CORMAC BROEG is an attorney and writer, with a JD from the University of Iowa. He served as a law clerk to Judge Kenneth F. Ripple of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Magistrate Judge Margaret J. Schneider of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Cormac is currentlyin private practice.

DIANE MUTTI BURKE is professor and chair of history and director of the Center for Midwestern Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

ANNE STRACHAN CROSS is an art historian at Penn State, specializing in American art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on the histories of photography and the material culture of illustrated newspapers and magazines.

J. MATTHEW GALLMAN is the author of a number of books on the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the American Civil War.

K. HOWELL KEISER JR. is a postdoctoral fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is an American historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century US history. His current book project explores how the political economies of Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo shaped Southern thought and action during the sectional crisis. Keiser earned his PhD from Louisiana State University in 2024.

JONATHAN NOYALAS is director of the McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University. He has authored several books, most recently The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah: The 1864 Valley Campaign’s Battle of Cool Spring, July 17–18, 1864 (2024).

ROBERT O’SULLIVAN is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University and a member of Sidney Sussex College. His work examines the history of Irish American newspaper editors and their reporting on European imperialism and revolutionary nationalism, 1840–65, and the role of international comparisons on the formulation of Irish American ethnicity and on Irish American understanding of American domestic developments in the antebellum and Civil War eras. He published has articles in the Journal of American Ethnic History, Pennsylvania History, and Éire-Ireland.

TIMOTHY J. WILLIAMS is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. His research interests include cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth century.

Book Reviews

This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations, by Whitney Nell Stewart
Reviewed by Ann Strachan Cross

Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America, by Leslie A. Schwalm
Reviewed by Diane Mutti Burke

The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher, edited by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Reviewed by J. Matthew Gallman

The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939, by Shae Smith Cox
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Noyalas

War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War, by Yael A. Sternhell
Reviewed by Timothy J. Williams