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Book Review

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments. Ed. by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. xviii, 508 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8232-2145-8. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8232-2146-6.)
In an essay written over a decade ago, Maris A. Vinovskis posed the question, "Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War?" (introduction, Toward a Social History of the American Civil War, 1990). With few exceptions, including Reid Mitchell, Gerald Linderman, and James McPherson, the answer so far is that they have. Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front is welcome evidence that, while social historians may not yet be winning the war, they have at least found it. . . .
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