The Civil War at 150
Join the Organization of American Historians in considering the Civil War through the insights of outstanding American historians.
Throughout the 150th anniversary of this conflict, the OAH will explore these themes online, in print, and in person:
- 2011 Origins
- 2012 Mobilizing for War
- 2013 Turning Points
- 2014 Total War
- 2015 Legacies
Featured Resources
Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 18-22, 2012
The 2012 OAH/NCPH annual meeting in Milwaukee will feature several sessions focusing on the Civil War as well as working group on the Civil War sesquicentennial, sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History. For more information, see pages 44 and 45 of the program.
From the OAH Archives
Selected articles on the Civil War from the OAH Magazine of History, the Journal of American History, and its predecessor, the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, offer a window onto evolving perceptions of the war and highlight how the OAH has long provided a forum for some of the most important Civil War scholarship.
OAH Magazine of History
Civil War at 150: Mobilizing for War (April 2012)
The April 2012 issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on how the Union and the Confederacy mobilized resources to fight the Civil War. Click here to read more >
Civil War at 150: Origins (April 2011)
The April 2011 issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on the origins of the Civil War. Click here to read more >
Avery O. Craven Award Winners
Since 1985, the Avery O. Craven Award has been presented annually by the OAH for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, and Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history. (The exception recognizes and reflects Craven's Quaker convictions.) Avery O. Craven was president of the OAH, 1963-1964. Click here to see a list of all Craven Award winners >
Journal of American History
“Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the Civil War”
The September 2011 issue of the Journal of American History included an interchange entitled “Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the Civil War,” in which nine historians explore how the construction of the American nation through civil war was related to nationalist impulses around the world in the mid-nineteenth century. Click here to read more >
Abraham Lincoln at 200
The September 2009 issue of the Journal of American History focused on Abraham Lincoln during the bicentennial of his birth, with expanded web content. Click here to read more >
OAH Distinguished Lecturers
The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program, a speakers bureau devoted to American history, features more than eighty historians who study and speak on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Click here to read more about participating speakers and extend an invitation to one today.
Recent Scholarship Online
Start your search for recent books, articles, and dissertations on the Civil War with Recent Scholarship Online. This rich database of citations drawn from more than one thousand history-related journals, anthologies, and indexes is available only to OAH members.
Talking History: Civil War and Reconstruction
Listen to interviews with noted historians from the archives of Talking History, a weekly radio show sponsored and produced by the OAH between 2001 and 2006. Interviewees include prize-winning authors Ira Berlin and David Blight as well as the late Stephen Ambrose and the late John Hope Franklin.
We hope that you will check this site often as new resources and features are developed and announced.
