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A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War

A Contest Not Yet Closed: The Prospects for Reconstruction in 1865

A Generation Set Apart: Union Civil War Veterans and Northern Society

A Sensory History of the American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln, God, and the American Civil War

African American Artists Interpret the Civil War in a Post-Soul Age

African American Children and the Civil War

African American Women and the Civil War

African Americans and Photography in the Civil War Era

African Americans and the Civil War

After Appomattox: The Significance of Reconstruction for Understanding the Meaning of the Civil War

Alexander Gardner, the Civil War, and the National Real: Visual Culture in the 1860s

All the President's Statesmen: Abraham Lincoln, Union Governors, and the Negotiation of Power in the Civil War

Allies for Emancipation? Lincoln and Black Abolitionists

America's International Civil War

American Women during the Civil War

An Environmental History of the Civil War

An International History of Reconstruction

Appalachian Fall: The Industrial Takeover of the Southern Mountains

Army Ordnance and the American Civil War

B

"Beauty and Booty": The Language of Sexual Violence during the American Civil War

"Bring Forward the Men": The District of Columbia's 1st Regiment United States Colored Troops

Battle Lines: Producing a Graphic History of the Civil War

Battlefield Cowardice: Violence and Memory in the American Civil War

Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery

Black Refugee Camps and Native American Reservations: An Untold Story of Reconstruction

Black Women and Children Refugees in the Civil War

British Popular Reaction to the American Civil War

C

"Colored Citizens": African American Women and Northern Reconstruction

Cemeteries and Constitutional Culture before the Civil War

Chamberlain at Round Top: How Historians Work

Civil War and Civil Rights in Philadelphia

Civil War Soldiers

Civil War Soldiers' Stories

Civil War Veterans Return Home

Civil War Veterans: Lessons on Reconciling in the Aftermath of War

Civil War, Abolition Peace

Civil War-era Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

Commerce and Civil War Memory

Comparative Civil Wars

Confederate Monuments in the Jim Crow South

Confronting the Causes of the Civil War in Public: The National Park Service and American Memory

Creating the Global Color Line: How Reconstruction in the United States Influenced the Development of European Empires in Africa

D

"Defend What Is Our Own": Arlington Freedman's Village

Dating Reconstruction from 1861: How the Beginnings of the Civil War Influenced the Postwar Struggle for Peace

Decision in the Heartland: Where the Civil War Was Won

Did Nat Turner "Confess"?

Did the Abolitionists Cause the Civil War?

Dreams of War and Peace: The Remarkable Night Life of Civil War Americans

Duels and Honor in the Old South

Dying to Be Free: The Smallpox Epidemic during the Civil War and Reconstruction

E

Starship Troopers, Civic Virtue, and the American Civil War

Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom

F

Federalism, Sectionalism, and the Union

For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars

Foreign Interpretations of Lincoln and the American Civil War

Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War

Freedom Dreams North and South: Reconstructing Racial Equality from 1776 to 1876

From Border States to Border South: Slavery, Civil War, and the Politics of Identity in the Border Slave States

G

"Grant Is My Man": Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War in 1863

General Benjamin F. Butler, a Reassessment

George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

Gettysburg's Loose Canon: The Shifting Story of the Civil War's Big Battle

Gettysburg's Lost Battle: African Americans and the Campaign of 1863

Gettysburg: A Seductive Commemorative Landscape

Grant in the Wilderness

H

"How are the Daughters of Eve Punished?": Rape during the American Civil War

History and Memory of the Civil Rights Movement

How Should We Remember? Reconstruction at 150

How Slavery Really Ended in America: Three Black Virginians Who Crossed a River and Changed History

How the Civil War Created a Nation

How the Civil War Was Won . . . in the Financial Markets

How to Read a Civil War Battlefield

I

Imagining a Winnable War: Abraham Lincoln and the Rhetoric of Disunion

In Search of Confederate Slaves

International Currents in the American Civil War

Intimate Strategies: Civil War Military Commanders and Their Wives

Ireland, Irish America, and Radical Reconstruction

J

Jennie Wade's Bad Reputation

John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, and the Making of an Irrepressible Conflict

John Brown, Harpers Ferry, and the Coming of the Civil War

John Henry and Jefferson Davis: Black and White Citizenship in a World Changed by War

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in History and Memory: Reappraising America's Heroes

K

Karl Marx and the American Civil War

Killing and Dying for the Confederacy

Know(ing) When You See It: Pornography and the Sexual Culture of U.S. Army Camps in the Civil War

L

"Liberty to the Captive": Fugitive Slaves in Civil-War Washington, D.C.

Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

Land and Labor in the Civil War and Reconstruction

Legacy of Dissent: The Civil War Roots of Populist White Nationalism in Middle America

Lessons in Leadership from Jefferson Davis and His Generals

Liberty, Slavery, and the Coming of the Civil War

Lincoln and the Widow Bixby

Lincoln's Disturbing Stance on Civil Liberties

Lincoln's Grasp of War: Conciliation, Emancipation, and the Civil War in the Border States

M

Mad Men and Spunky Boys: The Search for Constitutional Compromise on the Eve of the Civil War

Mapping the American Civil War

Material Culture and Monuments in the Civil War Era

Memories of a Massacre: Remembering Reconstruction in a Mid-South City

Mutiny at Fort Jackson: A Case Study of Wartime Freedom, 1863–1864

N

"Not To Divide the North": The Politics of Dissent during the Civil War and the Making of the American Midwest

No Medals, No Monuments: Children during the Civil War

Northern Slavery and Emancipation

Not without My Daughter: The Postwar Underground World of Harriet and Louisa Jacobs

O

"Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War"

"Overrun with Free Negroes": Emancipation and Wartime Black Migration

P

Picturing War: The Civil War and America’s Visual Culture

Police Powers, the Antislavery Movement, and the Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment

