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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
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
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
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
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