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
Zachery A. Fry has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2018. His study, “McClellan’s Epidemic: Disease and Discord at Harrison’s Landing, July-August 1862,” appeared in the March 2018 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.
STATE OF THE FIELD SERIES
Slavery, Capitalism, and the Interpretations of the Antebellum United States: The Problem of Definition
by James L. Huston
“A General Concurrence in the Propriety of the Repeal”: Male Friendship, Party, and Section in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
by Thomas J. Balcerski
“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
