In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editors’ Note

What Is To Be Done? Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis

Gregory P. Downs, Kate Masur
pp. 1-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982900
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Articles

Burrowed in the Bloodline: The Stories That Sustain Me

Ryan W. Booth
pp. 8-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982901
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The Specter of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Today

Justene Hill Edwards
pp. 13-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982902
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Parodic Exaggeration, Transparent Lying, and Conspiracy Thinking in US History

Elaine S. Frantz
pp. 19-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982903
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A-Mouldering in Our Graves?

John W. Hall
pp. 30-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982904
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Survival with Sanity: Sarah Cook, Black Optimistic Realist

Scott Hancock
pp. 42-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982905
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Lessons From My Grandfather's FBI File

Martha S. Jones
pp. 58-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982906
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Slouching Towards Arlington House

W. Caleb Mcdaniel
pp. 68-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982907
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The Current Situation of 2025: Thoughts on Media, the Public Sphere, and Education

Scott Reynolds Nelson
pp. 82-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982908
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Storytelling, Digital Archives, and Black Women's Reproductive History in Real Time

Tamika Y. Nunley
pp. 93-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982909
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A Guide to Surviving Interesting Times: Lessons from an Unpredictable Past

Erika Pani
pp. 103-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982910
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We the People State of Mississippi": Letter Writing, Archiving, and Democracy from Reconstruction to Today

Lindsey R. Peterson
pp. 114-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982911
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In 2025, an Echo of the 1800s: The Fight for Black Citizenship in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations

Alaina E. Roberts
pp. 124-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982912
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Habits of Mind: How History Teaches Humility

Aaron Sheehan-Dean
pp. 137-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982913
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Empathy, Humility, and Good Faith: Studying History in Times of Crisis

Margaret M. Storey
pp. 144-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982914
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Meeting the Moment at Elizabeth City State University

Melissa N. Stuckey
pp. 151-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982915
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The Freedman's Memorial

Robert K. Sutton
pp. 162-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982916
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Exceptional Times

Michael Vorenberg
pp. 172-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982917
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The Civil War's Unfinished Business

Fay A. Yarbrough
pp. 185-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982918
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Review Essay

Trauma, Trauma Everywhere: Race, Violence, and Pathology in the Study of American Slavery

Carole Emberton
pp. 193-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982919
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Book Reviews

Yale and Slavery: A History by David W. Blight (review)

Maurice Adkins
pp. 212-214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982920
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Run for Your Lives! Gender and the Runaway Scrape by Linda English (review)

Max Flomen
pp. 214-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982921
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A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South by Maria Angela Diaz (review)

Kris Klein Hernández
pp. 217-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982922
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Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance by Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown (review)

Rachel Williams
pp. 219-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982923
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An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South by Robert K. D. Colby (review)

Maria R. Montalvo
pp. 222-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982924
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A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam's Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age by Frank W. Garmon Jr. (review)

Stanley Schwartz
pp. 224-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982925
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Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade by Jonathan W. White (review)

Laura June Davis
pp. 227-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982926
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black (review)

Kelly D. Mezurek
pp. 229-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982927
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The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1–17, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)

Christopher Thrasher
pp. 231-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982928
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Justice for Ourselves: Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery by John G. Deal, Marianne E. Julienne, and Brent Tarter (review)

Jonathan Lande
pp. 234-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982929
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The Colfax County War: Violence and Corruption in Territorial New Mexico by Corey Recko (review)

J. Jacob Calhoun
pp. 236-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982930
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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don H. Doyle (review)

Andrew F. Lang
pp. 239-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982931
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The Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation by Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor (review)

Mary Beth Mathews
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982932
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Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking by Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli (review)

Christian McWhirter
pp. 243-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982933
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After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia ed. by Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglas (review)

Hilary N. Green
pp. 246-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982934
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Books Received

Books Received

pp. 249-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982935
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Notes on Contributors

Contributors

pp. 251-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2026.a982936
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