have been tempted to ignore the weather’s influence, I think it is best read in conjunction with other military histories of the war, allowing readers to weigh the merits of weather as an explanatory tool. The Howling Storm is a great resource for those wanting to add a little information about the weather to their Civil War course, especially for historians who do not specialize in military history. All in all, lay readers and historians alike owe Noe a collective “Huzzah!” for this mammoth work and important contribution to Civil War history. Adam H. Petty History Department Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"64 1","pages":"434 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84834021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor (review)","authors":"J. G. Méndez","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"113 1","pages":"429 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79737675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today by Stephen Cushman (review)","authors":"T. Williams","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas and Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, as well as a forthcoming collection examining the writing of Albion W. Tourgée (edited by Sandra Gustafson and Robert Levine), show that though Reconstruction-era authors turned to imaginative works as their weapons, they were no less invested in discerning how to get the reading public to accept as true information about conditions in the South. In a moving epilogue, Blair extends his exploration into the latter decades of the nineteenth century with an exploration of Ida B. Wells’s anti-lynching activism. Like the Freedmen’s Bureau reporting, the work of Wells and other African American activists drew on data collection techniques to center the perspectives of Black citizens and influence policy; however, as Blair points out, in contrast to the efforts of the 1860s, “the anti-lynching campaign lacked the backing of the federal government” (135). Further, the supposedly empirically motivated scholarship on Reconstruction that was emerging in the same late nineteenth-century period repeated the erasure of African American perspectives and dismissed the data collected by the Freedmen’s Bureau just as partisans of the early Reconstruction years did. In beautifully written closing paragraphs, Blair shows how present-day organizations like the Equal Justice Initiative redress these abiding distortions via the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a lynching monument. “It is significant to have a record of wrongdoing,” Blair concludes, because such a record leaves “the possibility of an accounting” (139). As the 2022 Zinn Education Project National Report on the Teaching of Reconstruction discloses, attending to the records of Reconstruction and accounting for their impact is necessary—and very much unfinished—work. The Record of Murders and Outrages contributes to that effort powerfully and should find a ready place on course syllabi as well as on the bookshelves of scholars and any reader interested in Reconstruction. Gregory Laski US Air Force Academy","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"1 1","pages":"436 - 439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79652631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"2022 Hubbell Prize Awarded","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0044","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> 2022 Hubbell Prize Awarded <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>EDWARD VALENTIN JR.</strong> has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in <em>Civil War History</em> during 2021 for his March 2021 article, “Local Knowledge: Black Texans, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Military Occupation in Reconstruction Texas.”</p> <p>The prize selection committee, comprised of a subgroup of members of the journal’s editorial advisory board, praised the article as “well written, deftly argued, and creatively conceived.” Although focused on a local story, “Local Knowledge” sheds new light on the larger national process of Reconstruction. Valentin skillfully incorporates the source material, using it not only to establish a narrative but also to analyze and show the interplay between freedpeople and federal authorities. As a result, Valentin is able to map paths and sources of intelligence and support for the Freedmen’s Bureau, while at the same time suggesting the woefully insufficient resources the government applied to the welfare of freedpeople in Texas. As they had in the end of slavery itself, formerly enslaved people played a central role in determining their own fate in partnership with the US government.</p> <h2>PRIZE SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS</h2> <p>Lisa Tendrich Frank</p> <p>John Hennessy</p> <p>Paul Quigley</p> <p><strong>EDWARD VALENTIN JR</strong>. is a curator at the National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC. He received his bachelor of science in history from the United States Military Academy in 2010 and his doctorate in history from Rice University in May 2020. His work focuses on nineteenth-century US history and the experiences of Black soldiers in the US-Mexico borderlands during the post–Civil War era. He is currently working on a book manuscript, <em>Black Men in Army Blue: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866–1900</em>, under contract with the University of Virginia Press.</p> <p>Now in its 68th year of publication, <em>Civil War History</em> is published quarterly by The Kent State University Press. Edited by Jim Downs (Gettysburg College) <strong>[End Page 345]</strong> and Associate Editor Crystal Feimster (Yale University), it is a long-standing leader in the study of the American Civil War.