“THE FIRST SECESSIONIST WAS SATAN”: SECESSION AND THE POLITICS OF HELL IN CIVIL WAR AMERICA
By: Edward J. Blum

“WE ARE A BAND OF BROTHERS”: MANHOOD AND COMMUNITY IN CONFEDERATE CAMPS AND BEYOND
By: James J. Broomall

Film Roundtable: 12 Years a Slave

MARKED BY WAR: DEMOBILIZATION, DISABILITY, AND THE TROPE OF THE CITIZEN-SOLDIER IN MISS RAVENEL’S CONVERSION
By: John Casey

“LET THE EMPIRE COME”: IMPERIALISM AND ITS CRITICS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION SOUTH
By: Andrew Heath

“LET US HEAR NO MORE ‘NATIVISM'”: THE CATHOLIC PRESS IN THE MEXICAN AND CIVIL WARS
By: William B. KURTZ

PATHS TO RECONCILIATION: NORTHERN SECTIONAL ROMANCES OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA
By: Megan L. Bever

TWO HARRYS AND “A MOST INTERESTING STORY”: A DOCUMENT OF NOTE
By: Ethan S. Rafuse

DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN, THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE IDEA OF THE SOUTH
By: Keith Dickson

A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN
By: Bruce Tap

REFLECTIONS ON “THE TRAUMA OF WAR” AND SHOOK OVER HELL
By: Eric T. Dean Jr.

DIFFICULT HUNTING: ACCESSING CONNECTICUT PATIENT RECORDS TO LEARN ABOUT POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER DURING THE CIVIL WAR
By: Matthew Warshauer and Michael Sturges

“A BURDEN TOO HEAVY TO BEAR”: WAR TRAUMA, SUICIDE, AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
By: Diane Miller Sommerville

“COWARDICE WEAKNESS OR INFIRMITY, WHICHEVER IT MAY BE TERMED”: A SHADOW HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
By: Christopher Walsh

NATIONS COLLIDING: THE CIVIL WAR COMES TO INDIAN TERRITORY
By: Troy Smith

PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICA AND BRITISH REFORM DURING THE 1860s
By: Michael J. Turner

Film Roundtable: Lincoln

HOW TO REMEMBER “THIS DAMNABLE GUERRILLA WARFARE”: FOUR VIGNETTES FROM CIVIL WAR MISSOURI

By Matthew C. Hulbert

CROSSING FREEDOM’S FAULT LINE: SPACE, LAW, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, AND CIVIL WAR CAUSALITY

By Scott Hancock

THE “TROUBLOUS TIMES” OF 1860-1861: A MEMOIR BY COLONEL RICHARD IRVING DODGE, U.S. ARMY

By Wayne Kime, Editor

HISTORIANS’ FORUM: THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD AND THE ONSET OF THE SECESSION CRISIS
By Michael Robinson

SUMNER AND FRENCH AT ANTIETAM
By Marion V. Armstrong

REVISITING CLASSIC CIVIL WAR BOOKS: “WHY GONE WITH THE WIND STILL MATTERS; OR, WHY I STILL LOVE GONE WITH THE WIND
By Anne Sarah Rubin

“It is Time for the States to Speak to the Federal Government”: The Altoona Conference and Emancipation

A Politics of Service: Black Northerners’ Debates over Enlistment in the American Civil War

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Review Essay: From Battlefield to Fertile Ground: The Development of Civil War Environmental History
By Lisa M. Brady
In the ten years since Jack Temple Kirby urged scholars to unite Civil War and environmental histories, small but growing number of historians have heeded his clarion call to action. This historiographical review provides some basic definitions and […]

Civil War History preview June 2012, Vol. 58, No. 2

“The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Fashion of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri,” by Joseph M. Beilein Jr

“War in Earnest: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Union War Effort, 1862,” by John Matsui

“A Canadian Yankee in King Cotton’s Court,” edited by Marc-William Palen