Spring 2020
Vol. 10, No. 1
Features
Little Mac’s Big Fall
An inside look at the decision to remove George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac
By George C. Rable
The Great Dissenter
The rise and fall of Clement Vallandigham, the Democratic congressman who became the Lincoln administration’s most strident opponent
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Abolitionists at War
How the country’s anti-slavery reformers’ reaction to the Civil War helped transform the conflict into one for emancipation—and also provoked the collapse of their decades-old movement.
By Frank Cirillo
Departments
Editorial: Dissatisfaction, Dissent, and Fragmentation
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Travels: Road Trip: On the Trail of John Wilkes Booth
Voices: Pay Day
Preservation: Virtual Reality Meets the Civil War
Faces of War: A Steadfast Rebel
Figures: Lightening Their Load
Cost of War: An Iconic Image Earns Big
In Focus: An Early Image of War
Columns:
American Iliad: The Greatest Bards: Part I, by Mark Grimsley
Public History: History in the Digital Age, by Kevin M. Levin
Books & Authors:
The Five Best Books on Civil War Combat
By Andrew S. Bledsoe
The B&A Q&A
With Megan Kate Nelson
Parting Shot: A Battlefield Death Delayed