Departments	Volume 51 Number 4, July/August 1998

In This Issue Rethinking the Civil War	One of the great misconceptions about the Civil War is that its outcome was determined on the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. by Peter A. Young
From the President Cosa Anniversary	Scholars from Europe and the United States gathered in mid-May at the American Academy in Rome to celebrate the fiftieth year of excavations at the Tuscan site of Cosa. by Stephen L. Dyson
Insight Eagle Eye at NASA	Tom Sever has championed the role of aerial and satellite imagery in preserving the Guatemalan jungle and its ancient sites. by James Wiseman.
Books Here's Looking at You	Reconstructing ancient faces (Making Faces, John Prag and Richard Neave. 256 pages. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. $39.95. ISBN 0-89096-784-9.) Reviewed by Wijnand Van Der Sanden (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's bookstore for the latest list of new books.)
At the Museums Thracian Glitter	A dazzling display of ancient art by Susan I Rotroff (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of museum exhibitions.)
Multimedia Power Places	A photographer's vision of sites that link the secular with the sacred is reviewed by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak. Keepers of the Spirit. (Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing Co., 1993)
Forum Corpse in the Curiosity Shop	The history of an ancient Egyptian mummy at Nonesuch House of antiques in Wiscasset, Maine by Andrew L. Slayman.

© 1998 by the Archaeological Institute of America www.archaeology.org/9807/abstracts/depts.html

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