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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Editors' Note1
A New History of the American South ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (review)1
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (review)1
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)1
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse1
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)1
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)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
America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll (review)0
Old Age and American Slavery by David Stefan Doddington (review)0
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (review)0
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz (review)0
Disability in the Civil War Era0
Books Received0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty0
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
Editors’ Note0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
Enlarged by Caucus and Compromise”: Freethinkers, Celebrity Preachers, and the American Anti-Slavery Society0
Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)0
Digital History and the Civil War Era0
Contributors0
Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin (review)0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
Books Received0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
The International Dimension of Freedom: Revisiting Black Grassroots Activism during US Reconstruction0
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (review)0
Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael J. Turner0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang0
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus0
Books Received0
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
Editors' Note0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
Contributors0
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later ed. by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis0
Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark (review)0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War ed. by Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess (review)0
Editors Note0
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson (review)0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones0
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin0
The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895 by John R. Lundberg (review)0
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo (review)0
Editors' Note0
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher0
The Union's Culture Industry0
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)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
Editors Note0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 ed. by Roseann Bacha-Garza et al.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
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
The Archive / An Archive0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
The Crisis of Household Government and the Rise of Democratic Conservatism before the American Civil War0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)0
Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III (review)0
War Objects: Material Culture and New Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America0
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union by Stephen Puleo (review)0
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)0
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)0
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
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
Contributors0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe0
Socialism at the Edges of Civilization: Louis Pio and Colonial Visions in Scandinavia and the United States0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom by Frederick C. Knight (review)0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)0
Contributors0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer (review)0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
The Constant Recurrence of Such Atrocities: Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency during the Mexican-American War0
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill0
Lieber and Clausewitz: The Understanding of Modern War and the Theoretical Origins of General Orders No. 1000
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
“We Are Cherokee”: Exhibiting Material Culture as an Act of Reconciliation, a Roundtable0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign by Christopher Thrasher (review)0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Contributors0
All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 by Jeff Strickland0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
Books Received0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)0
Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State by Elizabeth Garner Masarik (review)0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Contributors0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (review)0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War by Mark A. Graber (review)0
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White (review)0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)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
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
Contributors0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
Editors’ Note0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher0
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Contributors0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America by Scott Gac (review)0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward ed. by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era by Robert Emmett Curran (review)0
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
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Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)0
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 by Alan Taylor (review)0
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
Contributors0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (review)0
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)0
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 Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era by Cecily N. Zander (review)0
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Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote0
Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois by Larry A. McClellan (review)0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)0
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (review)0
A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census by Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards (review)0
"Home-Builders": Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union Civil War Commemorations0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty by Michael P. Zuckert (review)0
Books Received0
Books Received0
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization by Allen Christopher York (review)0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney0
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
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Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster0
Books Received0
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
Books Received0
The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration by David Nicholson (review)0
Editors' Note0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
Contributors0
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)0
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction ed. by Karen Cook Bell (review)0
Trunks, Legal Texts, and the Materiality of Law in the Nineteenth Century0
Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
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 Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (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
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park (review)0
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Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (review)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
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
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
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
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