Publications

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Books

  • Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (University of North Carolina Press, October 2011).
  • Men of Color to Arms! Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality (W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., August 2010). Cloth. This book was chosen as a selection for the History Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club.
  • Lincoln’s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., March 2004). Cloth and paper. This book was chosen as a selection for the History Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club.
  • Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: A Woman’s Adventures in Union Army, by Sarah Emma Edmonds (originally published in 1864), editor and author of introduction. (Northern Illinois University Press, 1999.) Paper.
  • All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1999; paperback: Penguin Books, 2001). This book was chosen as a selection for the History Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club.
  • Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1994), cloth and paper.

Articles and Chapters

  • “Abraham Lincoln and Joseph Holt: A Lesson in Shared Purpose, Leadership, and Character,” in Gary Gallagher and Joan Waugh, eds., Title TBD (forthcoming, 2011).
  • “Lincoln’s Chief Avenger: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt,” in Harold Holzer, Craig Symonds, and Frank Williams, eds., The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory (Fordham University Press, 2010)
  • “One Kentuckian’s Hard Choice: Joseph Holt and Abraham Lincoln,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 106 (Summer-Autumn 2008). Note: This article won the Kentucky Historical Society’s Richard. H. Collins Award for the best article appearing in the Register for 2008.
  • “Mary Walker, Mary Surratt, and Some Thoughts on Gender in the Civil War,” in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds., Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2006).
  • “Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln,” in Joan E. Cashin, ed., The War Was You and Me (Princeton University Press, 2002).
  • “Civil War Nurse, Civil War Nursing: Rebecca Usher of Maine,” Civil War History, September 1995.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Thirty-six 200-word entries (plus accompanying primary documents) for Agincourt Press’s Civil War Almanac, edited by David Rubel (2001).
  • Twenty-one 750-word entries for ABC-CLIO’s Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, edited by Jeanne T. and David S. Heidler (2002)
  • Two 1000-word entries (“Annie Turner Wittenmyer,” and “Elida Barker Rumsey Fowle”) for Oxford University Press’s American National Biography publication date unknown).
  • One 750-word entry (“Mary Edwards Walker”) for Greenwood Press’s Military Women Worldwide: A Biographical Dictionary (2002).

Book Reviews

  • The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, by Kate Clifford Larson (Basic Books, 2008), for the Journal of Military History.
  • This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust (Alred A. Knopf, 2008), for the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
  • The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier, by Laura Leedy Gansler (The Free Press, 2005), for the Journal of Southern History.
  • Confederate Heroines: 120 Women Convicted by Union Military Justice, by Tom Lowry (Louisiana State University Press, 2006), for Civil War History.
  • The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis, by Kevin Dougherty (University of Mississippi Press, 2005), for The Historian.
  • Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire, by Amy S. Greenberg (Cambridge University Press, 2005), for the Civil War Book Review.
  • Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War, by Nina Silber (Harvard University Press, 2005), for the American Historical Review.
  • Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America, by Jane E. Schultz (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), for The Annals of Iowa.
  • Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo (Simon & Schuster, 2004), for The Historian.
  • Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee, by Sheila R. Phipps (Louisiana State University Press, 2004), for North Carolina Historical Review.
  • Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, by Elizabeth Varon (Oxford University Press, 2003), for The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
  • Soldier Princess: The Life & Legend of Agnes Salm-Salm in North America, 1861-1867, by David Coffey (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002), for the Journal of American History.
  • An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front, edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), for the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2001), for the Wisconsin Magazine of History.
  • Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the Civil War, by Elizabeth Young (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), for The Historian.
  • Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle, by Stephen Cushman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999), for the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.
  • General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend, by Leslie J. Gordon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), for the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
  • Taking off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, edited by Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998), for The Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
  • Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer, by Thomas J. Brown (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), for The Historian.
  • A History of Popular Women’s Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995, by Mary Ellen Zuckerman (Westport, Connecticut, 1998), for Business History Review.
  • Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman’s Life, by Mary A. DeCredico (Madison, Wisconsin, 1996), for the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
  • Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust (Chapel Hill, 1996), for the Journal of the Center for the Study of the American South.
  • Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee, by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein (Columbia, South Carolina, 1994), for the American Historical Review.
  • A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War, by Stephen Oates (New York, 1994), for the American Historical Review.
  • Victorian America and the Civil War, by Anne C. Rose (New York, 1992), for The Annals of Iowa.
  • Trials and Triumphs: The Women of the American Civil War, by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper (East Lansing, Michigan, 1991) for The Annals of Iowa.
  • The Social Gospel in Black & White, by Ralph E. Luker (Chapel Hill, 1991), for Labor History.
  • Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South, by William M. Mathews (Athens, Georgia, 1988), for Harvard Business History Review.