Journal of the Civil War Era e-bog

The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to announce the launch of The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.The journal takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.The Journal of the Civil War Era aims to create a space where scholars across the many subfields that animate nineteenth-century history can enter into conversation with each other.Table of Contents for this issue, Volume One, Number One:Editor's NoteWilliam BlairWelcome to the New JournalArticlesEdward L. Ayers and Scott NesbitSeeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American SouthMelinda LawsonImagining Slavery: Representations of the Peculiar Institutionon the Northern Stage, 1776-1860LeeAnn WhitesForty Shirts and a Wagonload of Wheat:Women, the Domestic Supply Line, and the Civil Waron the Western BorderReview EssayDouglas R. EgertonRethinking Atlantic Historiography in a Post-Colonial Era:The Civil War in a Global PerspectiveBook ReviewsBooks ReceivedProfessional NotesAaron Sheehan-DeanThe Nineteenth-Century U.S. History Job Market, 2000-2009