The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.The Journal of the Civil War EraVolume 3, Number 3September 2013TABLE OF CONTENTSArticlesRobert Fortenbaugh Memorial LectureSteven HahnSlave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-StateBeth SchweigerThe Literate South: Reading before EmancipationBrian LuskeySpecial Marts: Intelligence Offices, Labor Commodification, and Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century AmericaReview EssayNicole Etcheson Microhistory and Movement: African American Mobility in the Nineteenth CenturyBook ReviewsBooks ReceivedProfessional NotesMegan Kate NelsonLooking at Landscapes of WarNotes 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