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In today's Muster, we congratulate JCWE editor Kate Masur for her collaborative project, Freedom Was In Sight, winning the 2026 James Harvey Robinson Prize for Teaching Aids journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

JCWE editor's collaborative project wins 2026 James Harvey Robinson Prize for Teaching Aids - The...

The American Historical Association awarded its 2026 James Harvey Robinson Prize to Kate Masur and Liz Clarke for Freedom Was in Sight!: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, DC,...

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In today's Muster, Keila Grinberg and Fabiane Popinigis discuss the origins of the "Noisy Archives" special issue of the JCWE journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

JCWE Special Issue Interview with Keila Grinberg and Fabiane Popinigis - The Journal of the Civil...

In today’s Muster, JCWE Associate Editor Robert Bland discusses the journal’s recent special issue, “Noisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Brazil,” with Keila Grinberg and Fabiane...

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In today's Muster, Megan Bever interviews Lesley Gordon about her recent book, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2025) journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Interview with Lesley Gordon - The Journal of the Civil War Era

In today’s Muster, associate editor Megan Bever interviews Lesley Gordon about her recent book, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Gordon...

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In today's Muster, editors Kate Masur and Greg Downs preview the September 2026 JCWE journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Previewing the September 2026 JCWE - The Journal of the Civil War Era

This issue’s research essays, all written by early-career scholars, show how conversations in distinctive subfields can help historians develop new perspectives on the Civil War era. One article is...

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In today's Muster, Elliott Martin examines the Amazon Prime series, The Grey House, and its portrayal of Union Spy Elizabeth Van Lew journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Streaming the War: Elizabeth Van Lew, the Richmond Underground, and Amazon Prime's The Grey House -...

Union spymaster Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900), circa 1865. Portrayed by actress Daisy Head in The Grey House, she risked everything she had for the Union. Photo courtesy of the Wikimedia Foundation....

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In today's Muster, Lindsey Peterson highlights how digital scholarly collections can help historians recover lost histories from the Civil War era journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Finding Rabbit: What One Freedman’s Story Reveals About Scholarly Editing - The Journal of the...

Archives and special collections have long connected users with the raw materials of our history. Researchers visiting our reading rooms encounter the past one page, photograph, and reel at a time....

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In today's Muster, David Ballantyne and Charles Lane recalculate the Colfax Massacre's death toll journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

How Many Died in the Colfax Massacre? - The Journal of the Civil War Era

 On April 13, 1873 approximately 140 heavily armed white men, led by ex-Confederate officers, attacked a roughly equal number of Black men occupying the courthouse in Colfax, seat of Grant Parish,...

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In today's Muster, Daniel Crofts highlights the importance of Kentanji Brown Jackson's concurrence to the Supreme Court's majority decision on Trump v. Barbara (2026) journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Reasons for Hope: Kentanji Brown Jackson, Civil War Era History, and the Supreme Court’s Struggle...

You didn’t expect this.  Part of a majority segment of a U.S. Supreme Court decision—that is, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence in the birthright citizenship case—builds upon and amplifies...

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In today's Muster, Kris Plunkett reflects on the place of the Lost Cause in Cherokee memory of the Civil War journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

The Stand Watie Monument, the Lost Cause, and Oklahoma Cherokee Memory of the Civil War - The...

In 1921, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in honor of Stand Watie and the Cherokee soldiers he led, inscribed: “Only full blood indian[sic] Brig. Gen....

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In today's Muster, we congratulate Amy Murrell Taylor for winning the @RichardsCenter Prize for the best article published in the @JCWE1 Congratulations Dr. Taylor! journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Announcing the Winner of the 2025 George and Ann Richards Prize - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Amy Murrell Taylor has won the $1,000 George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2025. The article, “More Than a ‘Pile of Rude Boards’: Space,...

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In today's Muster, Michael Wise examines the role of providence and prestige as pillars of proslavery religion in the Civil War era South journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Providence and Prestige: Misguided Faith and Ambition in Southern Defenses of Slavery - The Journal...

In his November 1860 sermon, “Slavery a Divine Trust: Duty of the South to Preserve and Perpetuate It,” Benjamin Morgan Palmer argued that the providential trust was “to conserve and to perpetuate...

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In today's Muster, Drew Baird examines the role of the Union Pacific in shaping the Greater Reconstruction in the American West journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

A Power in the Land: Union Pacific in the Greater Reconstruction - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Railroads have long been subjects of Civil War era studies. Scholars have cast them as promoters of growth before the conflict, agents of capacity and connection during the war itself, and instrume...

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In today's Muster, Cassandra Jane Werking examines the long history of Fort Pickens and its place in Florida and national memory journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Stand Firm Like Fort Pickens: Confederate Florida and the Long Struggle over Unionist Memory - The...

Despite being in Confederate Florida, United States Fort Pickens repelled enemy attempts to gain control of the Union holdout. Situated on the bay of Pensacola, Fort Pickens remained in U.S. control...

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In today's Muster, JCWE editor Megan Bever interviews author Ian Delahanty about his recent book, Embracing Emancipation journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

JCWE Conversation with Ian Delahanty - The Journal of the Civil War Era

In today’s Muster, JCWE associate editor Megan Bever interviews Ian Delahanty. Delahanty is an associate professor of history at Springfield College and the author of Embracing Emancipation: A...

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In today's Muster, Brook Thomas reflects on Birthright Citizenship and postbellum debates around the idea of allegiance journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Birthright Citizenship and Allegiance - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Birthright citizenship is controlled by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of...

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Graduate students in Civil War era history, the deadline for the Richards Center Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship has been extended to March 15. If you are working on any subject in the Civil War Era, please consider applying.
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In today's Muster, Karl Miller examines the Reconstruction-era roots of the Animal Rights Movement journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

A Tentative Start: Animal Rights in Florida During Reconstruction - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Florida wrote a new state constitution and held elections to seat a legislature. Tasked with handling the issues that arose in postbellum Florida society, the...

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In today's Muster, ongoing contributor Elliott Martin writes about Henry 'Box' Brown and Richmond's public history landscape journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Henry 'Box' Brown: Tobacco Worker, Stage Magician, Tourist Attraction - The Journal of the Civil...

Henry ‘Box’ Brown had a variety of identities in his life-tobacco factory worker, escaped slave, abolitionist, lecturer, and touring panoramist and entertainer on the English stage. In recent years,...

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In today's Muster, we are announcing a call for gradate student submissions journalofthecivilwarera.org/…

Muster Call for Graduate Student Submissions - The Journal of the Civil War Era

The Society of Civil War Historians’ Graduate Student Connection Committee, together with Muster, the blog of The Journal of the Civil War Era, is calling for submissions from graduate students....

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