Journal of CW Era

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In today's Muster, Karl Miller examines the Reconstruction-era roots of the Animal Rights Movement journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/02/a-tent…

In today's Muster, ongoing contributor Elliott Martin writes about Henry 'Box' Brown and Richmond's public history landscape journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/henry-…

In today's Muster, we are announcing a call for gradate student submissions journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/muster…

In today's Muster, Robert Bland examines the legacy of the Reconstruction generation journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/rememb…

In today's Muster, @RichardPCondon explores the recent Netflix series Death by Lightning and its portrait of James Garfield as the last "Lincoln Republican" journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/death-…

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 journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/canada…

In today's Muster, Kate Masur and Gregory Downs preview the December issue of the journal journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/previe…

In today's Muster, Amanda Laury Kleintop explores the hidden history of compensated emancipation in Maryland journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/compen…

In today's Muster, JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever chats with J Matt Ward about his book Garden of Ruins (LSU Press, 2024) journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/11/jcwe-c…

In today's Muster, Clark North examines Stephen Douglas' role in shaping debates over citizenship and voting rights in antebellum Illinois journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/11/stephe…

In today's Muster, contributor Kris Plunkett examines the rise of the New Lost Cause in Post-Civil Rights era alternative history stories journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/10/altern…

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! journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/10/introd…

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

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. journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/04/lindse…

In 2024, Paul Barba offered an deeply insightful investigation of the Office of Indian Affairs in Kansas during the height of the sectional crisis journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/07/acts-o…

Next is Max Flormen's 2021 post on Indigenous Power and Slavery in the American Southwest journalofthecivilwarera.org/2021/03/insurr…

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, please check out Michelle Anderson's 2019 essay on the honoring Indigenous Civil War veterans. journalofthecivilwarera.org/2019/11/honori…

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! journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/09/announ…

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). journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/09/conver…