How Historians Remember the Civil War

How Historians Remember the Civil War Many people tend to view Civil War commemoration as an almost strictly public act where individuals, civic organizations, veterans groups, heritage societies, and others participate in celebrations and ceremonies to remember the over 600,000 Union and C...

Old Buck and the Political Crisis of the 1850s

James Buchanan has never enjoyed a good reputation among historians and president-raters; most people rate his presidency at or near the worst in American history. Yet even as students of the 1850s note his shortcomings, many—if not most—of the scholars of this period qualify their answer. For Jam...

Preserving the Written Word

Preserving the Written Word The recent death of historian John Y. Simon marks the passing of one of the nation\u27s finest documentary editors and gives us a chance to reflect not only on the work of a remarkable historian, but also on what that work means to scholars of the Civil War era

New Directions in Civil War History

Once in a generation it seems, a historian writes a book that literally changes the landscape of the history of the Civil War era. Scholars dream of producing that one seminal book that changes the way people understand a portion of our history. And readers eagerly await the next great book that w...

Commemorating the Life of Lincoln

Two hundred years ago this month, our nation\u27s sixteenth president was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. As so many Americans learned in grade school and have read in numerous books, Lincoln rose from those humble beginnings to become president of a nation in the midst of its...

The Hymenoptera Genome Database

The Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD) is an informatics resource supporting genomics of hymenopteran insect species. This relational database implements open-source software and components providing access to curated data contributed by an extensive, active research community. HGD includes the genome sequences and annotation data of honey bee _Apis mellifera_ and its pathogens ("http://BeeBase.org":BeeBase.org) the parasitoid wasp _Nasonia vitripennis_ ("http://NasoniaBase.org":NasoniaBase.org) and a portal to the genomes of six species of ants. Together, these species cover approximately 200 MY in the phylogeny of Hymenoptera, allowing to leverage genetic, genome sequence, and gene expression data, as well as the biological knowledge of related model organisms. The availability of resources across an order greatly facilitates comparative genomics and enhances our understanding of the biology of agriculturally important Hymenoptera species through genomics. HGD has supported research contributions from an extensive community from almost 80 institutions in 14 countries. Community annotation efforts are made possible thanks to a remote connection to a Chado database by Apollo Genome Annotation client software. Curated data at HGD includes predicted and annotated gene sets supported with evidence tracks such as ESTs/cDNAs, small RNA sequences and GC composition domains. Data at HGD can be queried using genome browsers and / or BLAST/PSI-BLAST servers, and it may also be downloaded to perform local searches. We encourage the public to access and contribute data to HGD at "http://HymenopteraGenome.org":HymenopteraGenome.org.

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Manifest Destinies: America\u27s Westward Expansion and the Road to Civil War

Re-examining American Expansion and the Coming of War America’s truly breathtaking westward expansion has captivated the attention of the nation’s citizens since those heady years preceding the Civil War. So too Manifest Destiny and its discontents have drawn generations of historians ...

Putting the Civil War in Context

Putting the Civil War in Context Context. Students of the Civil Warùand of any branch of history for that matterùalways search for the context in which events happened. Historians have always taken special interest in why the Civil War came, what provoked armed conflict between North a...

The Changing Face of Civil War Studies

The Changing Face of Civil War Studies Welcome to the new Civil War Book Review! What you see in this new issue is the culmination of an extensive redesign process we have undertaken to make the CWBR site a better experience for our readers. Of course, one will immediate...

Reassessing Lincoln and the Civil War Era

In this issue of CWBR, we continue our celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The bicentennial year has prompted scores of historians to reassess the life of the sixteenth president, the world he lived in, and the nation he reshaped over the course of his presidential ad...