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Manuscript submissions and inquiries about guidelines should be sent to William Blair, Editor, The Journal of the Civil War Era, at wab120@psu.edu.

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The editorial home for the journal is the Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 108 Weaver Building, University Park, PA 16802.

Previous Issue – Vol 1, No.1

The Journal of the Civil War Era

Volume 1, Number 1
March 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor’s Note

William Blair

Welcome to the New Journal

Articles

Edward L. Ayers and Scott Nesbit

Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South

Melinda Lawson

Imagining Slavery: Representations of the Peculiar Institution on the Northern Stage, 1776-1860

LeeAnn Whites

Forty Shirts and a Wagonload of Wheat: Women, the Domestic Supply Line, and the Civil War on the Western Border

Review Essay

Douglas R. Egerton

Rethinking Atlantic Historiography in a Post-Colonial Era: The Civil War in a Global Perspective

Book Reviews

Books Received

Professional Notes

Aaron Sheehan-Dean

The Nineteenth-Century U.S. History Job Market, 2000-2009

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