TNC’s ACW: Books/club

Updated through May 3, 2013

The Effete Liberal Book Club postings are listed in chronological order, followed by a list of books and articles mentioned by TNC in his Civil War posts.

And while I don’t included any suggestions from the threads themselves, if you have suggestions, I’ll go ahead and add ‘em.

James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom a.k.a. Effete Liberal Book Club, um, book club:

‘Battle Cry of Freedom’ Discussion Group, 6.22.2010
‘Battle Cry of Freedom’ Discussion Group, Chs. 7 and 8, 6.29.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, 7.1.2010
‘Battle Cry of Victory’ Discussion Group, Chapters 7 and 8, 7.6.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, 7.13.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, Chapters 10 and 11, 7.20.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, Chapters 13 and 14, 7.27.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, Chapters 15 and 16, 8.3.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, Chapters 17-19, 8.11.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, Chapters 20 and 21, 8.17.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, Chapters 22 and 23, 8.26.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, Chapters 24-26, 8.31.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club (Next Up?), 9.2.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club: The End, 9.7.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club: A Darkhorse Candidate, 9.16.2010

EFBC: Daniel Howe, What God Hath Wrought

Effete Liberal Book Club, 10.21.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, cont., 11.12.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, 11.19.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, 12.3.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, 12.15.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, 12.17.2010
Effete Liberal Book Club, 1.7.2011
On the Matter of Effete Liberals, 2.8.2011
Effete Liberal Book Club, 2.18.2011
Paul Krugman’s Book Club, 2.25.2011
Effete Liberal Book Club, 3.4.2011
Effete Liberal Book Club, 3. 18.2011

EFBC: Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over

Possbilities:

Effete Liberalism, 9.15.11: The Collapse Of American Criminal Justice & The New Jim Crow?
Coming Soon—Effete Liberalism Rides Again, 6.4.12

Eric Foner, Reconstruction

The Effete Liberal Book Club, 6.18.12
Effete Liberal Book Club, 6.26.12
ELBC—Eric Foner’s ‘Reconstruction‘, 7.13.12
Book Club Reschedule, 7.23.12
Effete Liberal Book Club, 7.25.12
Reading Schedule for Effete Liberal Book Lovers, 8.7.12
The Effete Liberal Book Club, 8.8.12
Effete Liberal Book Club—Eric Foner’s ‘Reconstruction’, 8.13.12
Effete Liberal Book Club—Eric Foner’s ‘Reconstruction’, 8.17.12
Eric Foner’s Reconstruction, 8.24.12
The Effete Liberal Book Club, 8.31.12

ELBC: Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul (& others) [led by Sandy Young]

The Effete Liberal Book Club Rises Again, 10.15.12
Effete Liberal Book Club: Walter Johnson’s ‘Soul by Soul’, 11.9.12
The Effete Liberal Book Club Rises Again, 11.16.12
The Effete Liberal Book Club: An Apology, 12.3.12
The Effete Liberal Book Club, 12.7.12
Effete Liberal Book Club: Walter Johnson’s ‘Soul by Soul’, 12.14.12

Books/articles mentioned:

