Published: 1/24/14An Interview with Rachel SheldenBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Rachel Shelden, an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia College and State University and author of “Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil...
Published: 12/6/13An Interview with Diane SommervilleBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Diane Sommerville, an associate professor of history at Binghamton University and author of a recent article entitled “‘A Burden Too Heavy to Bear’: War Trauma, Suicide, and...
Published: 12/6/13An Interview with Matt DellingerBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Matt Dellinger, a writer and author of a piece entitled “Why I Fight” in the Civil War Monitor’s Fall 2013 issue. In this interview, Dellinger touches on...
Published: 11/15/13An Interview with Harold HolzerBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Harold Holzer, esteemed Lincoln scholar and the Roger Hertog Fellow at the New York Historical Society. In this interview, Holzer details his thoughts on the meaning of...
Published: 10/31/13An Interview with David GleesonBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with David Gleeson, a Reader in American History at Northumbria University and author of “The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America,” now...
Published: 10/28/13An Interview with Kathryn Shively MeierBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Kathryn Shively Meier, an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of “Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia,” published...
Published: 10/18/13An Interview with Elizabeth VaronBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Elizabeth Varon, the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and author of “Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of...
Published: 9/20/13An Interview with Ben Wright and Zach DresserBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Ben Wright and Zach Dresser, editors of “Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era,” forthcoming from LSU Press. In the interview, Wright and Dresser...
Published: 9/13/13An Interview with Margaret HumphreysBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Margaret Humphreys, the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine at Duke University and author of Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American...
Published: 9/6/13An Interview with Cate WyattBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Cate Wyatt, President of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership. In the interview, Wyatt discusses the extensive work of the partnership over a 180 mile stretch from...