We are seeking contributors for a work provisionally entitled, The Civil War and Reconstruction Era: 1850s-1877 in the Conflicts in American History series. The work is under contract with Bruccoli Clark Layman/Manly, Inc. Contributors will receive $250 for essay chapters that will consist of the following elements: 1. 2000-3000 word background essay introducing the conflict, the people involved, the nature of the conflict and its resolution. 2. A specific chronology of the conflict 3. 10-20 historical documents both in facsimile and in reprinted text form, each with an objective head note (150-300 words) that correlates to the conflict 4. A list of recommended readings. 5. 2 illustrations that correlate to the conflict. Persons who are interested in becoming a contributor should contact: Dr. Brian Johnson bjohnson@claflin.edu (Please include CV)

LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT
Dred Scott, the Law, and the Status of Slaves
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Reconstruction Amendments
POLITICAL CONFLICT
Antebellum Sectional Compromises: The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Secession Crisis
The Reconstruction State Governments
The Compromise of 1877
The Rise of Machine Politics
CONFLICT IN THE WEST
Cowboys and ‘Indians’ (Native Americans)
Railroads and Industrialization
US Expansion
CONFLICT OF WAR
Blood and Battles
African Americans in the Military
Military Leadership in Confederate and Union
Domestic Terrorism and the Ku Klux Klan
SOCIAL CONFLICT
Abolitionism versus Proslavery Forces
Sectionalism: Northern Industry versus Southern Agriculture
Planters versus Freedmen: The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstructing the Southern Economy
The Women’s Movement
Sexuality and Miscegenation
Immigrants Old and New
RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND ETHICAL CONFLICT
Darwin and Science
Temperance Campaigns
Religion in the Age of Slavery and Freedom