Journal of the Civil War Era

The Journal of the Civil War Era is published by UNC Press in association with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University. It publishes the most creative new work on the many issues raised by slavery, the sectional crisis, war, emancipation, Reconstruction, and memory of the country’s signal conflict. It' mission is to bring fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history from the nineteenth into the early twentieth century. A subscription to the journal comes with membership in the Society of Civil War Historians. Visit our website at journalofthecivilwarera.org