He is the author of “Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman” (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). His next book, “Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln” is scheduled for publication in Spring 2014. This is Dr. White’s third appearance at the Library having previously spoken in June 2011 on the “Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Ex Parte Merryman" and in May 2012 on "The Peculiarly Insignificant Role of the Supreme Court in the Civil War." (See “The Strangely Insignificant Role of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War,” Journal of the Civil War Era (June 2013), 211-238).