Beginning this month, Muster is launching an exciting new feature called Field Dispatches. We have recruited a team of talented correspondents—each with a different historical focus and perspective—who will write posts that provide fresh insight into the Civil War era. In each dispatch, correspondents will share thoughts on research, teaching, current events, pop culture, and …
PAUL BARBA is an assistant professor of history at Bucknell University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2016. His first book project, tentatively titled Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands, tracks and analyzes the multiple forms of slaving violence that emerged, …
When citizens of a democratic society participate in electoral politics, they are often forced to determine the extent to which they are willing to compromise on their beliefs when voting. Voters sometimes find ideal candidates who share most if not all of their views, but oftentimes the best candidate in a given election holds a …
The Journal of the Civil War Era TABLE OF CONTENTS for PREVIOUS ISSUES December 2023 (vol. 13, no. 4) is a special issue: TRANSPACIFIC CONNECTIONS IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA, moderated by Hidetaka Hirota. Hirota opens the issue with an introduction that considers U.S. interaction with Asia and the Pacific shaped race relations, gender ideology, …
