Journal of the Civil War Era

The Journal of the Civil War EraVolume 3, Number 2June 2013TABLE OF CONTENTSEditor's Note William BlairArticlesStephen CushmanWhen Lincoln Met EmersonChristopher PhillipsLincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in the Western Border Slave States, 18611862Jonathan W. WhiteThe Strangely Insignificant Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Civil WarReview EssayYael SternhellRevisionism Reinvented? The Antiwar Turn in Civil War ScholarshipProfessional NotesGary W. GallagherThe Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis?Book ReviewsBooks ReceivedNotes on ContributorsThe Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.