American Nineteenth Century History, Volume 24, Issue 2 (2023)

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Letter from the editor

Editorial
Letter from the editors
Natalie Zacek
Page: 117
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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America’s black temperance movement, 1827–1894: charting a forgotten history
Sophie Salway
Pages: 119-144
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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“The Great Demoralization”: race, intimacy, and empire in the American West’s anti-Chinese movement, c. 1848–1892
Brianna Cheng
Pages: 145-174
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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From Mississippi and Memphis to Mozambique: American emancipation and the evangelical struggles of Benjamin and Henrietta Ousley and Nancy Jones, “ex-slave” missionaries in “Zulu East Africa,” 1850s–1900
Benedict Carton
Pages: 175-207
Published online: 06 Sep 2023
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“John Brown is immortal”: Charles Spurgeon, the American press, and the ordeal of slavery
Thomas Kidd
Pages: 209-225
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Book Review
The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen Prince
by K. Stephen Prince, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021, Pp. 264, $95.00 (hbk), $27.95 (pbk), $22.95 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 6182 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 6182 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 6183 4
Amy Louise Wood
Pages: 227-228
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen’s Bureau
by Dale Kretz, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022, Pp. 412, $110 (hbk), $39.95 (pbk), $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 7101 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 7102 4, ISBN 978 1 4696 7103 1
Rob Bates
Pages: 228-230
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers
by Dillon J. Carroll, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021, Pp. 342, $45.00 (hbk), $14.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 0 8071 6966 7, ISBN 978 0 8071 6966 8.
Lindsay Rae Privette
Pages: 230-232
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity
by Bradley R. Clampitt, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022, Pp. 344, $50.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8071 7716 7
Angela M. Riotto
Pages: 232-234
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North
by Crystal Lynn Webster, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021, Pp. 208, $95.00 (hbk), $24.95 (pbk), $19.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 6322 7, ISBN 978 1 4696 6323 4, ISBN 978 1 4696 6324 1
Katherine Burns
Pages: 234-235
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
by J. Brent Morris, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, Pp. 256, $29.95 (hbk), $23.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 4696 6825 3, ISBN 978 1 4696 6826 0
Duncan A. Campbell
Pages: 236-237
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States
by Reinhard O. Johnson, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021, Pp. 516, $45.00 (pbk), ISBN 978 0 8071 7516 3
David A. Cowan
Pages: 237-239
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
by James Oakes, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022, Pp. 256, $17.95, ISBN 978 1 324 02019 6
Robert Cook
Pages: 239-240
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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The Transcendentalists and Their World
by Robert A. Gross, New York: Picador, 2022, Pp. 880, $40.00 (hbk), $25.00 (pbk), $12.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 0 3742 7932 5, ISBN 978 1 2508 5907 5, ISBN 978 0 3747 1188 7
Jonathan Koefoed
Pages: 241-242
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War
by Michael D. Pierson, Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 2023 Pp. 200, $40.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8071 7872 0
Rachel L. Miller
Pages: 243-244
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
by Laura F. Edwards, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, Pp. 456, $34.95 (hbk), $17.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 0 19 756857 6
Megan Neary
Pages: 244-246
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
by Charles Warren Stoddard, edited with an introduction by Christopher Looby, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023, Pp. 264, $34.95 (pbk), $34.95 (e-book), ISBN 978 1 5128 2387 5, ISBN 978 1 5128 2388 2
Kimberly Stahler
Pages: 246-247
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Books Reviewed
Page: 249
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Correction

Correction
Correction
Page: I
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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