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Ben Wright
@benjamingwright
Historian @UT_Dallas | author Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited Am Abolitionism (2020) | editor American Yawp | Cheesehead | Spring-Nut
Dec 30, 2019 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
I've learned a lot from @CivilWarMonitor, but it's disappointing that the five (all men) historians named 14 male authors and no women in their best of 2019 review.

So, here's a (too) short thread of some of my favorite Civil War histories by women. Add to this #twitterstorians The best Civil War book I read in 2019 was @amurrelltaylor's Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. If you don't believe me, it won damn near every prize possible: uncpress.org/book/978146964…