Tuesday, February 24, 2026

JCWE: Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis

The Journal of the Civil War Era 16:1 (March 2026) is a special issue of interest to legal historians, assembled by its editors, Kate Masur, Northwestern University, and Gregory Downs, University of California, Davis.  In addition to a review essay and book reviews, it includes the following:

What Is To Be Done? Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis
Gregory P. Downs, Kate Masur

Burrowed in the Bloodline: The Stories That Sustain Me
Ryan W. Booth

The Specter of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Today
Justene Hill Edwards

Parodic Exaggeration, Transparent Lying, and Conspiracy Thinking in US History
Elaine S. Frantz

A-Mouldering in Our Graves?
John W. Hall

Survival with Sanity: Sarah Cook, Black Optimistic Realist
Scott Hancock

Lessons From My Grandfather's FBI File
Martha S. Jones

Slouching Towards Arlington House
W. Caleb Mcdaniel

The Current Situation of 2025: Thoughts on Media, the Public Sphere, and Education
Scott Reynolds Nelson

Storytelling, Digital Archives, and Black Women's Reproductive History in Real Time
Tamika Y. Nunley

A Guide to Surviving Interesting Times: Lessons from an Unpredictable Past
Erika Pani

We the People State of Mississippi": Letter Writing, Archiving, and Democracy from Reconstruction to Today
Lindsey R. Peterson

In 2025, an Echo of the 1800s: The Fight for Black Citizenship in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations
Alaina E. Roberts

Habits of Mind: How History Teaches Humility
Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Empathy, Humility, and Good Faith: Studying History in Times of Crisis
Margaret M. Storey

Meeting the Moment at Elizabeth City State University
Melissa N. Stuckey

The Freedman's Memorial
Robert K. Sutton

Exceptional Times
Michael Vorenberg

The Civil War's Unfinished Business
Fay A. Yarbrough

--Dan Ernst