Legal

Copyright and Permissions

What that covers

The articles, columns, reviews, photographs, illustrations, covers, page design, the arrangement of the archive, and the code of this website. The paper has published continuously since 1974, and the copyright runs across that whole run — through its years as a monthly newspaper and into the bimonthly magazine it became with the May–June 2024 issue.

Contributors keep their own rights

Much of what appears in Civil War News is written and photographed by contributors. They retain copyright in their own work; we publish it by arrangement with them. A request to reprint a signed article or a credited photograph may therefore be a request we have to pass along to its author — write to us and we will tell you who to ask, or ask for you.

What you may do without asking

Link to any page on this site, including individual articles and issues.
Quote a short passage — a sentence or two — with attribution toCivil War News, the author’s name, and a link to the article.
Print a page for your own reading, research or classroom use.
Cite us in scholarship, with credit.

What needs written permission

Reprinting an article, column or review in whole or in substantial part.
Reproducing a photograph, illustration, map or cover.
Republishing on another website, in a newsletter, or in a book.
Any commercial use, and any systematic or automated copying of the archive.

Permission for non-commercial, educational and preservation-society use is given readily, and usually quickly.

Asking

Write to[email protected]or call 1-800-777-1862. Tell us what you want to use, where it will appear, and for how long.

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If we have got something wrong

If your work appears here without your permission, or is credited to the wrong person, tell us. We will correct the credit or take the material down while it is sorted out.

Advertisements are the property of the advertisers who placed them. Their marks, logos and photographs remain theirs.

Names and marks

Civil War News is a publication of Historical Publications LLC, which also publishesMilitary Antique Collector and The Rampant Colt. Names and marks of other organisations appearing on this site belong to those organisations.