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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988990
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The June 2026 issue brings together innovative scholarship that reflects both the vitality of Civil War studies and the intellectual challenges currently facing the field. The contributions gathered here move beyond familiar interpretive binaries and ask readers to reconsider language, temporality, and scale—whether political, environmental, or historiographical—in shaping how we understand the war and its aftermath.This issue features a major article by Gwion Wyn Jones, "Radical Reconstruction and the Language of Conservatism in the United States, 1865–1877," which makes a fascinating and important intervention in Civil War–era political history. Jones traces how Republicans during Reconstruction strategically
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/42/image/coversmallEditor's Overview2026-04-30text/htmlen-USEditor's Overview2026-04-302026TWOProject MUSE®44472026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-30Radical Reconstruction and the Language of Conservatism in the United States, 1865–1877
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988991
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Since the 2010s, scholars of the Civil War era have developed a new approach to the study of American conservatism that focuses on uncovering how men and women understood what it meant to be a conservative at the time. They have achieved this primarily by retracing the many ways contemporaries used the word conservative itself in everyday public and private political discourse, taking care to situate any examples of its use in their relevant social and cultural contexts.1 This methodology has provided a welcome alternative to the approach taken by scholars who measure the conservatism of their historical subjects by determining whether they conform to a normative definition of the word, a strategy that almost
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/42/image/coversmallRadical Reconstruction and the Language of Conservatism in the United States, 1865–18772026-04-30text/htmlen-USRadical Reconstruction and the Language of Conservatism in the United States, 1865–18772026-04-302026TWOProject MUSE®1534562026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-30The Past, Present, and Future of Civil War Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988992
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Each year on November 19—the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address—Gettysburg College hosts the annual Fortenbaugh Lecture, a campus-wide event dedicated to historical reflection and scholarly exchange. When the Fortenbaugh Committee met in the spring of 2025 to select a speaker, I proposed the Sixty-Third Annual Fortenbaugh event be a roundtable conversation rather than a single lecture—to appeal to the broadest possible audience, represent a range of perspectives, and foster a thoughtful discussion about the past, present, and future of the field.Courses on the Civil War remain widely popular at many universities and colleges, especially in the US South. In other parts of the country, however—based largely on my
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/42/image/coversmallThe Past, Present, and Future of Civil War Studies2026-04-30text/htmlen-USThe Past, Present, and Future of Civil War Studies2026-04-302026TWOProject MUSE®933332026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-30