Recently added articles from Civil War History:
"The exhausted condition of the Treasury" on the eve of the Civil War.
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Civil War fiscal crisis began before April 12, 1861. The U.S. Treasury tottered in a state of "utmost confusion" months before Edmund Ruffin shot at the troops holed up in Fort Sumter. (1) Traditionally the "dynamic center" of government, the Treasury now faced "being placed before the ...
Hubbell Prize awarded.
Dec 01, 2008 ... CHRISTOPHER A. LUSE has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2007. His study on "Slavery's Champions Stood at Odds: Polygenesis and the Defense of Slavery" was selected by a committee at the Richards Civil War Era Center at the ...
Editor's note: suppression of the African slave trade revisited.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Welcome to a special issue to commemorate the bicentenary of the closing of the African slave trade by the United States. On January 1, 1808, the legislation took effect that banned the importation of Africans. Although slavery continued in the Atlantic Rim, the occasion--coupled with ...
The U.S. Transatlantic slave trade, 1644-1867: an assessment.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Last year was the bicentenary of the abolition of the African slave trade by the United States and 2008 is the bicentenary of that law going into effect. But there are perhaps better reasons to reconsider the patterns of the U.S. side of the African slave trade. More African migrants have ...
Regulating the African slave trade.
Dec 01, 2008; ... In 1807 the U.S. Congress passed legislation, which became effective on January 1, 1808, to end all importations of slaves into the United States. Even before that date, Congress had passed a series of laws which prevented Americans from participating in the trade as sailors, ship ...
Blackbirders and Bozales: African-born slaves on the lower Brazos River of Texas in the nineteenth century.
Dec 01, 2008; ... About forty miles south of Houston, in Brazoria County, Texas, down a gravel road and across a fenced pasture, lie the ruins of a large brick building, two hundred feet long, wrapped in a chrysalis of vines, with trees sprouting in and around it. The structure was once the center of ...
Liberia and the last slave ships.
Dec 01, 2008; ... There had never been a day in U.S. history like August 8, 1860, when, within hours, the Africa Squadron of the U.S. Navy seized two slave ships within hours off the coast of Africa with more than 1,500 Africans aboard. On the Erie there were found 897 Africans crammed below deck ....
Everyman's war: a rich and poor man's fight in Lee's army.(Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia)(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Twenty-eight-year-old Benjamin Blackwell, a small-time tenant farmer from Washington County, Virginia, had had enough of war. A single man who lived with an uncle, he enlisted as a private back in June 1861 in the 48th Virginia Infantry, but prolonged service grew wearisome. In fall 1862, ...
"An abiding faith in cotton": the merchant capitalist community of New Orleans, 1860-1862.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Although Louisiana was one of the Old South's chief producers of agricultural commodities, its most crucial economic contribution to the region was the commercial traffic steered through the port of New Orleans, a city whose business and financial district constituted one of the most ...
"Fighting it over again": the battle of Gettysburg at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition.(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2008; ... <Pre>The joy at this [1876 Centennial] event will be universal in thisfavored land .... From ocean to ocean, by every valley and hillsideand stream, and on every shore and sea where the flag of the Unionfloats, this celebration will take place; none so humble upon whom...
The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 82nd annual meeting, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, April 23-26, 2009.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 82nd annual meeting, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, April 23-26, 2009. Abstracts must be received by September 15, 2008 (e-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted). The ...
The Organization of American Historians seeks proposals for its 2009 conference, which will be themed "History Without Boundaries.".(ANNOUNCEMENTS)(Conference news)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Organization of American Historians seeks proposals for its 2009 conference, which will be themed "History Without Boundaries." The program committee seeks an eclectic program that will highlight the creative use of history in research, education, the media, and public presentations, ...
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine announces its 16th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 3-5, 2008.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)(Conference news)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The National Museum of Civil War Medicine announces its 16th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 3-5, 2008. The Baltimore location boasts attractions such as the USS Constellation, dining at the Inner Harbor, historic Fells Point, the Waiters ...
The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes (PAS: APAL) will hold its 40th annual conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 16-18, 2008.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)(Conference news)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes (PAS: APAL) will hold its 40th annual conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 16-18, 2008. The theme of the conference is "Landscapes at Risk." For complete ...
The Military Order of the Stars and Bars has awarded Eric H. Walther the 2007 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award.(AWARDS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Military Order of the Stars and Bars has awarded Eric H. Walther the 2007 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award for his William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War (UNC Press, 2006), a comprehensive biography of William Lowndes Yancey (1814-63), one of the ...
Brian Dirck has been awarded the Benjamin Barondess Award from the Civil War Round Table of New York for his book Lincoln the Lawyer (Illinois, 2007).(AWARDS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Brian Dirck has been awarded the Benjamin Barondess Award from the Civil War Round Table of New York for his book Lincoln the Lawyer (Illinois, 2007). The award, ...
The Austin Civil War Round Table of Austin, Texas, has awarded its 2007 Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize to A. Wilson Greene's Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (Virginia, 2006).(AWARDS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Austin Civil War Round Table of Austin, Texas, has awarded its 2007 Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize to A. Wilson Greene's Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in ...
Two books offering new insights into the lives of three of the Civil War eras most compelling figures will share the 2008 Lincoln Prize, which is endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by Gettysburg College.(AWARDS)(The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters and Lincoln the Man)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Two books offering new insights into the lives of three of the Civil War eras most compelling figures will share the 2008 Lincoln Prize, which is endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by Gettysburg College. For their books about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass ...
In memoriam.(Phillip Shaw Paludan)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Phillip Shaw Paludan, University of Illinois at Springfield Professor and Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, passed away on August 1, 2007. One of the nation's foremost authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, he joined the UIS faculty in 2001. Professor ...