Recently added articles from Civil War History:
Hubbell Price awarded.(John T. Hubbell Prize awardee David Eltis)
Dec 01, 2009 ... DAVID ELTIS has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2008. His study on "The U.S. Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644-1867" was selected by a committee at the Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University. The prize earns ...
A fresh look at the diary of a public man.(Report)
Dec 01, 2009; ... In 1879 the North American Review published The Diary of a Public Man in four separate monthly installments. The diary's entries were dated eighteen years earlier, between December 28, 1860, and March 15, 1861, the desperate weeks just before the start of the Civil War. Although the NAR ...
Measures for a "speedy conclusion": a reexamination of conscription and Civil War federalism.
Dec 01, 2009; ... The traditional story of northern conscription during the Civil War is a familiar one to scholars and casual readers alike. In this narrative, the states, and particularly governors, maintained control of military recruitment early in the war. Significant Republican losses in both ...
Announcements.(Endnotes)(Ulysses S. Grant Association Scholars Research Program)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2009 ... The Scholars Research Program, funded by the Ulysses S. Grant Association, announces plans to provide up to five grants of $500 each to qualified scholars for on-campus research in the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Papers Collection, located at Mississippi State University. Mainly ...
Awards.(Endnotes)(Museum of the Confederacy literary awards)
Dec 01, 2009 ... The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce the winners of its 39th annual literary awards competition. The recipient of the 2008 Jefferson Davis Award is Joseph T. Glatthaar for General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (Free Press). The Davis Award is given ...