News

Thursday, June 24, 2021

If you missed our presentation during the Virginia Festival of the Book, you are in luck! "Confederate Ambitions," hosted by Will Kurtz, our former Managing Director, with panelists Ann Tucker and Adrian Brettle, will replay tomorrow, June 26th,... [...]

Monday, May 10, 2021

We are delighted to announce that historian Thavolia Glymph has won the 2021 John Nau Prize for best book in the American Civil War Era for her book The Women's Fight: The Civil War Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation... [...]

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of our second digital project, UVA... [...]

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

The Nau Center is pleased to announced that Nau Center Director Caroline E. Janney's new book, Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox (UNC Press, 2021), is now available for pre-order. From the book's... [...]

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

As the 2020 winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for her book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2019), the Nau Center's Dr. Elizabeth R. Varon gave an address at the 2021 Lincoln Book... [...]

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

On April 13, the Nau Center officially launched its Black Virginians in Blue digital project.This project is dedicated to telling the largly unknown stories of the 250 Black soldiers and 6 Black sailors from Albemarle County and Charlottesville,... [...]

Friday, April 9, 2021

Muster, the blog of the Journal of the American Civil War Era, has recently published a preview of our Black Virginians in Blue digital project by digital historian,... [...]

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

UVA historian and Nau Center affiliate faculty member Justene Hill Edwards has just published a new book, "Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina" (Columbia University Press, 2021).

From the... [...]

Friday, March 19, 2021

The March 1865 arrival of Union troops to UVA and Charlottesville, the liberation of the area’s enslaved community, and the lives of local Black men who served as Union soldiers and sailors were at the center of a panel conversation commemorating... [...]

Monday, March 1, 2021

Second Year UVA student Gideon French has been awarded a $10,000 flash fund grant from the Jefferson Trust, a donor-led initiative of the U.Va. Alumni Association

The grant will fund his digital project "Hands-On History: Digitizing,... [...]