The Nau Center is pleased to announce the addition of a new board member, Jonathan W. White of Christopher Newport University. White had previously served as a book prize committee member for our 2016 award and will also be the author of our first Nau Center blog post. Here is a brief biography and description of Dr. White's career:

White is associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and is the author of several books, including Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman, and Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln, which was a finalist for both the Lincoln Prize and Jefferson Davis Prize, a “best book” in Civil War Monitor, and the winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute’s 2015 book prize.  He has published more than seventy-five articles, essays and reviews, and is the winner of the 2005 John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article in Civil War History, the 2010 Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize, and the 2012 Thomas Jefferson Prize for his Guide to Research in Federal Judicial History (2010).  He is vice president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association, and he is a member of the Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council.  His next book, Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in March 2017.  Check out his website at www.jonathanwhite.org/.