Margaret Anderson, “The Making of Modern Europe 1453 to Present” [webcast]
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Anthony Beevor, The Second World War
Ira Berlin, Mark Favreau, Steven F. Miller, eds., Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
Henry Bibb, Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave
Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America
David Blight, on the Civil War [webcasts]
David Blight, American Oracle
David Blight, A Slave No More
Fergus Bordewich, Bound For Canaan: The Epic Story of The Underground Railroad
Shearer Davis Bowman, Masters & Lords: Mid 19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
John Brown, Slave Life in Georgia
Mary Cathryn Cain, “The Art and Politics of Looking White: Beauty Practices among White Women in Antebellum America”
Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood, eds., Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times
Chris Claremont, X-Men: Inferno
Melvin Claxton and Mark Puls, Uncommon Valor
R. Randall Couch, “The Public Masked Balls of New Orleans: A Custom of Masque outside the Mardi Gras Tradition.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 403-431.
H.W. Crocker, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis
Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
St. Clair Drake, Black Folk Here And There
Philip Dray, Capitol Men
Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Benjamin Drew, A Northside View of Slavery
Charles Drew, Apostles of Disunion
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Lisa E. Farrington, Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention
Drew Gilpin Faust, The Republic of Suffering
Drew Gilpin Faust, Southern Stories
George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All!
Eric Foner, Nat Turner
Eric Foner, Reconstruction
Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction
Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Philip S. Foner and Yuval Taylor, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative (3 vols)
William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion (2 vols)
Gary Gallagher, The Union War
Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll
Paula Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter
Newt Gingrich, The Battle Of The Crater
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Ulysses S Grant, The Personal Memoirs of US Grant
Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Stephen Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet
Louis Harlan, Booker T Washington
Robert Hayden, “Middle Passage” [poem]
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth Century South
Hajo Holborne, A History of Modern Germany
Tony Horwitz, “Is Black Confederacy A Historical Truth Or Secession From Fact?” Palm Beach Post (Florida) May 11, 1997, A Section Pg. 15A
Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz, Midnight Rising
Daniel Walker Howe, What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848
Anya Jabour, “Albums of Affection: Female Friendship and Coming of Age in Antebellum Virginia.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 107 (1999): 125- 158.
Anya Jabour, “‘Grown Girls, Highly Cultivated’: Female Education in an Antebellum Southern Family.” Journal of Southern History 64 (1998): 23-64.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul
Mary Kelly, “Reading Women/Women Reading: The Making of Learned Women in Antebellum America.” Journal of American History 83 (Sep. 1996) 401-424
Kate Larsen, Bound for the Promised Land
Bruce Levine, Confederate Emancipation
Bruce Levine, The Fall Of The House Of Dixie
John Locke, Second Treatise on Government
James Loewen & James Sebesta, eds., The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over
Stephenie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning
Caleb McDaniel, The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
James McPherson, This Mighty Scourge
James McPherson, The Negro’s Civil War
James McPherson, Was Blood Thicker Than Water? Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in the Civil War, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 143, No. 1 (March 1999):102-
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
John Merriman, European Civilization 1648-1945 [webcast]
Robert Middlekauf, The Glorious Cause
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Robert M. Meyers, The Children of Pride
Robert J. Norrell, Up from History: The Life of Booker T Washington
James Oakes, The Radical and The Republican
Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates, The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion
Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
Charles L. Perdue, Thomas E. Barden, Robert K. Phillips, et. al., Weevils In The Wheat: Interviews With Virginia’s Ex-Slaves
Louise Piquet, The Octoroon–Or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life
Jeremy D. Popkin, A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution
Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E Lee Through His Private Letters
Publius, The Federalist Papers
Roger L. Ransom, The Economics of the Civil War, EH.Net, 2.1.2010
Edwin Redkey, A Grand Army Of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865
Nina Hill Robinson, Aunt Rice: The Story of a Faithful Slave
Jonathan Sarna, When Grant Expelled the Jews
Jeff Shaara, The Glorious Cause
William Shakespeare, King Lear
James J. Sheehan, The Oxford History of Modern Europe: German History 1770-1866
Stephen Sears, Gettysburg
Richard Slotkin, The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
Christine Stansell, The Feminist Promise
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Alan Taylor, American Colonies
Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops
Dean S Thomas, Cannons: An Introduction To Civil War Artillery
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard
Noah Andre Trudeau, Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862-1865
Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Theresa Urbainczysk, Slave Revolts in Antiquity
Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, eds., Virginia’s Civil War
C.V. Wedgewood, 30 Years War
C.V. Wedgewood, Velvet Studies
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
David Williams, A People’s History Of The Civil War
T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals
Brenda Wineapple, White Heat
Gordon Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States

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