Non-state actor interference in diplomacy: the American Colonization Society and the U.S. - Liberia relationship (1862-1878) by Barbara FRANCHI

“…Despite a majority of historians having explained that the ACS lost strength in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, it shows that this organization maintained an active relationship with Liberia and that it remained influential in the decade that followed the abolition of slavery. …”
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“In Honor, as in Limb, Unmarred”: Obsession with the “Whole” Body in Herman Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Vanessa Meikle Schulman

“…Mobilizing evidence from Melville’s letters as well as close readings of the poems, I argue that Melville presented a complicated relationship to questions of bodily wholeness and autonomy in his written work, particularly in response to the political and existential stresses of the U.S. Civil War. Melville conceptualized Battle-Pieces as a chronological archive intended to redeem a narrative of wholeness and overcome a perceived weakness or deficiency in the body politic. …”
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