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.
The Kent State University Press invites letters of interest for the editorship of Civil War History, a quarterly journal committed to the best scholarship on “the middle period”—covering the entire scope of the American Civil War era, from the genesis of the sectional crisis through Reconstruction and beyond, highlighting the ramifications of warfare on society. […]
Mississippi “Milish”: Militiamen in the Civil War
by Tracy L. Barnett
Locating Patriotism in Civil War Songs
by James A. Davis
The Emergence of Conservatism as a Political Concept in the United States before the Civil War
by Adam I.P. Smith
“In an Evil Hour This Pandora’s Box of Slavery was Again Opened”: Emotional Partisan Divisions in the Late Antebellum Conservative North
by Matthew Mason
Stephen Douglas’s Enlightenment: Democracy, Race, and Rights in Civil War-Era Political Thought
by Joshua A. Lynn
“The Wisest Counsel of Conservatism”: Northern Democrats and the Politics of the Center, 1865-1868
by Erik B. Alexander
William McGovern has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2019. His study, “`City of Refuge’: Child Refugees and Soldiers’ Orphans in Civil War St Louis,” appeared in the December 2019 issue of Civil War History. The prize recipient was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award from The Kent State University Press.
Civil War Soldiers and Dreams of War
By Dillon J. Carroll
“A Region Which Will at the Same Time Delight and Disgust You”: Landscape Transformation and Changing Environmental Relationships in Civil War Washington, DC
By Nathan A. Marzoli
State of the Field Series
Roundtable: “Studying the Civil War from Abroad: Historiography’s Global and National Contexts”
A Crucial Leavening of Expertise: Engineer Soldiers and the Transmission of Military Proficiency in the American Civil War
By Mark A. Smith
“Victory’s Long Review”: The Grand Review of Union Armies and the Meaning of the Civil War
By Cecily N. Zander
STATE OF THE FIELD SERIES
The Politics of Continuity and Change in the Long Civil War Era
Rachel A. Shelden
City of Refuge: Child Refugees and Soldiers’ Orphans in Civil War St. Louis
William McGovern
The New Civil War Revisionism, Twenty Years Later: A Roundtable in Honor of Edward L. Ayers
with: Daniel W. Crofts, Tamika Nunley, Christopher Phillips, Matthew E. Stanley, Gregory P Downs and Edward L. Ayers
STATE OF THE FIELD SERIES
The Internet and Civil War Studies
by Earl J. Hess
“The Last and Most Precious Memento”: Photographic Portraiture and the Union Citizen-Soldier
by James Andrew Brookes
The History of the Tangier Difficulty: The American Civil War in Morocco
by Graham H. Cornwell
