News

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

The Nau Center extends its congratulations to Elizabeth R. Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of History at the University of Virginia and member of the Center's Executive Council, for winning the 2020 Lincoln Prize bestowed annually by... [...]

Monday, January 27, 2020

We are grateful to our more than one hundred guests who came to hear historian A. Wilson Greene deliver the annual Crozer Lecture, “‘A Perfect Hell of Blood’: The Battle of the Crater.” For those who were not able to attend, the Small Special... [...]

Monday, January 13, 2020

Assistant Editor at the George Washington Papers and recent UVA PhD graduate Jeffrey Zvengrowski has just published his first book now available this month, Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870... [...]

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Recent UVA PhD Graduate Adrian Brettle's frist book, Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post–Civil War World (UVA Press, 2020), will be published in July. Brettle currently serves as Lecturer and Associate Director of the... [...]

Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Nau Center is pleased to announce the recipients of its short-term research fellowships for 2020. Our award winners will conduct their research at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special... [...]

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Join Carrie Janney and Gary Gallagher for an in depth look at Gettysburg and explore critical aspects of the most pivotal era in United States history. On the 6,000-acre battlefield, we will explore a storied military landscape that features such... [...]

Friday, September 13, 2019

On September 3, the College Foundation and the University of Virginia Library hosted an event in honor of John L. Nau III (College 1968... [...]

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

The University of Virginia Colonnade Club's Historic & Intellectual Programming Committee hosted Nau Center Managing Director William Kurtz for the second lecture in their popular Civil War Series on Thursday, August 15th, 2019 at Pavilion... [...]

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 2018) by Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean (UVA PhD 2003) was recently awarded two honors in addition... [...]

Monday, June 3, 2019

The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War by Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean (UVA PhD 2003), published by Harvard University Press, is the recipient of the 2018 Jefferson Davis Award for outstanding narrative works. Sheehan-... [...]