When asked to choose five great books on military aspects of the Civil War, a leading historian was initially thrilled, then perplexed.
THE SOURCE: “Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age” by Chris C. Demchak and Peter Dombrowski, in Strategic Studies Quarterly, Spring 2011.
THE CIVIL WAR:
The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It.
Edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean.
Library of America. 814 pp. $37.50
THE SOURCE: “American Postwar ‘Big Religion’: Reconceptualizing 20th-Century American Religion Using Big Science as a Model” by Benjamin E. Zeller, in Church History, June 2011.
THE SOURCE: “Barbed Wire: Property Rights and Agricultural Development” by Richard Hornbeck, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2010.
You can't understand Abraham Lincoln without understanding the country that loved him so.
FIGHTING CHANCE:
The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America.
By Faye E. Dudden.
Oxford Univ. Press. 285 pp. $34.95
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THE SOURCE: “India’s Vanishing Vultures” by Meera Subramanian, in Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2011.