The Journal of the Civil War EraVolume 2, Number 2June 2012TABLE OF CONTENTSNew Approaches to Internationalizing the History of the Civil War Era: A Special IssueEditor's Note William BlairArticlesW. Caleb Mcdaniel & Bethany L. JohnsonNew Approaches to Internationalizing the History of the Civil War: An IntroductionGale L. KennyManliness and Manifest Racial Destiny: Jamaica and African American Emigration in the 1850sEdward B. RugemerSlave Rebels and Abolitionists: The Black Atlantic and the Coming of the Civil WarPeter KolchinComparative Perspectives on Emancipation in the U.S. South: Reconstruction, Radicalism, and RussiaSusan-Mary GrantThe Lost Boys: Citizen-Soldiers, Disabled Veterans, and Confederate Nationalism in the Age of People's WarBook ReviewsBooks ReceivedProfessional NotesMark W. Geiger“Follow the Money” Notes on ContributorsThe Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.