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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-... [...]
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The Nau Center for Civil War History’s 2019 Signature Conference, "Theaters of War," took place at UVA’s Small Special Collections Library on Friday, March 29, 2019. Our conference... [...]
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Rachel Shelden, a 2011 graduate of UVA's doctoral degree in History and current associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma, has been named director of the George and... [...]
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce Amy Murrell Taylor’s Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (University of North Carolina,... [...]
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
On April 5, Amy Murrell Taylor, a 2001 graduate of our History PhD program, was awarded both the "Avery Craven Award" and the "Merle Curti Social History Award" at this year's Oraganization of American Historians conference held this year in... [...]
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Peter Luebke, a recent UVA PhD History graduate currently serving as an historian at the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, just published an new edition of... [...]
Monday, March 18, 2019
UVA History PhD Candidate Brianna Kirk was recently awarded the best student paper award from the Virginia Forum's annual conference last week for her paper titled, "'No Safety for Union Men': The Norfolk Race Riot of 1866 and Military Occupation... [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
"Encompassing Multitudes: The Song of Walt Whitman" is now open at UVA's Small Special Collections Library. The exhibition celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Walt Whitman and pays tribute to the incalculable cultural influence of... [...]
Friday, February 15, 2019
In March 2019, the University of North Carolina Press will release Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians. Edited by the Nau Center's founding director, Gary W. Gallagher, and historian J.... [...]
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