A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War

Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War

The toll of civil conflict is largely borne by civilian populations, as warring factions target noncombatants through campaigns of violence. But significant variation exists in the extent to which warring groups abuse the civilian population: across conflicts, across groups, and within countries geographically and over time. Using a new dataset on fighting groups in Sierra Leone, this article a...

Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War

Foreign interventions and abuse of civilians during the Peruvian civil war

The international community has a declared intention to protect innocent civilians from direct and deliberate violence in civil conflicts, but its track record of actually doing so is mixed. Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number of civilians killed or wounded by participants in the civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. ...

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War

The Gray Ghost's sanctuary: civilians in Mosby's Confederacy during the Civil War

This work examines why civilians in Mosby's Confederacy supported the 43d Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. The tactics used by Mosby placed civilians at considerable risk with Union authorities, for his men did not live in a separate camp but stayed either in hideaways in the mountains or, more commonly, with families they knew in the area. The nature of the guerrilla warfare practiced by Mosby's...