Marketing The Dead of Antietam: Photographs of Death as a Cultural Commodity
By A. Maggie Hazzard

Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest
By Timothy Huebner

“A Dead Cock in the Pit”: Masculine Rivalry, Manhood, and Honor in the Civil War South
By Patrick Doyle

Conservative to the Last Degree: The Emerging Illinois Republican Party and the Election of 1856
By Ian Iverson

“We Are Now at Gettysburg”: Gender and Place in the Iowa Woman’s Relief Corps’ Monument to Jennie WadeBy
Lindsey R. Peterson

Roundtable Discussion on Deborah Willis’s The Black Soldier: The Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
moderated by Jim Downs, with participants David W. Blight, Cheryl Finley, Matthew Fox-Amato, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Nell Painter, Ann M. Shumard, and Deborah Willis

EDWARD VALENTIN JR. is a curator at the National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC. He received his bachelor of science in history from the United States Military Academy in 2010 and his doctorate in history from Rice University in May 2020. His work focuses on nineteenth-century US history and the experiences of Black soldiers in the US-Mexico borderlands during the post–Civil War era. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Black Men in Army Blue: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866–1900, under contract with the University of Virginia Press.

Prisoners with Undaunted Patriotism: Incarcerated Black Soldiers and Battles of Citizenship in Military Prisons during the Civil War
By Jonathan Lande

“Silent but Powerful Preachers”: Southern Religious Pamphlet Literature during the Civil War
By Josh Waddell

The Sexuality of Civil War Historiography: How Two Versions of Homosexuality Make Meaning of the War
By Andrew Donnelly

“We Need a Press—a Press of Our Own”: The Black Press beyond Abolition
by Jim Casey

The Collective Making of Frederick Douglass’ Paper
by Benjamin Fagan

Humor, Minstrelsy, and the Representation of African Americans in Macon’s Georgia Telegraph and Georgia Citizen, 1855–1860
by Rosalyn Narayan

“The Gold of the Pen and the Steel of the Sword”: The Unlikely and Fleeting Celebrity of Theodore Winthrop
by Timothy J. Williams

Juno’s Civil War: Black Knowledge and Racial Resolution in Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste
by Brigitte Fielder

Reading the Emancipation Proclamation: Viewing Race and Freedom during the Civil War Era
by Aston Gonzalez

Thavolia Glymph Roundtable
Moderated by Tamika Nunley, with participants Catherine Clinton, Crystal Feimster, Marisa Fuentes, Gary Gallagher, and Steven Hahn

Inventing White Supremacy: Race, Print Culture, and the Civil War Draft Riots
By Jonathan Daniel Wells

A Stumping Sucker: Reception of Abraham Lincoln in Massachusetts, September 11–13, 1848
By David Demaree

“I Love Country but I Love Family and Self Much Better”: The Emotional World of Civil War Family Men
John Patrick Riley

“You Are of Value Now”: Aeronauts Sought Professional Validation through the Military during the American Civil War
Richard D. Deverell

Egyptian Darkness: Antebellum Reconstruction, “Republicanization,” and Southern Illinois in the Republican Imagination, 1854–61
By Eric Michael Burke

Contending with the Elements: The Role of Weather in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
By Cameron M. Boutin

Elusive Victory:  The Union Navy’s War along the Western Waters
by Robert Gudmestad

Cannibals, Gorillas, and the Struggle over Radical Reconstruction
by Daniel P. Kilbride

Charleston, City of Mourners: Anticipations of Civil War in the Cradle of Secession
by Michael E. Woods

Local Knowledge: Black Texans, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Military Occupation in Reconstruction Texas
by Edward Valentin Jr.