Kevin M. Levin and Megan Kate Nelson
Special Issue of Common-place
The Civil War at 150: Memory and Meaning

Adam Arenson
Back to the Battlefield
A Cultural Historian's View of Civil War Memorials at Appomattox, Fredericksburg, and Island Mound

Judith Giesberg
The Emilie Davis Diaries Project
Digital History and Civil War Commemoration

John Hennessy
Touchstone
The Sesquicentennial, the National Park Service, and a Changing Nation

Matthew C. Hulbert
The Regularly Irregular War
Domestic Violation, Women, and Remembrance in Missouri's Guerrilla Theater

Caroline E. Janney
Civil War Veterans and the Limits of Reconciliation

Ari Kelman
For Liberty and Empire
Remembering Sand Creek, Rethinking the Civil War

Chris Lese
Teaching Civil War Memory
Classroom Collaborations, Public Engagement and Adventure

Anne Marshall
"Gettysburg Wasn't His First Address"
Kentucky's Belated Embrace of Abraham Lincoln

Mary Niall Mitchell
All Things Were Working Together for My Deliverance
The Life & Times of Twelve Years a Slave

Manisha Sinha
Memory as History, Memory as Activism
The Forgotten Abolitionist Struggle after the Civil War

Stephen Berry
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

Daniel W. Crofts
Creating Two Nations
Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, and Elizabeth R. Varon, Secession Winter

R. Darrell Meadows
The (Not So) Distant Kinship of Race, Family, and Law in the Struggle for Freedom
Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard, Freedom Papers
Sydney Nathans, To Free a Family
Mark Auslander, The Accidental Slaveowner

Michael D. Pierson
Shall We Forget What They Did Here?
Earl J. Hess, The Civil War in the West
Earl J. Hess, The Knoxville Campaign

Matthew Taylor Raffety
Men of Great Skill on Many Waters
Bland Simpson, Two Captains from Carolina

Sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation
Sarah Beetham
"A Brave and Gallant Soldier"
Civil War Monuments and the Funerary Sphere

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Recovering and teaching neglected or forgotten texts

Joshua Brown

A graphic novel in several parts: Completed

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The American Antiquarian Society is pleased to announce the release by Readex of two new digitized collections of AAS material. The American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922 is a digital edition of the American Antiquarian Society’s remarkable Civil War materials, and features more than 13,500 diverse works, including books, broadsides, lithographs, maps, pamphlets, political cartoons, and photographs.

The American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922 will be introduced in March 2014. This fully searchable digital edition will offer access to approximately 3,500 works on nearly every aspect of slavery and abolition. Digitized in full-resolution color, these diverse materials include books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera; among them are a large number of works printed in the American South, as well as numerous works by black authors, from Olaudah Equiano to W.E.B. DuBois.