The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era is an open access, peer-reviewed, undergraduate journal. The journal annually publishes undergraduate papers on the Civil War Era and its lasting memory. We are interested in academic essays, public history essays, and book reviews broadly relating to the American Civil War. For further details on submitting your work, please see About this journal.
Current Volume: Volume 10 (2020)
Complete Issue
Front Matter
Letter from the Editors
Cameron T. Sauers and Zachary A. Wesley
Articles
"Some Personal Coloring." Examining the Falsehoods of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at Gettysburg
Hans G. Myers
Robert Smalls and the Steamship Planter: Turning the Tides for the Union Military in the Civil War
William K. Donaldson
The Unspoken Demands of Slavery: The Exploitation of Female Slaves in the Memphis Slave Trade
Sarah W. Eiland
Frances Peter: A Loyal Woman of Kentucky
Erica Uszak
Editors
- Editors-in-Chief
- Zachary A. Wesley
- Cameron T. Sauers
- Editors
- Brandon R. Katzung Hokanson
- Garrett Kost
- Carolyn Hauk
- Christopher T. Lough
- Brandon R. Neely
- Jaeger R. Held
- Wesley Cline
- R.J. Lehal
- Marissa Honeycutt
- Pierce H. Susco