Journal of the Civil War Era

The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. Table of Contents for this issue, Volume One, Number Two: volume 1, number 2 June 2011 Table of Contents Articles
a. kristen foster
"We Are Men!": Frederick Douglass and the Fault Lines of Gendered Citizenship kathryn s. meier
"No Place for the Sick": Nature's War on Civil War Soldier
Mental and Physical Health in the 1862 Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns brandi c. brimmer
"Her Claim for Pension Is Lawful and Just":
Representing Black Union Widows in Late-Nineteenth Century North Carolina Review Essay
frank towers
Partisans, New History, and Modernization:
The Historiography of the Civil War's Causes, 1861–2011 Book Reviews
Books Received Professional Notes
daniel e. sutherland
The Seven O'Clock Lecture Notes on Contributors The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.