Recent Acquisitions to My Library

Dear Uncles: The Civil War Letters of Arthur McKinstry, a Soldier in the Excelsior Brigade, edited by Rick Barram

Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South by Robert Bonner

Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 by Robert J. Cook

First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery by Ken Ellingwood

To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson

Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett

The Boys of Diamond Hill: The Lives and Civil War Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville County, South Carolina, edited by J. Keith Jones

General Wadsworth: The Life and Times of Brevet Major General James F. Wadsworth by Wayne Mahood

A Mad Man's Will: John Randolph, 400 Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom by Gregory May

One South or Many: Plantation Belt and Upcounty in Civil War-Era Tennessee by Robert Tracy McKenzie

Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and his War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt and David S. Schafer

 

Dismal Freedom: A History of Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris

Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, edited by Damian Alan Pargas

Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State: Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home, edited by Gerald L. Smith

This is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations by Whitney Nell Stewart