Volume 37, Number 6 · April 12, 1990
Wartime
By James M. McPherson
Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
by Joseph T. Glatthaar
Free Press, 370 pp., $24.95
The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War
by Iver Bernstein
Oxford University Press, 363 pp., $29.95
Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War
by Michael Fellman
Oxford University Press, 331 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Social history during the past two decades has become the liveliest field of American history. Historians have been using evidence about class, race, ethnicity, and gender to gain insight into Americans' everyday lives—their work and leisure, their culture and ideology, their relations with one another and with the political and economic systems under which they have lived. From that research have come new perspectives that have increased our understanding of the American past—especially the past lives of blacks, women, and blue-collar workers.
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