As Editors of the Journal, we have promoted the publication of roundtable discussions to foster an interdisciplinary perspective on Civil War studies. These sessions have convened scholars from a range of disciplines to examine various aspects of the Civil War. Beyond the field of history, numerous academics are actively researching, engaging with, and teaching about the Civil War. These forums have consistently offered new and exciting ways to approach the war. Check out some of our previous conversations below.
Previous Roundtables
Volume 71, No. 2 (June 2025): An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Robin Bernstein’s Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (pdcnet.org | Project MUSE)
Volume 70, No. 2 (June 2024): “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Roundtable on the Cultural Legacy of Eric W. Lott’s Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class on Its Thirtieth Anniversary (pdcnet.org | Project MUSE)
Volume 69, No. 4 (December 2023): A Novel as Archive: A Roundtable on Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 Novel, Iola Leroy, about the Civil War and Reconstruction (pdcnet.org | Project MUSE)
Volume 68, No. 4 (December 2022): Roundtable Discussion on Deborah Willis’s The Black Civil War Soldier: The Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (pdcnet.org | Project MUSE)
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