The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era are published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University. The series features books based on public lectures by a distinguished scholar, delivered over a three-day period each fall, as well as edited volumes developed from public symposia. These books chart new directions for research in the field and offer scholars and general readers fresh perspectives on the Civil War era.
Series Editor
Rachel Shelden, The Pennsylvania State University
Founding Editor
William A. Blair, The Pennsylvania State University
UNC Press Sponsoring Editor
Mark Simpson-Vos, Editorial Director
mark_simpson-vos@unc.edu

Citizens of a Stolen Land
A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: April 2023

Count the Dead
Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: May 2022

Rites of Retaliation
Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
By Lorien Foote
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: October 2021

The Second American Revolution
The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: November 2019

Sex and the Civil War
Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: February 2019

With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: February 2018

Making Freedom
The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: August 2017

Lincoln’s Proclamation
Emancipation Reconsidered
Edited by William A. Blair , Karen Fisher Younger
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: February 2012

Tales from the Haunted South
Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
By Tiya Miles
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: August 2017

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
By Mark A. Noll
Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Published: February 2015