The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 3, Number 2
June 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor''s Note
William Blair
Articles
Stephen Cushman
When Lincoln Met Emerson
Christopher Phillips
Lincoln''s Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in the Western Border Slave States, 1861–1862
Jonathan W. White
The Strangely Insignificant Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Civil War
Review Essay
Yael Sternhell
Revisionism Reinvented? The Antiwar Turn in Civil War Scholarship
Professional Notes
Gary W. Gallagher
The Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis?
Book Reviews
Books Received
Notes on Contributors
The Journal of the Civil War Era 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.
