Author Archives: crb11

Natalie J. Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012). Natalie J. Ring revises historical debates about the national understanding of the American South during the late nineteenth and early … Continue reading →

Adam Rothman, Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015). Adam Rothman’s very recent work, Beyond Freedom’s Reach, uses a micro historical approach to articulate the complexities of the Emancipation Proclamation’s effectiveness, … Continue reading →

Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Thavolia Glymph examines the power relations between black and white women within the plantation household over the antebellum years, throughout wartime, … Continue reading →

Stephen David Kantrowitz, More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829–1889 (New York: The Penguin Press, 2012).   Stephen David Kantrowitz presents a unique periodization of the nineteenth century to explain the legacy of black activists … Continue reading →

Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008). “By making victimization the main story line of a struggle in which strikers actually inflicted more deaths than they suffered, historians have treated men, … Continue reading →

Alan M. Kraut, “Doing As Americans Do: The Post-Migration Negotiation of Identity in the United States” Journal of American History 101:3 (Dec. 2014): 707–725. Political discourse about immigration in the United States marches on with great continuity. This historical trend … Continue reading →

Jonathan Levy, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012). Elizabeth Tandy Shermer lists Jonathan Levy’s Freaks of Fortune as a work of intellectual history contributing to the writing of … Continue reading →

Chandra Manning, What this Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York: Vintage Books, 2007).   Civil War scholarship has changed definitively throughout the twentieth century. This trend can be attributed to the vast social changes … Continue reading →