The Bookshelf

In "A House Built By Slaves," Jonathan W. White offers a narrative of Black Americans pushing the president toward emancipation and Lincoln listening to their arguments....

Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser's "Elusive Utopia" merges social, gender, political, and economic history while foregrounding the voices of Black and white Oberlinians.

"Civil War Witnesses" collects eight, carefully crafted and extensively researched essays.

In "Ends of War," Caroline Janney examines the uncertainties surrounding Confederate surrender.

Chris Bagley's "The Horse at Gettysburg" is a solid study by a licensed battlefield guide.

Jack Noe's "Contesting Commemoration" explores the complex realities of post-war reunion.

Alexander B. Rossino's "Their Maryland" is a lively account that challenges prevailing orthodoxy.

In "Bulldozed and Betrayed," Adam Fairclough skillfully guides readers through numerous twists and turns, outsized personalities, and charges and counter-charges of fraud, conspiracy and skullduggery.

"My Work Among the Freedmen" is simply worth reading to meet Harriet Buss and her students.

Kathleen Liuleviciu's "Rebel Salvation" is an important contribution to our understanding of the contested notions of peace that developed across the South in the wake of the Civil War.