Journal of the Civil War Era

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of the Civil War Era is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Editors' Note1
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)1
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (review)1
Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)1
Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women by Julia Nitz, and: Women’s Diaries from the Civil War South: A Literary-Historical Reading by Sharon Talley0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Contributors0
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
Editors Note0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later ed. by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis0
“I Dont Know what will be my Lot”: Transnational Migration and Unfree Labor in Early America0
Proving Disloyalty: Enslaved People and Resistance in Missouri’s Guerrilla Households0
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard (review)0
Happy Dreams of Liberty0
Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael J. Turner0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
New Perspectives on Civil War–Era Kentucky ed. by John David Smith (review)0
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (review)0
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)0
Books Received0
Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Reconstruction0
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community by Vanessa M. Holden0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)0
The Union's Culture Industry0
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus0
Tracing the Intimate Histories of Poor Black Women in the Late-Nineteenth-Century US South0
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White (review)0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius (review)0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
Insiders, Outsiders: Toward a New History of Southern Thought ed. by Sarah E. Gardner and Steven M. Stowe0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III0
The "Bull-Dog" in Istanbul: James Longstreet's Revealing Tour as US Minister to Turkey, 1880–810
A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
Chaos and Conquest: The Civil War and Indigenous Crisis on the Upper Missouri, 1861–18650
The Constant Recurrence of Such Atrocities: Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency during the Mexican-American War0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)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 Cla0
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner0
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19–22, 1863 by Earl J. Hess, and: Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies by Earl J. Hess0
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by P. Gabrielle Foreman et al.0
Contributors0
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens (review)0
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)0
Editors’ Note0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement by Paul J. Polgar0
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past by Ana Lucia Araujo0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz (review)0
Studying Slavery on Campus: Research, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement0
Disability in the Civil War Era0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher’s Climb to Freedom by Larry Eugene Rivers, and: No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner by Andre E. Johnson0
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
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull (review)0
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Contributors0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
Books Received0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History0
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War0
The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
A New History of the American South ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (review)0
Guerilla Women And Men In Silk Dresses: Diplomacy and Orientalism during the 1860 Japanese Mission0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson0
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
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Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 by Jeff Strickland0
In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew by Stephen D. Engle (review)0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
Books Received0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
Books Received0
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Dale W. Tomich et al.0
Editors Note0
Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West by Cameron Blevins0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)0
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920 by Manisha Sinha (review)0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page0
The Union Blockade in the American Civil War: A Reassessment by Michael Brem Bonner and Peter McCord0
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 S0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
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 Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Kevin Kenny (review)0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright0
Books Received0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
Books Received0
Editors Note0
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry (review)0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
Editors' Note0
The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr (review)0
Lieber and Clausewitz: The Understanding of Modern War and the Theoretical Origins of General Orders No. 1000
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The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell (review)0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War ed. by Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess (review)0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
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
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
The "Colored American Asiatic Traveler": Peter K. L. Cole and American Empire in Japan0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America by Felicity M. Turner (review)0
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher0
Printed Communities: Race, Respectability, and Black Newspapers in the Civil War Era West0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Kent Masterson Brown0
Editors’ Note0
Contributors0
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)0
Editors' Note0
Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State by Brian McGinty (review)0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)0
Books Received0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J. J. Payne (review)0
"Prophecies of Loss": Debating Slave Flight during Virginia's Secession Crisis0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
Scouting for the Bluecoats: Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911 by Robert S. McPherson (review)0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
Books Received0
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity by Bradley R. Clampitt (review)0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
Staying in Place: Southern Methodists, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, and Postwar Battles for Control of Church Property0
Editors' Note0
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote0
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Contributors0
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States by Leslie M. Alexander (review)0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. Mendelsohn (review)0
Books Received0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)0
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Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
Partial Portraits: African Americans in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)0
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder0
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang0
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (review)0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward ed. by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 ed. by Roseann Bacha-Garza et al.0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940 by Élodie Edwards-Grossi (review)0
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Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
Books Received0
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones (review)0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (review)0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess (review)0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
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Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
The International Dimension of Freedom: Revisiting Black Grassroots Activism during US Reconstruction0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster0
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron0
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