Yael A Sternhell
Biographic Data
| ID | 983366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael A Sternhell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sternhell |
| SIGNATURE | STERNHELL Y A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Archive / An Archive
War on Record
War on Record
A history of the United States’ greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War Winner of the 2024 Tom Watson Brown Book Award • Shortlisted for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize The Civil War generated a vast archive of official records—documents that would shape the postwar era and determine what future generations would know about the war. Yael Sternhell traces these records from their creation during warti…
Looming Civil War
Reviewed by: Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future by Jason Phillips Yael A. Sternhell (bio) Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future. By Jason Phillips. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 336. Cloth, $34.95.) Looming Civil War takes on a highly protean and elusive question: how did mid-nineteenth-century Americans conceive of the future, and how did their conceptions sha…
The Thin Light of Freedom
The Thin Light of Freedom is the long-awaited sequel to Edward L. Ayers's Bancroft Prize–winning In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863 (2003). The book opens with the Confederate army's invasion of Pennsylvania in July 1863 and concludes with the return of Virginia into the Union in January 1870, reflecting the author's point that “Reconstruction was not the mere aftermath of the Civil War, but the culm…
Bodies in Motion and the Making of Emancipation
Emancipation figures in our imagination as an event of mythic proportions, a sea change splitting American history into two. Yet for enslaved Southerners, emancipation was first and foremost a complex lived experience, a daily reality that took multiple, shifting, and often contradictory forms. Slavery, a system encompassing millions of people, fell apart in thousands of different ways. Over the last few decades, historians have been able to reco…
The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive
The archive lies at the center of our work as historians. We spend months and years in its reading rooms, looking for elusive facts, arcane documents, and obscure stories. The archive defines and differentiates us from fellow humanists, gives credence to our claims for knowledge, and enshrouds our narratives with an aura of truth. Both real and romanticized, it is our place of labor and also an emblem of our craft. Yet how often do we stop to ask…
Confederate Visions
Journal Article Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War Get access Ian Binnington. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. xii, 198 pp. $39.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1275–1276, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav151 Published: 01 March 2015
Roads, Runaways and Recollections
I don't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by history. As this is such an elemental force in my life, I can't pretend that it had anything to do with books. It had to do with pictures.
Alfred C. Young III. Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign
Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study is an exceptionally narrow monograph, preoccupied with a single question: What was the strength of the Army of Northern Virginia during and after a series of battles that took place in Virginia in the late spring of 1864? The justification for devoting a 428-page book to this quandary, according to the author, is the absence of a reliable answer. The campaign is one of the least-studied e…
Revisionism Reinvented?
Revisionism Reinvented? The Antiwar Turn in Civil War Scholarship Yael A. Sternhell (bio) In a 1998 essay titled “Worrying about the Civil War,” Edward L. Ayers issued a call for a new Civil War revisionism, which would challenge the master narrative in both the scholarship and the public discourse on the sectional conflict. Ayers criticized contemporary historians for telling a story that was too clear, too linear, and too lacking in self-doubt,…
Communicating War
Journal Article Communicating War: The Culture of Information in Richmond during the American Civil War Get access Yael A. Sternhell Yael A. Sternhell Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 202, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 175–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtn022 Published: 25 February 2009
The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive
The archive lies at the center of our work as historians. We spend months and years in its reading rooms, looking for elusive facts, arcane documents, and obscure stories. The archive defines and differentiates us from fellow humanists, gives credence to our claims for knowledge, and enshrouds our narratives with an aura of truth. Both real and romanticized, it is our place of labor and also an emblem of our craft. Yet how often do we stop to ask…
Communicating War
Journal Article Communicating War: The Culture of Information in Richmond during the American Civil War Get access Yael A. Sternhell Yael A. Sternhell Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 202, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 175–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtn022 Published: 25 February 2009
Communicating War
Journal Article Communicating War: The Culture of Information in Richmond during the American Civil War Get access Yael A. Sternhell Yael A. Sternhell Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 202, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 175–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtn022 Published: 25 February 2009
Revisionism Reinvented?
Revisionism Reinvented? The Antiwar Turn in Civil War Scholarship Yael A. Sternhell (bio) In a 1998 essay titled “Worrying about the Civil War,” Edward L. Ayers issued a call for a new Civil War revisionism, which would challenge the master narrative in both the scholarship and the public discourse on the sectional conflict. Ayers criticized contemporary historians for telling a story that was too clear, too linear, and too lacking in self-doubt,…
Alfred C. Young III. Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign
Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study is an exceptionally narrow monograph, preoccupied with a single question: What was the strength of the Army of Northern Virginia during and after a series of battles that took place in Virginia in the late spring of 1864? The justification for devoting a 428-page book to this quandary, according to the author, is the absence of a reliable answer. The campaign is one of the least-studied e…
Confederate Visions
Journal Article Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War Get access Ian Binnington. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. xii, 198 pp. $39.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1275–1276, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav151 Published: 01 March 2015
Roads, Runaways and Recollections
I don't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by history. As this is such an elemental force in my life, I can't pretend that it had anything to do with books. It had to do with pictures.
Bodies in Motion and the Making of Emancipation
Emancipation figures in our imagination as an event of mythic proportions, a sea change splitting American history into two. Yet for enslaved Southerners, emancipation was first and foremost a complex lived experience, a daily reality that took multiple, shifting, and often contradictory forms. Slavery, a system encompassing millions of people, fell apart in thousands of different ways. Over the last few decades, historians have been able to reco…
The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive
The archive lies at the center of our work as historians. We spend months and years in its reading rooms, looking for elusive facts, arcane documents, and obscure stories. The archive defines and differentiates us from fellow humanists, gives credence to our claims for knowledge, and enshrouds our narratives with an aura of truth. Both real and romanticized, it is our place of labor and also an emblem of our craft. Yet how often do we stop to ask…
The Thin Light of Freedom
The Thin Light of Freedom is the long-awaited sequel to Edward L. Ayers's Bancroft Prize–winning In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863 (2003). The book opens with the Confederate army's invasion of Pennsylvania in July 1863 and concludes with the return of Virginia into the Union in January 1870, reflecting the author's point that “Reconstruction was not the mere aftermath of the Civil War, but the culm…
Looming Civil War
Reviewed by: Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future by Jason Phillips Yael A. Sternhell (bio) Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future. By Jason Phillips. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 336. Cloth, $34.95.) Looming Civil War takes on a highly protean and elusive question: how did mid-nineteenth-century Americans conceive of the future, and how did their conceptions sha…
War on Record
War on Record
A history of the United States’ greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War Winner of the 2024 Tom Watson Brown Book Award • Shortlisted for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize The Civil War generated a vast archive of official records—documents that would shape the postwar era and determine what future generations would know about the war. Yael Sternhell traces these records from their creation during warti…
The Archive / An Archive
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