Recently added articles from Civil War History:
Disaffection, persistence, and nation: some directions in recent scholarship on the confederacy.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Thirty years have passed since Emory M. Thomas's The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 appeared on the historiographical landscape. Some of its themes had been present in his earlier The Confederacy as Revolutionary Experience, and together the two books heralded the emergence of a major ...
Theory's failure: Malthusian population theory and the projected demise of slavery.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... During his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858, Stephen A. Douglas hit upon a weak spot in his opponent's argument. In his "House Divided" speech, Lincoln had uttered the famous words: "Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public ...
Announcements.(Endnotes)
Sep 01, 2009 ... The Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) have created a fund to award travel grams in memory of John Higham (1920-2003), past president of both organizations, and a towering figure in immigration, ethnic, and intellectual history ....
Awards.(Endnotes)(literary prizes)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009 ... The Society of Civil War Historians is pleased to announce the first annual Tom Watson Brown Book Award. The inaugural Tom Watson Brown Book Award will recognize an outstanding scholarly book published in 2009 on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War with a ...
"I am not so patriotic as I was once": the effects of military occupation on the occupying union soldiers during the civil war.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... When Joseph Barlow, a corporal in Company I of the 23d Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, wrote his wife from New Bern, North Carolina, in April 1862, he was not a happy man. Though his unit had just helped capture the eastern North Carolina ports of New Bern and Beaufort, the ...