Susan-Mary Grant

Biographic Data

ID3922445
NAMESusan-Mary Grant
GIVEN NAMESSusan-Mary
FAMILY NAMEGrant
SIGNATUREGRANT S
AFFILIATIONSNewcastle University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry (review)

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEThe Journal of the Civil War Era2023

    Reviewed by: Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry Susan-Mary Grant (bio) Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It. By Stephen Berry. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 137. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $21.95.) In 2016 Stephen Berry launched the website CSI: Dixie (https://csidixie.org), an extraordinary collection of material relating to the corone…

  • No Right to be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2019

  • Ambivalent Nation: How Britain Imagined the American Civil War, by Hugh Dubrulle

    Open AccessStephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEThe English Historical Review2019

    In the summer of 1862, George Thomson, who would in the following year take over as head of the Clyde Bank Foundry in Glasgow, wrote to James North of Fraser, Trenholm and Company of Liverpool, a commercial house with strong ties to the Confederacy. The subject under discussion was ironclads, specifically the practicalities of modifying vessels to this purpose, which was hardly a surprising subject of exchange between these two men. But Thomson c…

  • Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation, by Paul Schor, tr. Lys Ann Weiss

    Open AccessStephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEThe English Historical Review2019

    As Paul Schor makes clear from the outset, this study is not simply an analysis of the ways in which the census counted Americans but rather the ways in which the various iterations of the census, from the first in 1790 through to the 1940s, determined which Americans actually counted, specifically, although not exclusively, in respect of race and ethnicity. It is, in short, and in its author’s words, a work ‘about the invention and the building …

  • Holmes' front: Constructing a new face of battle for America's Civil War

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLESmall Wars and Insurgencies2019References: 16

    In his seminal study of the changing nature of warfare between Agincourt and the Somme, military historian John Keegan proposed that future historians might consider combatants’ emotions in their assessments of the impact and nature of conflict. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of the history of emotions as an analytical approach, but rarely, if ever, is this directed toward the study of military history, far less the history of insurgen…

  • Civil War Pharmacy: A History (Second Edition)

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2018

    Originally published in 2004, Michael Flannery’s Civil War Pharmacy was, and remains, an indispensable guide to the complexities, contradictions, and general confusion of the pharmaceutical side of

  • Apostle of Union: A political biography of Edward Everett

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLESlavery and Abolition2017

  • When the Fires Burned Too Close to Home: Southern women and the dislocations of the home front in the American Civil War

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEWomen s History Review2017

    For southern women during the American Civil War, the concept of home front and battlefront was often a distinction without a difference. What had been domestic space became, over the course of the conflict, military, medical and memorial space. As their homes became hospitals and their gardens, graveyards, many found themselves adrift. Whether as white refugees, fleeing the invading armies, or as slaves, fleeing toward freedom, theirs was a disl…

  • Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2016

    Appearing as it does in the final year of the American Civil War’s sesquicentennial, this graphic history’s intended market is simultaneously strikingly obvious and somewhat obscure. Assuming it me

  • Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2015

    The question of citizenship, as the editors of this remarkably rich, interdisciplinary collection of essays note at the outset, largely revolves around boundaries and belonging. As many of the indi

  • Parade's End: A Sesquicentennial Snapshot of Civil War Soldiers, Civilians and Veterans

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2015

    By the time of reading, the Civil War sesquicentennial will be over. At the time of writing, it is just drawing to a close, and already it, like the war it commemorated, has become the subject of d

  • Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2014

  • Adam Criblez. Parading Patriotism: Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826–1876

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Historians have long regarded Independence Day as a valuable snapshot of national sentiment in the United States; and for good reason. Few nations offer scholars such a regular means of taking its temporal temperature, but in the United States, Independence Day provides a valuable visual and verbal staging of the emotional and social state of the Union. Yet Independence Day was, Adam Criblez reveals, metaphorically a movable feast in the nineteen…

  • Characteristics and Contours: Mapping American History in Europe

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary Grant et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

  • State-Building and Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century USA

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook Of The…2013

    The distinction between American state-building and the construction of American nationalism is more complex than it first appears. This paper explores the changing nature of national sentiment that initially cohered around the Constitution and then, undermined by the sectional challenge from the Southern states, began to coalesce around the concept of an activist central state defined by a northern variant of American nationalism. This found pol…

  • A Concise History of the United States of America

    Open AccessStephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantBOOKConcise History of the United…2012

    Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions inherent in a country built on slave labour in the name of liberty, one …

  • National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2012

    National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851." American Nineteenth Century History, 13(3), pp. 409–410

  • A war in the name of the nation: A review essay

    Open AccessStephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLENationalities Papers2012

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  • From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLESocial History2012

  • On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary GrantARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2012

    On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War MERCEDES GRAF New York: Humanity Books, 2010 Pp. 334, $32.98 (hbk), ISBN 978 1 5910 2327 2 Had “a man been

  • Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary Grant et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2006

  • Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War

    Anne J Bailey, Stephanie M Grant et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

  • North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era

    Jean H Baker, Stephanie M Grant et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

    In most studies of nationalism, the United States is curiously ignored or is examined only during its colonial and republican periods. But it was the Civil War, argues Susan-Mary Grant, that truly formed the nation by unifying the states once and for all, abolishing slavery, and setting the country on the path to modernity. In light of this, says Grant, the antebellum period was the crucial phase of national construction. In North Over South, Gra…

  • The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War

    Stephanie M Grant, Susan-Mary Grant et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Journal Article The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War. By Wallace Hettle. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xiv, 240 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2282-2.) Get access Susan-Mary Grant Susan-Mary Grant University of NewcastleNewcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 221–222, https://do…

  • The American Civil War: Explorations and Reconsiderations

    William W Freehling, Stephanie M Grant et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2001

    This major new work brings together key writings on the most critical episodes of American history. Eschewing an overly reverential approach and combining multiple perspectives, the text is arranged around these themes: - The Political Front. - The Military Front. - The Home Front. - The Ideological Front. Examining key protagonists, critical turning points, society, economy, slavery, civil liberties and nationalism, this book offers a unique spe…