An Interview with Elizabeth Leonard

 

Our interview with Elizabeth Leonard, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College and author of Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. In this Lincoln Prize winning work, Dr. Leonard offers a fuller assessment of this complex man that goes beyond his role in the Lincoln Assassination trial. Dr. Leonard also discusses her approach to teaching the Civil War that calls for her students to question what they assume they know about the war.

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COHEN: Reconstructing the Campus (2012)

Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War by Michael David Cohen. University of Virginia Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 9780813933177. $45.00. Reconstructing the Campus examines the effect of the Civil…