“Civil War Scholarship in the 21st Century:” Selected Conference Proceedings
Editor’s Note 2
Guest Editor’s Note 5
Overflowing and Half-Full: Achievements and Gaps in Recent Civil War Military History
by Timothy Mulligan 6
Union and Confederate Biography: Where Do We Stand?
by John F. Marszalek and Craig L. Symonds 20
Exploding the Myth: American Civil War Novels at the End of the 20th Century
by Ursula Baumann 27
American Civil War Flags: Documents, Controversy, and Challenges
by Harold F. Mailand 32
Military Justice Makes Rattling Good History: Ethnicity and the Role of the Eighth New York Heavily Artillery
by Kathryn Lerch 39
“…to strive for loyalty”: German-Confederate Newspapers, the issue of slavery, and German ideological commitment
by Andrea Mehrländer 44
The Linguistic Legacy of the Civil War: How the Civil War Changed American English by Gregory Weeks 52
Teaching Resources
To What Extent Did the American Civil War Affect Civil Liberties?
by Kathry Lerch 57
Civics Education in Central Europe
by David Jervis 60
Book Reviews
Jeffrey W. Helsing, Johnson’s War/ Johnson’s Great Society: The Guns and Butter Trap
reviewed
by Peter L. Ling 64
Jacqueline Bobo, ed. Black Feminist Citicism
reviewed by Barbara Ryan 64
Robert A. Burchell (compiler). World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 16: United States of America
reviewed by Charles C. Kolb 65
Elizabeth Reis, ed. American Sexual Histories
reviewed by Tiffany Mc Kirdy 66
Wolfgang Hochbruck, ed. Achtundvierziger/Forty-Eighters: Die Deutsche Revolution von 1848/49, die Vereinigten Staaten und der Amerikanische Bügerkrieg
reviewed by Andrea Mehrländer 67
Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
reviewed by J. Kelly Robison 68