Journal of the Civil War Era

Article	Citations
Editors' Note	4
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse	2
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney	1
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (review)	1
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (review)	1
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War	1
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)	1
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World ed. by Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene, and; Beacons of Liberty: International Free S	1
A New History of the American South ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (review)	1
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)	1
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation	0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)	0
Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking by Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli (review)	0
The Union's Culture Industry	0
Contributors	0
Books Received	0
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)	0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs	0
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park (review)	0
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)	0
Trunks, Legal Texts, and the Materiality of Law in the Nineteenth Century	0
Contributors	0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine	0
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)	0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius	0

Editors Note	0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler	0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley	0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer	0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)	0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran	0
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis by Brian C. Neumann, and: True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Cla	0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)	0
The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era by Cecily N. Zander (review)	0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)	0
The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895 by John R. Lundberg (review)	0
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye (review)	0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)	0
Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)	0
Higher Laws, Racial (In)Equality, and Democratic Violence: Theodore Parker's Abolitionist Theology	0
Racist Slurs and Precarious Freedoms: Seeking Legal Redress in Brazil’s Coffee Belt	0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)	0
In 2025, an Echo of the 1800s: The Fight for Black Citizenship in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations	0
Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865 by Ian Delahanty (review)	0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)	0
Books Received	0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson	0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory	0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley	0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)	0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo	0
Books Received	0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)	0
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico: Livestock, Land, and Dollars by Jon M. Wallace (review)	0
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 by Alan Taylor (review)	0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal	0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation	0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)	0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–1865	0
Survival with Sanity: Sarah Cook, Black Optimistic Realist	0
The Current Situation of 2025: Thoughts on Media, the Public Sphere, and Education	0
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire by Raymond Jonas (review)	0
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)	0
Editors' Note	0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox	0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)	0
Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census by Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards (review)	0
Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design ed. by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (review)	0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–1914	0
Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III (review)	0
Contributors	0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters	0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher	0
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)	0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel	0

The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox	0
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui	0
Contributors	0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)	0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer	0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III	0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)	0
Confederate Privateer: The Life of John Yates Beall . by William C. Harris (review)	0
Contributors	0
Chaos and Conquest: The Civil War and Indigenous Crisis on the Upper Missouri, 1861–1865	0
Trauma, Trauma Everywhere: Race, Violence, and Pathology in the Study of American Slavery	0
Books Received	0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)	0
A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South by Maria Angela Diaz (review)	0
Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois by Larry A. McClellan (review)	0
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin (review)	0
Contributors	0
A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)	0
Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–1882	0
Disability in the Civil War Era	0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards (review)	0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland	0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)	0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby	0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography	0
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History	0
Time and Place, Time and Chance	0
Enlarged by Caucus and Compromise”: Freethinkers, Celebrity Preachers, and the American Anti-Slavery Society	0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory	0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts	0
Mobilization, Merit, and the Struggle for Rights in the Pardo Regiment of Rio de Janeiro (1798–1831)	0
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)	0
Contributors	0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)	0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley	0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller	0
A-Mouldering in Our Graves?	0
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)	0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe	0
The Colfax County War: Violence and Corruption in Territorial New Mexico by Corey Recko (review)	0
Editors’ Note	0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)	0
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin	0
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz (review)	0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)	0
Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry (review)	0
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens (review)	0
Habits of Mind: How History Teaches Humility	0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough	0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)	0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College	0
Books Received	0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now	0
Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)	0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)	0
Editors' Note	0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)	0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault	0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi	0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)	0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones	0
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig (review)	0
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (review)	0
The Archive / An Archive	0
Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by James M. Bradley (review)	0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens	0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization	0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch	0
After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia ed. by Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglas (review)	0
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade by Jonathan W. White (review)	0
Reconstruction and the Regulation of Sexuality	0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)	0
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (review)	0
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)	0
Editors Note	0
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines M. Foster (review)	0
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)	0
Books Received	0
Empathy, Humility, and Good Faith: Studying History in Times of Crisis	0
Fighting Against Land Dispossession: Indigenous Power, Legal Activism, and Race in Brazil (Maranhão, c. 1750–1830)	0

Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough	0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki	0
Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)	0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)	0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)	0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon	0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)	0
Parodic Exaggeration, Transparent Lying, and Conspiracy Thinking in US History	0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)	0
Contributors	0
"Home-Builders": Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union Civil War Commemorations	0
Exceptional Times	0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)	0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite	0
Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon C. Eaves (review)	0
Contributors	0
Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront by Rachel Williams (review)	0
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson (review)	0
The Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation by Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor (review)	0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)	0
The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 ed. by Hilary N. Green and Andrew L. Slap (review)	0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities	0
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War by Mark A. Graber (review)	0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)	0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)	0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley	0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas	0
America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll (review)	0
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)	0
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J. J. Payne (review)	0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai	0
The Specter of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Today	0
Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)	0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster	0
The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (review)	0
Old Age and American Slavery by David Stefan Doddington (review)	0
War Objects: Material Culture and New Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America	0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–1904	0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)	0
Books Received	0
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)	0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)	0
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)	0
"Soldiers Were Apt to Get Drunk Whenever They Got a Chance": The Control of Alcohol in Wartime Washington, DC, 1861–1865	0
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser	0
The State, Unfreedom, and Emancipation in the Western Borderlands, a Roundtable	0
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart (review)	0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)	0
Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance by Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown (review)	0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)	0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation	0
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History	0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss	0
African American State Volunteers in the New South: Race, Masculinity, and the Militia in Georgia, Texas, and Virginia, 1871–1906 by John Patrick Blair (review)	0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)	0
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era	0
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)	0
Books Received	0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan	0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers	0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler	0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)	0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)	0
Books Received	0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era	0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)	0
The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State by Elizabeth Garner Masarik (review)	0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney	0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)	0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter	0
The Civil War's Unfinished Business	0
North Carolina Troops, 1861–1865: A Roster. Vol. 22, Confederate States Navy, Confederate States Marine Corps, and Charlotte Naval Yard ed. by Katelynn A. Hatton and Alex Christopher Meekins (review)	0
Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark (review)	0
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (review)	0
Storytelling, Digital Archives, and Black Women's Reproductive History in Real Time	0
Contributors	0
A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty by Michael P. Zuckert (review)	0
Contributors	0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley	0
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1–17, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)	0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America	0
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South	0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)	0
Beyond Freedom: Stolen Back Wages and Radical Popular Abolitionism in Brazil	0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)	0
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era	0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)	0
Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South by F. Evan Nooe (review)	0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (review)	0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker	0
The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher ed. by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean (review)	0
Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson	0
Contributors	0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay	0
Lessons From My Grandfather's FBI File	0