“They Cannot Expect …That a Loyal People Will Tolerate the Utterance of Such Sentiments”:  The Campaign against Treasonous Speech during the Civil War
by Julie Roy Jeffrey

This essay explores northern attempts to stamp out “treasonous” speech during the Civil War.  The voluminous case files of Levi C. Turner, Associate Judge Advocate for the Army, and Lafayette C. Baker, special Provost Marshal, two officials at the heart of the effort to suppress subversion, supplemented by newspaper accounts, provide detailed evidence of the workings of the federal program to quell dissent outside the usual procedures of civil law…

Confederate Imaginations with the Federals in the Postwar Order
by Adrian Brettle

Scholarship on the attempts by Confederate government officials to negotiate with the United States during the last year of the war tends to fall into two categories. Some historians chart the increasingly desperate attempts to modify the terms of inevitable reunion and emancipation…

Buchanan’s Mormon Judge: Delana Eckels and the Democratic Party in the Utah War
by Nicole Etcheson

Famous for their platform’s ringing denunciation of polygamy as one of the “twin relics of barbarism,” the Republican party took a strong stand against Mormonism…

Rehearsing for the Great Debate of 1850:  The Controversy over Seating Father Theobald Mathew on the Floor of the Senate
by Stephen E. Maizlish

In December of 1849, as the debate in Congress over the Compromise of 1850 was about to begin, the Senate confronted the seemingly innocent question of granting Irish temperance reformer Father Theobald Mathew the honor of sitting on the floor of the Senate…

Adam H. Domby has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2017. His study, “Captives of Memory:  Contested Legacy of Race at Andersonville National Historic Site,” Civil War History (September 2017), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award from The Kent State University Press.

Lincoln and His Biographers
by: Allen Carl Guelzo

Our Yankee:  The Uncertain Fate of Northern Teachers in the Seceded South
by: Michael T. Bernath

The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory:  Historiography and Prospects for New Directions in Research
by: Bradley R. Clampitt

In the Midst of Fire and Blood:  Union Soldiers, Unionist Women, Military Policy, and Intimate Space in the American Civil War
by: Laura Mammina

Robert Penn Warren, Wendell Berry, and the Dark Side of Civil War History
by:  Mitchell G. Klingenberg

McClellan’s Epidemic:  Disease and Discord at Harrison’s Landing, July-August 1862
by: Zachery A. Fry

More Than Paper and Ink:  Confederate Medical Literature and the Making of the Confederate Army Medical Corps
by: Lindsay Rae Privette

Escaping the Mechanism: Soldier Fraternization during the Siege at Petersburg
Lauren K. Thompson

The Early Indicators Project: Using Massive Data and Statistical Analysis to Understand the Life Cycle of Civil War Soldiers
Earl J. Hess

Paternalism and Imprisonment at Castle Thunder: Reinforcing Gender Norms in the Confederate Capital
by: Angela M. Zombek

Captives of Memory: The Contested Legacy of Race at Andersonville National Historic Site
by: Adam H. Domby

William G. Thomas III, Kaci Nash, and Robert Shepard have won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2016.  Their study, “Places of Exchange:  An Analysis of Human and Materiél Flows in Civil War Alexandria, Virginia,” Civil War History (December 2016), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board.  The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award from The Kent State University Press.

Tracing the “Sacred Relics”: The Strange Career of Preston Brooks’s Cane
by: Michael E. Woods

The Dress of the Enemy: Clothing and Disease in the Civil War Era
by: Sarah Jones Weicksel

Vacationing with the Civil War: Maine’s Regimental Summer Cottages
by: C. Ian Stevenson