Research Interests

Veterans; U.S. Military History before 1900; Civil War; Memory

Publications

Books

• Americans Remember Their Civil War. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2017.
• Co-author, Pennsylvania: A Military History with William A. Pencak, Christian B. Keller, Westholme Publishing, 2016.  
• The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Articles/Essays

• “A Debt We Never Can Pay, A Debt We Refuse to Repay: Civil War Veterans in American Memory,” South Central Review (Johns Hopkins University Press), summer 2016.

   

• “‘They Call Themselves Veterans’: Civil War and Spanish War Veterans and the Complexities of Veteranhood,” Journal of the Civil War Era, December 2015.

   

• “Mississippi River Campaign,” Blackwell Companion to the Civil War. Aaron Dean Sheehan, ed., February 2014.

Awards

Honorable Mention, Lincoln Prize 2012, recognized by the Gilder Lehman Institute and Gettysburg College.

Finalist, Jefferson Davis Prize 2012, given by the Museum for the Confederacy.

Wiley-Silver Prize 2012 (University of Mississippi/Center for Civil War Research) Best First Book on the Civil War

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026