Alumni Publications Daniel J. Burge A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 David Durham A Southern Moderate in Radical Times Mark A. Smith A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, US Engineer Battalion M. Ryan Floyd Abandoning American Neutrality Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915 Megan L. Bever At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War Christian McWhirter Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War Blake Scott Ball Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts Adam L. Tate Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society R. Volney Riser Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 Mark A. Smith Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815-1861 Salvatore R. Mercogliano Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War Wesley B. Borucki George H. W. Bush: In Defense of Principle Marcus M. Witcher Getting Right with Reagan The Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980-2016 Stephen Schwab Guantánamo, USA William N. Still, Jr. Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads William C. Harris Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union William C. Harris Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency Robert M. Browning Jr. Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War Charity Carney Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South Kristopher A. Teters Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War John C. Mitcham Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870–1914 W. Eric Emerson Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War Rebecca Cawood McIntyre Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology Wade G. Dudley Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815 Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd The American South and the Great War, 1914-1924 Adam Petty The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory: Reconsidering Virginia’s Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield Stephen McCullough The Caribbean Policy of the Ulysses S. Grant Administration: Foreshadowing an Informal Empire Charles Kenneth Roberts The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South Mark Ryland Folse The Globe and Anchor Men: U.S. Marines and American Manhood in the Great War Era George M. Lauderbaugh The History of Ecuador Glenn Brasher The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation Joseph W. Pearson The Whigs’ America: Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay Angela Jill Cooley To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South Matthew L. Downs Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960 William C. Harris Two against Lincoln: Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition Joseph Danielson War’s Desolating Scourge: The Union’s Occupation of North Alabama William C. Harris With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union Colin B. Chapell Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South