Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to Views From the Dark Side of American History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011), a collection of six essays by Fellman, some of which had previous appeared as journal articles. Records include correspondence, publishing agreement, offprints, and paper and digital copies of the manuscript in multiple versions.

The digital copies of the manuscript are located in files 5, 6, and 8. No attempt has been made to analyze, compare, or reconcile versions. Version numbers (A-C) were assigned by the archivist based on date-modification timestamps. Print copies of the manuscript are also included among the paper files.

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Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to a research project and unpublished manuscript Fellman worked on in the late 1980s. Uneminent Victorians is a study of seven individuals "fallen from respectability" in Victorian England, drawing on British archival sources. Separate chapters deal with Charles Phillips, James Canham Read, Flora Davy, Comtessse de Civry, Captain Edmund Hope Verney, Alfred Linnell, and Adolf Beck. Records include Fellman's SSHRC proposal and reviewers' evaluations, correspondence, notes and working papers, copies of articles and images, photocopy and photo reproduction work orders, photographs, and the draft manuscript. The manuscript exists in several copies, including full typescripts as well as handwritten chapter drafts.

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Sub-sub-series consists of five digital manuscript versions of This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, a textbook on the American Civil War co-authored by Fellman, Lesley J. Gordon, and Daniel Sutherland. The first edition was published by Longman Publishers in 2002; second and third editions were subsequently released by Pearson in 2008 and 2015 respectively.

Manuscripts were assigned version numbers (A-E) by the archivist based on the date-modification timestamps of the files. No attempt has been made to analyze, compare, or reconcile the various versions. Based on Fellman's folder titles, Version A appears to be the manuscript of the first edition, while Versions B-E are iterations of the second edition.

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Sub-sub-series contains records relating to Fellman's first published book, The Unbound Flame: Freedom and Community in Nineteenth-Century American Utopianism (Greenwood Press: Westport CT, 1973). Records include a copy of the cover dust jacket (file 1) and a book review by Carl Guarneri that appeared in the journal Communal Societies, Vol. 5 (Fall 1985).

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Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to Fellman's book, The Making of Robert E. Lee (New York: Random House, 2000). Records include a digital copy of the manuscript (file 1), and paper files containing book publicity materials and a book review.

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Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to Fellman's third published work, Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989). Records include correspondence, a book review, and documentation relating to a copyright dispute in 2002 (use of Fellman's research by another without acknowledgement).

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Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to Fellman's book, In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). The project was initially called Twisting the Cross, then Twisting the Flag, before settling on the final title.

Records include paper and digital manuscript copies in multiple versions; correspondence, including exchanges with Fellman's literary agent, Sydelle Kramer, and various publishing houses; readers' reviews and reports; copies of articles, research materials, notes and working papers. There are seven digital versions of the manuscript, located in files 9, 13-18. No attempt has been made to analyze, compare, or reconcile versions. Version numbers (A-G) were assigned by the archivist based on date-modification timestamps. Print copies of the manuscript are also included among the paper files.

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Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to an unfinished novel Fellman began working on around 2010. The narrative is set out as The First Truthful Memoir of the Dirty Civil War by Robert Putnam (1913), edited by Michael Putnam, presented as a descendant of the narrator. Only four chapters survive. The records consist of digital copies of the manuscript in two versions. No attempt has been made to analyze, compare, or reconcile versions. Version numbers (A, B) were assigned by the archivist based on date-modification timestamps.

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Sub-sub-series contains records relating to Fellman's book Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (New York: Random House, 1995). The work was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1995, and it was finalist for the Lincoln Prize and Honorable Mention for the W.K. Ferguson Prize.

Records include correspondence with the publisher (Random House), editor (Robert Loomis), Fellman's literary agent (Bella Pomer), and others; contracts, notes and working papers, manuscript reviews, publicity material, and copies of book reviews that appeared in journals and media outlets. No manuscript is included among the records.

Files arranged chronologically.