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Like other ""dark turn"" interpretations of the Civil War, Pinheiro's examination of African American families' day-to-day lives underlines their incredible resilience as they confronted and battled the consequences of systemic racism. Pinherio's clear and compelling writing, as well as his thorough yet readable use of existing scholarship, makes this work appropriate and illuminating for scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and general audiences alike.--Caroline Wood Newhall ""Journal of African American History"" Across each of these chapters Pinheiro highlights how racial discrimination affected families, from depriving them of early enlistment bounties to exposing them to humiliating interrogations about intimate matters. Pinheiro mines pension applications to offer vivid glimpses of how the costs of service--from delayed wages to permanent disabilities--compounded over the decades for some families...Beyond this valuable work of recovery and recentering, the book contributes to a larger scholarly reassessment of the Civil War's liberatory impact.--Catherine A. Jones ""Journal of Southern History"" With diligent work in census data, military service records, pension files, and local newspapers, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr., has ably recovered the experiences of Philadelphia's working-class Black soldiers and their families before, during, and after the Civil War. A fine book, The Families' Civil War enhances our understanding of the war's lived consequences in general--and the African American military experience in particular.--Brian Matthew Jordan ""The Civil War Monitor"" The Families' Civil War is a very fine piece of scholarship that tells the story of people too little investigated by historians. The research is first-rate, and the stories recalled to life here are important, illuminating, and, sadly, too often tragic.--Douglas Egerton ""author of Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America""

The Families' Civil War is a very fine piece of scholarship that tells the story of people too little investigated by historians. The research is first-rate, and the stories recalled to life here are important, illuminating, and, sadly, too often tragic.--Douglas Egerton author of Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America

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HOLLY A. PINHEIRO JR. is an assistant professor of African American history at Furman University. He is the author of articles in American Nineteenth Century History, the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives blog, and the Journal of the Civil War Era's Muster blog.

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