Kent T. Dollar, assistant professor of history at Tennessee Technological University, is the author of Soldiers of the Cross: Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on their Faith. Larry H. Whiteaker, professor emeritus of history at Tennessee Technological University, is the author of The Individual and Society in America. W. Calvin Dickinson, professor emeritus of history at Tennessee Technological University, is the coauthor of Tennessee Tales the Textbooks Don't Tell.
""The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee will appeal to all who
hold an interest in the history of the Civil War and its effects,
and especially to readers from the two states under examination. It
will remain current as long as that interest lasts."--Charles P.
Roland, Alumni Professor of History Emeritus, University of
Kentucky" --
""This outstanding collection of essays offers a rich and
comprehensive picture of the experience of Tennesseans and
Kentuckians during the tumultuous 1860s. Readers will find it not
only wonderfully informative, but also fascinating." -- Stephen V.
Ash, author of A Year in the South: 1865" --
"A personal and very readable book that increases our understanding
of everyday life during an extraordinary event." -- TOCWOC blog
"A very good book on the life of the two states during the Civil
War, and particularly on the dynamics of secession." -- Strategy
Page
"All in all, this is great tour-de-force for those interested in
Kentucky and Tennessee history or in the political and social
values that impacted those living in 1860 and continue to shape
America today." -- Journal of America's Military Past
"Anyone interested in Kentucky and Tennessee in the Civil War era
will enjoy this book. The editors have done a superb job of
recruiting authors and assembling good, in some cases outstanding,
essays." -- Journal of American History
"Civil War-era scholars and enthusiasts alike will find the
original essays covering an often overlooked region a delight, and
the historical community at large will benefit from the social,
economic, and political perspectives offered by this well-edited
volume." -- Arkansas Review
"Comprised of a good mix of familiar and fresh subjects and
analyses penned by specialist scholars well selected for the task,
this is an important contribution to the western theater Civil War
literature." -- Civil War Books and Authors
"S ister States, Enemy States is recommended to those interested in
the Civil War, Tennessee and Kentucky." -- Oklahoman
"Students who are interested in the field can gain a great deal of
information in a concise manner that will serve as a springboard
for further research. It is perhaps this that is the greatest
contribution of the book. It is a must-have work for students and
scholars of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Western
Theater." -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"The essays in Sister States, Enemy States persuasively demonstrate
that the Civil War was fought not among well-defined classes in the
East, but inside the households and farmsteads of the economically
hybrid western Upper South. This volume is a must for anyone
interested in East Tennessee and in the Civil War in general." --
Journal of East Tennessee History
"This book will be worthwhile for anyone interested in the wartime
experiences of Kentucky and Tennessee, but it will be of special
interest to those who had ancestors living here during that time."
-- Kentucky Ancestors
"This collection brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars
on the Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee. It sheds much new light
on a region that -- while recognized as critically significant
during the mid-nineteenth century -- is often overlooked in the
historiography." -- Journal of Southern History
"Though the two adjacent states share the same historical roots and
cultures, the Civil War constituted a break that could not be more
profound, as Tennessee joined the Confederacy and Kentucky joined
the Union." -- Book News
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