December 2025, Volume 71, No. 4
“The Donaldsonville March of 1870: A Case Study in Black Militias’ Use of Force to Combat Insurrectionists in the Reconstruction South”
J. Jacob Calhoun
“Greater Reconstruction and the Limitations to Federal Power in the US–Mexico Borderlands”
William S. Kiser
“Cracks in the Granite: Contested Civil War Memories in the American West”
John R. Legg and Niels Eichhorn
September 2025, Volume 71, No. 3
“Great Excitement Prevails: The American Lynching Myth”
Kathryn Lofton
“Saving the Republic, Sinking the Republicans: Unraveling the Anomalous 1862 Midterms and Their Consequences”
Richard Edwards
“Generative AI and Civil War Primary Sources: A Methodology Experiment”
Julie Mujic
June 2025, Volume 71, No. 2
“Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South”
Elizabeth Maeve Barnes
“One Soldier in Two Armies: The Ambivalent Confederate Nationalism and Curated Memory of a Yeoman Rebel and Galvanized Yankee”
Gary T. Edwards
“An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Robin Bernstein’s Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit: A Roundtable”
Moderator: Jim Downs; Participants: Evan Kutzler, Jonathan Lande, Koritha Mitchell, Heather Ann Thompson, Crystal Webster, and Jonathan Wells
March 2025, Volume 71, No. 1
“The Massacre at Marks’s Mills: How Confederates Murdered “Near 30” Black Refugees and Reenslaved 150 Others”
Cormac Broeg
“John Mitchell and His Critics: Transatlantic Abolition and the Irish American Response to Slavery in the 1850s”
Robert O’Sullivan
“Black Geographies, White Anxieties: Maroons, Population Control, and Resource Competition in the Antebellum US South”
K. Howell Keiser Jr.
December 2024, Volume 70, No. 4
“‘What a Piece of Work Is Man’: Human Dignity in The Killer Angels on Its Fiftieth Anniversary”
Christina K. Adkins
“‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive”
Marcy S. Sacks
September 2024, Volume 70, No. 3
Guest Editor’s Overview: Have Civil War Historians Lost Labor History?
Matthew E. Stanley
“Contesting ‘the Insatiable Maw of Capital’: Mine Workers’ Struggles in the Civil War Era”
Rosemary Feurer
“‘We Can Take Care of Ourselves Now’: Establishing Independent Black
Labor and Industry in Postwar Yorktown, Virginia”
Rebecca Capobianco Toy
“White Supremacy and Fraud: The ‘Abolitionist’ Work of Henry Frisbie”
William Horne
“The Open-Shop Movement and the Long Shadow of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction”
Chad E. Pearson
June 2024, Volume 70, No. 2
“‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’: Roundtable on the Cultural Legacy of Eric W. Lott’sLove and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class on Its Thirtieth Anniversary”
Moderator: Rhae Lynn Barnes Participants: Daphne A. Brooks, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Scott Gac, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Josephine Lee, and David R. Roediger
“The Human Sacrifice: The Trial of Lucy Bagby and the Secession Crisis”
Daniel W. Sunshine
March 2024, Volume 70, No. 1
“The Refugee Crisis of Sherman’s March: Savannah, Port Royal, and the Transformation of the Sea Islands”
Bennett Parten
“‘Driven Out on the Old Charge of Being a Rebel’: White-on-White Sectional Violence and the ‘Long’ Bleeding Kansas”
Brent M. S. Campney
“Does the Civil War Matter?”: A Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Jim Downs; Participants: Yoni Appelbaum, Drew Gilpin Faust, Kerri K. Greenidge, Stephanie McCurry, Megan Kate Nelson, and Adam I. P. Smith
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