Great Excitement Prevails: The American Lynching Myth
Kathryn Lofton
Saving the Republic, Sinking the Republicans: Unraveling the Anomalous 1862 Midterms and Their Consequences
Richard Edwards
Generative AI and Civil War Primary Sources: A Methodology Experiment
Julie Mujic
Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South
Elizabeth Maeve Barnes
One Soldier in Two Armies: The Ambivalent Confederate Nationalism and Curated Memory of a Yeoman Rebel and Galvanized Yankee
Gary T. Edwards
An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Robin Bernstein’s Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit: A Roundtable
Moderator: Jim Downs; Participants: Evan Kutzler, Jonathan Lande, Koritha Mitchell, Heather Ann Thompson, Crystal Webster, and Jonathan Wells
The Massacre at Marks’s Mills: How Confederates Murdered “Near 30” Black Refugees and Reenslaved 150 Others
Cormac Broeg
John Mitchell and His Critics: Transatlantic Abolition and the Irish American Response to Slavery in the 1850s
Robert O’Sullivan
Black Geographies, White Anxieties: Maroons, Population Control, and Resource Competition in the Antebellum US South
K. Howell Keiser Jr.
TIMOTHY S. HUEBNER is the winner of the 2024 John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History in the past year. Huebner’s “Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest” is a masterpiece of scholarship that provides a definitive account of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s slave trading business before the Civil War and how and why he and his apologists tried so hard to downplay it for decades after. Huebner’s exhaustively researched and richly textured account reveals Forrest to have been an aggressive, large-scale trafficker in human beings whose Memphis operations in the 1850s expanded to among the largest and most lucrative in the South. Piecing together fragments of evidence about Forrest’s slave dealing, including from descendants of those he trafficked, Huebner’s research located the sites of Forrest’s operations in Memphis and led to a wider reckoning with this history in the city.
“What a Piece of Work Is Man”: Human Dignity in The Killer Angels on Its Fiftieth Anniversary
Christina K. Adkins
“I Shall Forward to You My Contraband”: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive
Marcy S. Sacks
Guest Editor’s Overview: Have Civil War Historians Lost Labor History?
Matthew E. Stanley
Contesting “the Insatiable Maw of Capital”: Mine Workers’ Struggles in the Civil War Era
Rosemary Feurer
“We Can Take Care of Ourselves Now”: Establishing Independent Black
Labor and Industry in Postwar Yorktown, Virginia
Rebecca Capobianco Toy
White Supremacy and Fraud: The “Abolitionist” Work of Henry Frisbie
William Horne
The Open-Shop Movement and the Long Shadow of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
Chad E. Pearson
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?” Roundtable on the Cultural Legacy of Eric W. Lott’s Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class on Its Thirtieth Anniversary
Moderator: Rhae Lynn Barnes Participants: Daphne A. Brooks, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Scott Gac, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Josephine Lee, and David R. Roediger
The Human Sacrifice: The Trial of Lucy Bagby and the Secession Crisis
Daniel W. Sunshine
The Refugee Crisis of Sherman’s March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands
By Bennett Parten
“Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel”: White-on-White Sectional Violence and the “Long” Bleeding Kansas
By Brent M. S. Campney
“Does the Civil War Matter?”: A Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Jim Downs; Participants: Yoni Appelbaum, Drew Gilpin Faust, Kerri K. Greenidge, Stephanie McCurry, Megan Kate Nelson, and Adam I. P. Smith
The Refugee Crisis of Sherman’s March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands
By Bennett Parten
“Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel”: White-on-White Sectional Violence and the “Long” Bleeding Kansas
By Brent M. S. Campney
“Does the Civil War Matter?”: A Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Jim Downs; Participants: Yoni Appelbaum, Drew Gilpin Faust, Kerri K. Greenidge, Stephanie McCurry, Megan Kate Nelson, and Adam I. P. Smith
The “First” Emancipation Proclamation: Black Rebellion, Removal, and Freedom during the Seminole Wars
By Kristen T. Oertel
“Portraits Torn to Shreds”: Iconoclasm and the Destruction of Confederate Memory
By Matthew Fox-Amato
Novels as Archive: A Roundtable on Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 Novel, Iola Leroy, about the Civil War and Reconstruction
Editor and Moderator: Jim Downs; Participants: Rhae Lynn Barnes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Rashauna Johnson, and John Stauffer, with Faith Smith and Nii Ayikwei Parkes
