HISTORIANS’ FORUM: THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD AND THE ONSET OF THE SECESSION CRISIS
By Michael Robinson

SUMNER AND FRENCH AT ANTIETAM
By Marion V. Armstrong

REVISITING CLASSIC CIVIL WAR BOOKS: “WHY GONE WITH THE WIND STILL MATTERS; OR, WHY I STILL LOVE GONE WITH THE WIND
By Anne Sarah Rubin

“It is Time for the States to Speak to the Federal Government”: The Altoona Conference and Emancipation

A Politics of Service: Black Northerners’ Debates over Enlistment in the American Civil War

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Review Essay: From Battlefield to Fertile Ground: The Development of Civil War Environmental History
By Lisa M. Brady
In the ten years since Jack Temple Kirby urged scholars to unite Civil War and environmental histories, small but growing number of historians have heeded his clarion call to action. This historiographical review provides some basic definitions and […]

The American Civil War’s Centennial vs. the Sesquicentennial

Civil War History preview June 2012, Vol. 58, No. 2

“The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Fashion of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri,” by Joseph M. Beilein Jr

“War in Earnest: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Union War Effort, 1862,” by John Matsui

“A Canadian Yankee in King Cotton’s Court,” edited by Marc-William Palen

Wars for the American South: The First and Second Reconstructions Considered as Insurgencies
By Mark Grimsley

Virginia’s Embattled Textbooks: Lessons (Learned and Not) from the Centennial Era
By Carol Sheriff

Assuring Freedom to the Free: Jefferson’s Declaration and the Conflict over Slavery
By Jeremy J. Tewell

A CENSUS-BASED COUNT OF THE CIVIL WAR DEAD
By J. David Hacker

CONDITIONAL CONFEDERATES: ABSENTEEISM IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS, 1861-1865
By Scott King-Owen

The First Battle of Bull Run
“All of this McDowell knew, but the impassioned patriots who from a safe distance were providing the pressure for the great march on Richmond neither knew nor cared about any of it.  They wanted action; action was ordered, and on the afternoon of July 16 McDowell hauled his regiments out […]