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Papers

(The median citation count of Civil War History 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contributors	2
John Mitchel and His Critics: Transatlantic Abolition and the Irish American Response to Slavery in the 1850s	1
Book Review Essay: After War and Emancipation, an Irrepressible Conflict	0
Editor’s Overview	0
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)	0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)	0
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder (review)	0
Contributors	0
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)	0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll	0
The Donaldsonville March of 1870: A Case Study in Black Militias’ Use of Force to Combat Insurrectionists in the Reconstruction South	0
The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas by Carl H. Moneyhon (review)	0
"We Can Take Care of Ourselves Now": Establishing Independent Black Labor and Industry in Postwar Yorktown, Virginia	0
Greater Reconstruction and the Limitations to Federal Power in the US–Mexico Borderlands	0
Saving the Republic, Sinking the Republicans: Unraveling the Anomalous 1862 Midterms and Their Consequences	0
The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)	0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)	0
Editor’s Overview	0
A Novel as Archive: A Roundtable on Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 Novel, Iola Leroy , about the Civil War and Reconstruction	0
Contributors	0
The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White by Brook Thomas (review)	0
Editor's Overview	0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe	0
The Refugee Crisis of Sherman's March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands	0
“What a Piece of Work Is Man”: Human Dignity in The Killer Angels on Its Fiftieth Anniversary	0

Great Excitement Prevails: The American Lynching Myth	0
Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)	0
Contributors	0
A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era by Robert E. Cray	0
"Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel": White-on-White Sectional Violence and the "Long" Bleeding Kansas	0
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell	0
The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions (1974 Reprint)	0
Generative AI and Civil War Primary Sources: A Methodology Experiment	0
Prisoners with Undaunted Patriotism: Incarcerated Black Soldiers and Battles of Citizenship in Military Prisons during the Civil War	0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis	0
The Open-Shop Movement and the Long Shadow of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction	0
Conservative to the Last Degree: The Emerging Illinois Republican Party and the Election of 1856	0
The Massacre at Marks's Mills: How Confederates Murdered "Near 30" Black Refugees and Reenslaved 150 Others	0
White Supremacy and Fraud: The "Abolitionist" Work of Henry Frisbie	0
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis by Brian C. Neumann (review)	0
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard (review)	0
Editor's Overview	0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang (review)	0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe	0
Forum on Eric Foner’s “The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions”	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton (review)	0
What's Love Got to Do with It?": A Roundtable on the Cultural Legacy of Eric W. Lott's Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class on Its Thirtieth Anniversary	0
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson	0
The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama by Victoria Ott (review)	0
Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863–1865 by Colleen Glenney Boggs	0
In Memoriam	0
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells	0
Marketing The Dead of Antietam: Photographs of Death as a Cultural Commodity	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Contributors	0
The Past, Present, and Future of Civil War Studies	0
Contesting "the Insatiable Maw of Capital": Mine Workers' Struggles in the Civil War Era	0
Editor's Overview	0
“Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image by Bruce Laurie	0
Moral Bushwhacking and Political Quantrellism: Thomas Ewing Jr. and the Clamor of Guerrilla Politics	0
2025 Hubbell Prize Awarded	0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher	0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)	0
Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt	0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 1856–1861 by Lauren M. Haumesser (review)	0
Radical Reconstruction and the Language of Conservatism in the United States, 1865–1877	0
The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr (review)	0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)	0
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	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
William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerilla Warfare by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)	0

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein, and: Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson	0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney (review)	0
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner	0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Faye A. Yarbrough	0
Editor's Overview	0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess	0
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson	0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations by Whitney Nell Stewart (review)	0
Contributors	0
Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity by Bradley R. Clampitt (review)	0
"Does the Civil War Matter?": A Roundtable Discussion	0
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor	0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus	0
“We Are Now at Gettysburg”: Gender and Place in the Iowa Woman’s Relief Corps’ Monument to Jennie Wade	0
Contributors	0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney	0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman	0
Guest Editor's Overview: Have Civil War Historians Lost Labor History?	0
“Portraits Torn to Shreds”: Iconoclasm and the Destruction of Confederate Memory	0
Editor's Overview	0
“I Shall Forward to You My Contraband”: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive	0
Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest	0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)	0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)	0
Black Geographies, White Anxieties: Maroons, Population Control, and Resource Competition in the Antebellum US South	0
Fighting for State Citizenship in the US Colored Troops	0
Contributors	0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (review)	0
An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Robin Bernstein’s Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit	0
Editor’s Overview	0
The Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today by Stephen Cushman	0
The Whartons' War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton 1863–1865 ed. by William C. Davis and Sue Heth Bell (review)	0
One Soldier in Two Armies: The Ambivalent Confederate Nationalism and Curated Memory of a Yeoman Rebel and Galvanized Yankee	0
Roundtable Discussion on Deborah Willis’s The Black Civil War Soldier: The Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship	0
“A Dead Cock in the Pit”: Masculine Rivalry, Manhood, and Honor in the Civil War South	0
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Contributors	0
The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans by Allison M. Johnson (review)	0
Contributors	0
2022 Hubbell Prize Awarded	0
Contributors	0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)	0
Editor’s Overview	0
Editor's Overview	0
Editor’s Overview	0
To Solidify in Brick: Building the Confederacy and Its Future During Wartime	0
The Right to Childhood and the Process of Emancipation in the American Civil War	0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea	0
Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South	0
True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Clayton J. Butler	0
Cracks in the Granite: Contested Civil War Memories in the American West	0
The Sexuality of Civil War Historiography: How Two Versions of Homosexuality Make Meaning of the War	0
The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (review)	0
Unleashed, Unbridled, and Unchained: Dogs and Horses During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era	0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius	0
Editor’s Overview	0
The “First” Emancipation Proclamation: Black Rebellion, Removal, and Freedom during the Seminole Wars	0
Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret	0
The Human Sacrifice: The Trial of Lucy Bagby and the Secession Crisis	0
Contributors	0
“Silent but Powerful Preachers”: Southern Religious Pamphlet Literature during the Civil War	0