Lorien Foote
Biographic Data
| ID | 5364237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorien Foote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorien |
| FAMILY NAME | Foote |
| SIGNATURE | FOOTE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | History, Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History
This roundtable discussion among War and Society historians places the American Civil War in a comparative military context. It suggests that the conflict between the Union and the Confederacy was an aberration in the broader military history of the United States and the world. Scholars consider citizenship, Black military service, masculinity, the evolution of the regular army, volunteer and conscript armies, the myth of the decisive battle, gue…
The Fortenbaugh Lecture
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
This volume integrates the military and social histories of the American Civil War in its chapter organization. Its contributors use war and society methods: a holistic approach to understanding war and its consequences that incorporates the topics and techniques of a variety of historical subfields. Each chapter narrates a military campaign embedded in its strategic, political, and social context. Authors explore the consequences of a military c…
Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
Robert Elder. The Sacred Mirror
Although the word “modernity” does not appear in the subtitle of this intriguing book, one of the important contributions of Robert Elder’s The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790–1860, is that it overthrows conventional scholarly interpretations of the position of southern evangelicalism in the transition to modernity. Historians often depict eighteenth-century evangelicals as modern radicals whose individu…
Yankee Plague
During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections bet…
Civil War Arkansas 1863
A Close Investigation of One State’s Experience Mark Christ, an established expert on Civil War Arkansas and the Community Outreach Director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, has produced the first book-length study of the battles and campaigns in the state during 1863. T
Vicksburg is the Key
The War Was You and Me
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The War Was You and Me
Vicksburg is the Key
Civil War Arkansas 1863
A Close Investigation of One State’s Experience Mark Christ, an established expert on Civil War Arkansas and the Community Outreach Director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, has produced the first book-length study of the battles and campaigns in the state during 1863. T
Yankee Plague
During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections bet…
Robert Elder. The Sacred Mirror
Although the word “modernity” does not appear in the subtitle of this intriguing book, one of the important contributions of Robert Elder’s The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790–1860, is that it overthrows conventional scholarly interpretations of the position of southern evangelicalism in the transition to modernity. Historians often depict eighteenth-century evangelicals as modern radicals whose individu…
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
This volume integrates the military and social histories of the American Civil War in its chapter organization. Its contributors use war and society methods: a holistic approach to understanding war and its consequences that incorporates the topics and techniques of a variety of historical subfields. Each chapter narrates a military campaign embedded in its strategic, political, and social context. Authors explore the consequences of a military c…
Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
The Fortenbaugh Lecture
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History
This roundtable discussion among War and Society historians places the American Civil War in a comparative military context. It suggests that the conflict between the Union and the Confederacy was an aberration in the broader military history of the United States and the world. Scholars consider citizenship, Black military service, masculinity, the evolution of the regular army, volunteer and conscript armies, the myth of the decisive battle, gue…
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