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German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era by Alison Clark Efford (review)

90 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY and editors. Engaging recent scholarship, he finds that dissenters presented a real threat to the war effort, but argues that the Republicans also used that threat opportunistically to their political advantage, timing their attacks to help win elections. Authorities trampled on civil liberties and violated the rights of those whose opposition might have presented Midwesterners with political alternative. Union Heartland breaks new interpretative ground and raises many questions for further research. With so much more to do, future studies will likely challenge or change many of the arguments presented here. But to the authors’ and editors’ credit this book leaves one wanting more. A. James Fuller University of Indianapolis