1. The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
by Adam Arenson (Harvard Univ Pr, 2011).I liked Louis Gerteis's Civil War St. Louis, and, while both books appear superficially similar in their focus on society and politics, Arenson's new study takes a broader and more long term view at the importance of St. Louis to 19th century cultural change in America.
2. An Iowa Soldier Writes Home: The Civil War Letters of Union Private Daniel J. Parvin
edited by Phillip A. Hubbart (Carolina Academic Pr, 2011).This book is an edited collection of 117 letters from a private in the 11th Iowa. Parvin fought first in Missouri in 1861-62 before heading to the western theater and the battlefields of Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Atlanta. Editor Phillip Hubbart bucks tradition, organizing the material thematically rather than chronologically. I am curious to see how well the method works in practice.
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