Prophet of Freedom

R

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Reading Civil War Soldier Letters

Reconciling and Reuniting the Nation: How Americans Have Remembered the Civil War

Reconstructing Men: Disability, Conflict, and Union Veterans

Reconstruction and American Citizenship

Reconstruction and Foreign Affairs

Reconstruction and the American Political Tradition

Reconstruction as a Pure Bourgeois Revolution

Reconstruction South and West

Reconstruction: A Second Civil War

Reconstruction: The First Civil Rights Revolution

Reconstruction: The Second Phase of the Civil War

Reconstruction: Why It Failed

Religion and the American Civil War

Reliving the Fall of Reconstruction in the Age of Trump

Remembering Appomattox: From Reconciliation to Sectional Discord

Remembering Lee: Disputes among Virginia's Men and Women over the Lee Monument

Remembering Reconstruction

Remembering Reconstruction: America's Second Founding

Rewriting Reconstruction

Rose Herera's Civil War

S

Scouting for Sherman: George Quimby's March through Georgia and the Carolinas

Secession as an International Phenomenon

Secession, Slavery, and the Causes of the Civil War

Sisters and Rebels: Inventing Modern Lives from the Shadow of the Confederacy to the Great American Inquisition

Slave Resistance and the Making of American Abolition

Slavery, Civil War, and the Emancipation of Motherhood

Soldiers' Wives and Confederate Politics

Southern Cross, North Star: The Politics of Region, Irreconciliation, and Civil War Memory in the American Heartland

Statues, Murals, and Parades: Commemorating "Lost Causes" in Ireland and the American South

Struggle for the Heartland: The Civil War in the West Revisited

Subjects, Citizens, Christians: Reconstruction's Religious History

T

"The Best Place to Try the Experiment": Emancipation in Washington, D.C., April 1862

"Through the Heart of Dixie": Sherman's March and American Memory

The 19th Amendment: The Fourth Reconstruction Amendment?

The 44th New York Regiment at Little Round Top

The 5th Texas Regiment at Gettysburg

The Abolitionist Origins of Radical Reconstruction

The American Civil War and the World: Limited War, Limited Peace

The American Civil War as a Technological Event

The Antislavery Bulwark

The Breakdown of Slavery in the Civil War South

The Campaign for Civil Rights in the National Capital during Reconstruction

The Civil War after Appomattox

The Civil War and the Constitution

The Civil War and the Origins of the Colorado Territory

The Civil War and the Rise of Big Business in America

The Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis

The Civil War in Photographs

The Civil War or Reconstruction (multiple talks available)

The Civil War Prison Camp

The Coming of the Civil War

The Confederate Debate Over Arming the Slaves

The Continental Civil War and Reconstruction

The Democracy That Broke: Incivility and the Origins of the Civil War

The Evangelical Origins of the Civil War

The Fire Zouaves and the Death of Ellsworth: A Story of Acrobatics, Bloodshed, and the First Days of the Civil War

The First Ladies during the Civil War

The Fourteenth Amendment and American Reconstruction

The Invisible Battle: Women at Gettysburg, 1863

The Lawyers' Civil War

The Leadership of Robert E. Lee

The Leadership of William T. Sherman

The Legacy of Emancipation in Post-Civil-War Washington, DC

The Legacy of the Civil War

The Long Nineteenth Amendment

The Meaning of the American Civil War for the Twenty-First Century

The Method in Her Madness: Recovering the True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in Confederate Richmond

The Nez Perce War and Reconstruction's Legacy in the West

The Other Reconstruction: Race, Regions, and Irreconciliation on the Post-Civil War Middle Border

The Perfected Republic of White Men: The Confederate Project and Its Undoing

The Pivotal Role of Texas in the Civil War

The Political Significance of Slave Resistance

The Reconstruction Amendments

The Reconstruction Amendments Then and Now

The Reconstruction of Rights: The Fourteenth Amendment and Popular Conceptions of Governance

The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers

The Sexual and Racial Politics of Reconstruction

The Shaky Alliance of German Immigrants and Blacks during Reconstruction and Beyond

The Shiloh Campaign

The Slave's Cause: A New History of Abolition

The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Disunion Rhetoric and the Coming of the Civil War

The Stroke of Midnight: New Year's Observances during the Civil War Era

The Test of Leadership: Grant's First Battle against Lee

The Underground Railroad and the Coming of the Civil War

The West, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

Traitor State or Jersey Blue? New Jersey and the American Civil War

Transforming Medicine: Race and the American Civil War

U

U. S. Emancipation in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Ulysses S. Grant and the Problem of Political Violence during Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant: Hero in War, Hero in Peace, and Hero in Civil Rights

Union and Slavery: How Union Veterans Remembered the Civil War

Union Veterans and the Rise of Interest-Group Politics

W

Was Emancipation a War Crime?

Was John Brown America's First Terrorist?

Was the Civil War a Second American Revolution?

Waving the Confederate Battle Flag: The Uses and Misuses of Southern History

What Does George Washington Have to Do with the American Civil War?

What German Americans Fought For: Evidence from their Civil War Letters

When did the American Civil War End?

When White Supremacy Won: Pitchfork Ben Tillman and the Battle against Equality

Where Did the Reconstruction Amendments Come From?

Why Students Don't Know Anything about Reconstruction: Three Modern Myths

Why the Civil War Mattered

William Mahone: The Confederate General Who Was Erased

With Malice and Charity: How Americans Fought the Civil War

Women and the American Civil War

Women and the Civil War "Homefronts"

Women in the Civil War

Women in the Civil War South: Battle on the Homefront

Women's Associations and Civil War Memory

Y

Young Blood: Underage Enlistment in the U.S. Civil War