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Journal of the Civil War Era

Summer 2013 Issue

William A. Blair

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/2013
Pages: 176
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
eBook ISBN: 9781469608976

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The Journal of the Civil War Era

Volume 3, Number 2
June 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor's Note
William Blair

Articles

Stephen Cushman
When Lincoln Met Emerson

Christopher Phillips
Lincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in the Western Border Slave States, 1861–1862

Jonathan W. White
The Strangely Insignificant Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Civil War

Review Essay

Yael Sternhell
Revisionism Reinvented? The Antiwar Turn in Civil War Scholarship

Professional Notes

Gary W. Gallagher
The Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis?

Book Reviews
Books Received
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.

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