The Kent State University Press is pleased to announce that Dr. Lesley J. Gordon will be the next Editor of Civil War History, beginning with volume fifty-seven (2011). Published quarterly by the Kent State University Press, Civil War History is the foremost scholarly journal of the American Civil War. Now in its sixth decade, the journal focuses on social, cultural, economic, political, and military topics from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. A professor of history at the University of Akron, Dr. Gordon is joined by Associate Editor Kevin Adams (Kent State University), Book Review Editor Caroline Janney (Purdue University), and the following distinguished Board of Editors:

Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser University
Daniel Sutherland, University of Arkansas
Catherine Clinton, Queens University, Belfast
Susan-Mary Grant, New Castle University (UK)
Chandra Manning, Georgetown University
Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland—Baltimore County
J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida
Brian S. Wills, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University
Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University

The author of General George Picket in Life and Legend and the editor of The Kent State University Press series Civil War in the North, Lesley Gordon is the sixth editor of Civil War History. She succeeds William Blair of Pennsylvania State University.