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• In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America

  Author:Robert GudmestadFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019519 words Book review 1250LIn the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America. By Andrew F. Lang. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 317. $47.50.) In 1863 up to 40% of Union troops...

• Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians

  Author:Jennifer GerrishFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019494 words Book review 1270LVirtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians. By Catalina Balmaceda. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 297. $45.00.) Rome's transition from Republic to Principate...

• Transatlantic Antifascisms: From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II

  Author:David AlianoFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019502 words Book review 1380LTransatlantic Antifascisms: From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II. By Michael Seidman. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 339. $28.99.) Transatlantic Antifascisms provides a...

• Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

  Author:Robert Michael MorrisseyFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019639 words Book review 1310LRevolution Song: A Story of American Freedom. By Russell Shorto. (New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 2018. Pp. xii, 622. $28.95.) Russell Shorto's new book tells the story of the American Revolution through rich...

• The Double Game: The Demise of Americas First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation

  Author:Mark S. BellFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019543 words Book review 1350LThe Double Game: The Demise of Americas First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation. By James Cameron. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 234. $74.00.) A persistent feature...

• Turning Points of the American Civil War

  Author:Jr. James I. RobertsonFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019528 words Book review 1080LTurning Points of the American Civil War. Edited by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 248. $24.50.) For 150 years the debate has continued....

• Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia. A Revolutionary in the Time of Tsarism and Bolshevism

  Author:Frederick CorneyFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019520 words Book review 1450LVladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia. A Revolutionary in the Time of Tsarism and Bolshevism. By Robert Henderson. (London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xi, 351. $103.00.) This exhaustive study traces a...

• The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

  Author:Sarah CrabtreeFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019538 words Book review 1370LThe Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist. By Marcus Rediker. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2017. Pp. 224. $26.95.) Were Benjamin Lay (1682-1759) alive today, his social...

• Divided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy

  Author:Cameron ZinsouFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019531 words Book review 1150LDivided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy. By Edward E. Gordon and David Ramsay. (New York, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017. Pp. 461. $26.00.) Edward E. Gordon and David...

• Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World

  Author:Maya ShatzmillerFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019608 words Book review 1540LSea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World. By Christophe Picard. Translated by Nicholas Elliott. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 376. $35.00.) Writing about the...

• The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

  Author:Jennifer GraberFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019549 words Book review 1210LThe Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West. By Peter Cozzens. (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2016. Pp. 467. $20.00.) Peter Cozzens's sweeping narrative covers conflicts that spanned...

• Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

  Author:Rosina LozanoFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019500 words Book review 1560LPorous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Julian Lim. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 302. $32.50.) The U.S.-Mexico borderlands underwent a...

• America's First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the Navy, 1900-1950

  Author:B.J. ArmstrongFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019649 words Book review 1230LAmerica's First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the Navy, 1900-1950. By John T. Kuehn. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 299. $34.95.) Scholars often...

• Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History

  Author:John ChildsFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019470 words Book review 1320LGibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History. By Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins. (New York, NY: Viking, 2017. Pp. xxvi, 420. $30.00.) The 'Great Siege of Gibraltar', 16 June 1779 until 20 January 1783, was one of...

• The Tango War: The Struggles for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

  Author:Russell CrandallFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019532 words Book review 1370LThe Tango War: The Struggles for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II. By Mary Jo McConahay. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2018. Pp. 336. $29.99.) Imagine a restaurant on a street...

• Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy

  Author:George SirgiovanniFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019523 words Book review 1350LFortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy. By Elaine Tyler May. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. 247. $30.00.) As its alarming title indicates, Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and...

• The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery

  Author:Felicia Y. ThomasFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019467 words Book review 1350LThe Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery. By Noel Rae. (New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 2018. Pp. ix, 591. $40.00.) Slavery is the great stain that "lies at the root of so much that ails America today." This...

• Blanche of Castile, Queen of France

  Author:Theresa EarenfightFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019526 words Book review 1410LBlanche of Castile, Queen of France. By Lindy Grant. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 456. $50.00.) Lindy Grant's full-length biography of Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) is a welcome addition to...

• BUFFALO SOLDIERS AS GUARDIANS OF THE PARKS: AFRICAN-AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE CALIFORNIA NATIONAL PARKS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

  Author:Kathy S. MasonFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20196,644 words Article 1560LIn late May of 1903, Troops I and M of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, under the command of Captain Charles Young, left the Presidio in San Francisco, California, for their summer assignment. In sixteen days, these men traveled...

• Richard III: England's Most Controversial King

  Author:Charity UrbanskiFrom:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019525 words Book review 1450LRichard III: England's Most Controversial King. By Chris Skidmore. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2018. Pp. xxiii, 432. $29.99.) Richard III arguably faces competitors for the title of England's most...