Matthew Stanley, Author

Matthew Stanley

Matthew Stanley, David McNally

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Matthew E. Stanley is an associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas, where he specializes in race and labor during the Civil War era, as well as Civil War memory. He is the author or editor of four books, including Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War (Illinois, 2021) and The Ragged Edge of Freedom: Race, Capitalism, and Class Struggle in Slavery's Borderland, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. In addition to numerous book chapters and academic articles, Stanley has also written extensively for various public-facing outlets, including Slate, Dissent, Counterpunch, and Jacobin.

David McNally on his new book, Slavery and Capitalism

Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (2025)In his new book, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, David McNally intervenes in ongoing debates

by Matthew Stanley, David McNally
December 20, 2025

LaborOnline

Workers and the U.S. Civil War

This is one of a small number of postings from the LAWCHA 2025 conference panels. If you have a summary from the conference,

by Matthew Stanley
July 16, 2025

LaborOnline

Labor in the Civil War

The current issue of Civil War History should be of interest to labor historians. Civil War History has generously allowed posting of my

by Matthew Stanley
October 22, 2024