</p> <p>Awarded annually by The Kent State University Press, the John T. Hubbell Prize recognizes the extraordinary contribution to the field of its namesake, who served as editor of <em>Civil War History</em> for thirty-five years. The winner is determined by the journal’s prize selection committee, and the prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award from The Kent State University Press. <strong>[End Page 346]</strong></p> Copyright © 2022 The Kent State University Press ... </p>","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era by Robert E. Cray (review)","authors":"K. Wongsrichanalai","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"2629 1","pages":"431 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73671614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret (review)","authors":"J. Wells","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Before 1850, in the putative land of liberty, several slave-trading firms operated with abandon in the nation’s capital. Among these nefarious businesses, William H. Williams’ Yellow House was one of the most profitable and the best known, a preeminent capitalist enterprise with tentacles reaching far across the slave South. Untold numbers of Black captives were bought and sold, transactions that would likely mean forced transportation to the newly opened and fertile fields of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, where once Native lands would be converted into cotton and sugarcane fields to clothe and feed consumers in rapidly globalizing markets. In this highly detailed, meticulously researched, and engagingly written study, historian Jeff Forret recounts the shady dealings and shrouded lives of the slaver Williams and the twenty-one men and six women who would become the prime figures in a highly interesting series of antebellum court cases that would endure into the Civil War. The controversy launched in 1840 when the enslaved men and women were “convicted”—without due process, of course, and via ad hoc county courts of oyer and terminer—of serious felonies, such as murder and arson. Sentenced to be executed, the enslaved had their lives spared by the Virginia governor, who ordered them to be sold outside of the United States. Upon purchasing the enslaved convicts, Williams promised to sell them in Texas, which was yet to become a part of the Union. The problem, however, was that Williams’ reputation for underhandedness meant that Virginia officials, including Alexandria mayor Bernard Hooe, remained suspicious that he would renege on his promise and sell them in New Orleans instead. Hooe kept a wary eye on Williams’ movements, and when the latter loaded his human cargo onto the Uncas, Virginia officials sent word to counterparts in Mobile and New Orleans that Williams might dock in their ports.","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"26 1","pages":"426 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84801859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“We Are Now at Gettysburg”: Gender and Place in the Iowa Woman’s Relief Corps’ Monument to Jennie Wade","authors":"Lindsey Peterson","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"39 1","pages":"373 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81813334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Contributors &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DAVID W. BLIGHT&lt;/strong&gt; is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of &lt;em&gt;Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom&lt;/em&gt; (2018), &lt;em&gt;American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era&lt;/em&gt; (2011), and &lt;em&gt;Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory&lt;/em&gt; (2001).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JIM DOWNS&lt;/strong&gt; is the author of &lt;em&gt;Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine&lt;/em&gt; (2021). His other books include &lt;em&gt;Sick from Freedom: African American Sickness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction&lt;/em&gt; (2012) and &lt;em&gt;Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation&lt;/em&gt; (2016). He has published essays in the &lt;em&gt;Atlantic, New Yorker, Washington Post, New York Times, Vice, Slate, Lancet, LA Times&lt;/em&gt;, among others. He is the editor of &lt;em&gt;Civil War History&lt;/em&gt;. Downs is the Gilder Lehrman–National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHERYL FINLEY&lt;/strong&gt; is director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College and associate professor of art history at Cornell University. Finley leads an innovative undergraduate program at the world’s largest historically Black college and university consortium in preparing the next generation of African American museum and visual arts professionals. She has written widely on photography for academic and popular publications, including &lt;em&gt;Aperture, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, American Quarterly, Art Forum&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Small Axe&lt;/em&gt;. She is also the award-winning author of &lt;em&gt;Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon&lt;/em&gt; (2018). Finley’s current research examines the global art economy, focusing on the relationship among artists, museums, biennials and migration in the book project, “Black Art Futures,” and the interdisciplinary project “Mapping Art History at HBCUs.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATTHEW FOX-AMATO&lt;/strong&gt; is associate professor of history at the University of Idaho. He is the author of &lt;em&gt;Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America&lt;/em&gt; (2019), the runner-up for the 2021 Shapiro Book Prize of the Huntington Library, a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, and a finalist for the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award. The book was also named one of the Advocate’s “Must-Read Books on Race and Hate.” Currently, Fox-Amato is working on two books, the first examining the memory of American slavery in photography and other forms of visual culture and the second book the history of the White House photographer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IAN IVERSON&lt;/strong&gt; is an editorial s","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe (review)","authors":"A. Petty","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"499 1","pages":"433 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74697730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}