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The JCWE—published by @uncpress.bsky.social and @richardscenter.bsky.social —is home to the most creative new work on the many issues raised by slavery, the sectional crisis, war, emancipation, and Reconstruction. https://tinyurl.com/4hnmffeu
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In today's Muster, Kate Masur and Gregory Downs preview the December issue of the journal www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/prev...
Previewing the December 2025 JCWE - The Journal of the Civil War Era
With this issue of the journal, we complete six years as coeditors and feel inspired by the work of so many of our professional colleagues who keep scholarly journals functioning and humbled by Bill B...
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In today's Muster, @richcondon.bsky.social explores the recent Netflix series Death by Lightning and its portrait of James Garfield as the last "Lincoln Republican" www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/deat...
Death by Lightning - An Ode to Service - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In his inaugural speech on March 4, 1881, newly elected President James Garfield emphasized the importance of ongoing Reconstruction, asserting that the “elevation of the negro race from slavery to th...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Congrats to postdoc scholar Dr. Joshua Strayhorn on a great manuscript workshop on “Freedom’s Promise: Black Mobility, Migration, and Freedom Dreams in Eastern North Carolina, 1862-1898!” And many thanks to the invited scholars, Dr. Tera Hunter & Dr. Dylan Penningroth, for their valuable feedback.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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In today's Muster, Cassandra Jane Werking explores irregular warfare along the Canadian border and how this conflict challenges our current hemispheric story of the American Civil War www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/cana...
Canada Caught in the Cross Fire: How U.S. Major General John Adams Dix Confronted Confederate Violence on the International Border - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Hundreds of miles from the cacophony of hissing Minié balls, rumbling artillery fire, and thumping drums that defined the acoustic environment of battlefields in established theaters of war, Major Gen...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Congratulations to former Muster editor @hngreen.bsky.social for being included on this illustrious list!
December 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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For more on this historical context, see this amicus brief from @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social

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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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In today's Muster, Kate Masur and Gregory Downs preview the December issue of the journal www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/prev...
Previewing the December 2025 JCWE - The Journal of the Civil War Era
With this issue of the journal, we complete six years as coeditors and feel inspired by the work of so many of our professional colleagues who keep scholarly journals functioning and humbled by Bill B...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Richards Center CFA for the Mark & Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. For the 2026-27 academic year, the fellowship is open to scholars of the Civil War Era, broadly conceived, who study military or political history.
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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In today's Muster, Amanda Laury Kleintop explores the hidden history of compensated emancipation in Maryland www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/comp...
Compensated Emancipation in Maryland during the Civil War - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Historians have long marked President Abraham Lincoln’s January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation as the harbinger of immediate, uncompensated emancipation in both the Confederacy and the Border Stat...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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In today's Muster, JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever chats with J Matt Ward about his book Garden of Ruins (LSU Press, 2024) www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/11/jcwe...
JCWE Conversation with J Matt Ward - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In today’s Muster, J Matt Ward, Assistant Professor of History at Quincy University, chats with JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever about his book, Garden of Ruins (LSU Press, 2024).
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November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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In today's Muster, Clark North examines Stephen Douglas' role in shaping debates over citizenship and voting rights in antebellum Illinois www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/11/step...
Stephen Douglas’ Fictitious Case: Immigrant Voting in Antebellum Illinois - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Both sides agreed on the facts. Both sides, the Whigs and the Democrats,  agreed that on August 6, 1838, Jeremiah Kyle went to the window of a polling booth in Galena, Illinois. Both sides agreed that...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In today's Muster, contributor Kris Plunkett examines the rise of the New Lost Cause in Post-Civil Rights era alternative history stories www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/10/alte...
Alternative Fictions: The New Lost Cause in the Post-Civil Rights Era - The Journal of the Civil War Era
“What if the South Won the Civil War?” Answers to this question reflect shifts in collective memory as authors use artistic license to reframe the real-world past.[1] Mackinlay Kantor’s answer in 1960...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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In today's Muster, we introduce four new contributors to the site. Welcome Cassy Werking, Will Horne, Elliott, and Kris Plunkett to the Muster team! www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/10/intr...
