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REVIEW NOTICES
Ohio's War
The Civil War in Documents
Edited by Christine Dee
(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 244. Map, illustrations, timeline, notes, select bibliography, index. Paperbound, $16.95.)
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| Judging from the first entry in Ohio University Press's The Civil War in the Great Interior series, readers with a serious interest in the war's history—including teachers at the high school and college levels who seek course texts—will be well-served by the forthcoming volumes. Christine Dee provides an excellent overview of the state's antebellum history and a two- to three-page introduction to each of the book's eight sections. The documents, many of which have never before appeared in print, are chosen from a wide variety of newspapers, letters, diaries, and official papers; they reproduce the voices of soldiers, government officials, women and children, whites and blacks. Most documents include a brief introductory headnote. The design of the volume is clean and easy to read, and the editor also includes an extensive timeline and select bibliography at the end of the book. |
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Zoar in the Civil War
By Philip E. Webber
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 130. Illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index. Paperbound, $18.95.)
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| When scholars have written about pacifist groups and their reactions to the Civil War, they have mostly confined their studies to large groups such as the Quakers and Mennonites. Smaller, pacifist utopian groups have received far less study, but Philip Webber sets about to remedy that lack for the Separatists of Zoar. Drawing on newspapers, letters, and journals, many of them from little-used German-language manuscript collections, Webber first provides an overview of the community's views on and experiences of the war. He then examines the writings of several young Separatists who became soldiers, and finally, considers the impact of the war on the later history of the settlement. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in German Americans during the Civil War, but it also merits reading by those who study nineteenth-century communitarian groups. |
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Camp Morton, 1816–1865
Indianapolis Prison Camp
By Hattie Lou Winslow and Joseph R. H. Moore
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 154. Notes, illustrations, appendix, tables, index. $14.95.)
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| In 1995, the Indiana Historical Society first reprinted a 1940 history of the Civil War training-turned-prisoner-of-war facility, Camp Morton. For most Civil War books, a reprint of a reprint would not be news, but Hattie Winslow and Joseph Moore wrote what is still one of the few scholarly works on this camp; the book makes excellent use of the authors' research in primary documents and remains a standard reference on the subject. An updated bibliography of works on Civil War prison camps, together with some expert commentary, would have been a welcome addition and rendered the book an even more valuable historical resource, but the re-availability of the original work will have to suffice. |
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Echoes From One-Room Schools
Monroe County, Indiana
By Monroe County Retired Teachers
(Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2006. Pp. ix, 465. Sources, figures, tables, maps, illustrations. Paperbound, $28.99.)
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| Although this book will appeal primarily to anyone who grew up in Monroe County, the volume can also be enjoyed by anyone interested in the one-room schools of the rural Midwest. Interviews with teachers and students have been excerpted and organized, first by township and then by schoolhouse. Topics range from transportation (mostly walking) to games played during recess. Pupils recall the subjects they studied and the punishments they received. Teachers recall their low pay and hard work, as well as their love of teaching. The book is heavily illustrated and also includes useful township maps. |
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A Belief in Providence
A Life of Saint Theodora Guerin
By Julie Young
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 182. Illustrations, index. $17.95.). . . |
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