| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line. By Jeremy Neely. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 305 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1729-5.)

Historians and the public alike continue to be captivated by the Kansas-Missouri border conflicts during the Civil War era. Nicole Etcheson's Bleeding Kansas (2004) and James McPherson's second volume of Road to Disunion (2007) are just two of the recent studies that carefully examine the topic. Jeremy Neely capitalizes on the salience of the border wars, but moves beyond a focus on their violence to explore the reconstruction of the border and the settlers' attempts at reconciliation after the war. In The Border between Them, Neely examines "ordinary people" who populated six neighboring counties and finds that the border served as both a "symbol of peaceful reunion" and as a bitter reminder of a "violent past ... making reconciliation an ever elusive prospect" (p. 3).

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