Introducing New Muster Contributors - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In today’s Muster, we are excited to introduce four new contributors to our site. We are excited to welcome Cassy Werking, Will Horne, Elliott Martin, and Kris Plunkett to our team. They will contribu...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The history of the Civil War era is inextricably linked to indigenous history and Muster will always strive to be an outlet to highlight the ongoing conversations and important debates that reveal a deeper understanding of this nation's indigenous past
October 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Finally, Lindsey R. Peterson discussed her 2025 JCWE article on settler colonialism, western Unionism, and Indian boarding schools with Muster this past summer. Her groundbreaking article won the 2023 Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay award. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/04/lind...
Lindsey Peterson Interview on "'Home Builders': Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union Civil War Commemorations" - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In today’s Muster, associate editor Robert D. Bland speaks with Lindsey R. Peterson about her March 2025 JCWE article “‘Home-Builders’: Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Union C...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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In 2024, Paul Barba offered an deeply insightful investigation of the Office of Indian Affairs in Kansas during the height of the sectional crisis
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“Acts of Lawless Violence”: The Office of Indian Affairs, and the Coming of the Civil War in Kansas - The Journal of the Civil War Era
On November 26, 1855, Indian Agent John Montgomery hand delivered a notice to the wife of George W. Gray, warning the squatters that they were now “required to abandon your ‘claim’ or ‘location’ on th...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Next is Max Flormen's 2021 post on Indigenous Power and Slavery in the American Southwest www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2021/03/insu...
Insurrections, Indigenous Power, & The Empire for Slavery in the Southwest - The Journal of the Civil War Era
The realities of Indigenous power, marronage, and Mexico’s emancipation policies haunted Anglo-American visions of a white supremacist imperial order in the trans-Mississippi West. On May 25, 1836 Con...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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In honor of Indigenous People's Day, we would like to highlight some Muster posts that have examined Native American history during the Civil War era.

First, Michelle Anderson's 2019 essay on the honoring Indigenous Civil War veterans www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2019/11/hono...
Honoring and Remembering Indigenous Civil War Veterans in Public Spaces - The Journal of the Civil War Era
A groundbreaking ceremony for the National Native American Veterans Memorial was held on September 21, 2019—the fifteen-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian (N...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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In today's Muster, we announce that Dr. J. Jacob Calhoun has been selected as the recipient of the Anthony E. Kaye Essay Award for 2025. Congratulations Dr. Calhoun! www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/09/anno...
Announcing the 2025 Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award - The Journal of the Civil War Era
The Journal of the Civil War Era is pleased to announce that Dr. J. Jacob Calhoun has been selected as the recipient of the Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award for 2025. His winning essay is titled, ...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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In today's Muster, JCWE Associate Editor Robert Bland has a conversation with Caleb Gayle, author of Black Moses: A Sage of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State (Penguin, 2025). www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/09/conv...
Conversation with Caleb Gayle - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In today’s Muster, JCWE Associate Editor Robert Bland has a conversation with Caleb Gayle, Associate Professor of Journalism and Africana Studies at Northeastern University. Gayle is the author of Bla...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A reminder that the JCWE is seeking new contributors to Muster. The deadline for applications is October 1. If you are or anyone you know is interested in contributing to our ongoing online conversation on Civil War history, please apply!
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Muster is looking for new contributors! We want to include a wide range of voices from many different of perspectives. Please share the following call widely. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/08/call...
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. Mount!
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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In today's Muster, Gregory Downs and Kate Masur preview the September 2025 JCWE www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/09/prev...
Previewing the September 2025 JCWE - The Journal of the Civil War Era
This issue exemplifies the wide sweep of the Civil War Era as scholars understand it, and the success of the journal’s now fifteen-year-long effort to promote broadminded interrogation of the many for...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Muster is looking for new contributors! We want to include a wide range of voices from many different of perspectives. Please share the following call widely. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/08/call...
August 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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In today's Muster, JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever has a conversation with Shae Smith Cox about her book, The Fabric of the Civil War Society www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/08/conv...
Conversation Shae Smith Cox - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In today’s Muster, JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever has a conversation with Shae Cox Smith, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University about her book, The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Ba...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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In this week's Muster, Lindsey Peterson discusses teaching the Clinton Massacre with digital records and authentic tasks
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Teaching the Civil War: Analyzing the Clinton Massacre Using Authentic Tasks - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Today’s Muster continues our series Teaching the Civil War. Each post in the series has examined a different method that college and K-12 teachers have used to make the Civil War era come alive in the...
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August 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM