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Friday, March 24, 2023
Nau Center Director Caroline E. Janney will discuss "Going Home: Lee’s Army after Appomattox” on March 25 at Virginia Tech's Civil War Weekend! The lecture draws upon her latest book, Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after... [...]
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The 2023 Virginia Forum, which meets at Shepherd University on March 16-18, features presentations from several Nau Center scholars:
- March 17 at 8:30am: Managing Director Brian C. Neumann will participate in a panel on “A Digital... [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Wondrium recently released "The Great Tours: Civil War Battlefields," a virtual course featuring Nau Center Director Caroline E. Janney and Gettysburg College professor Peter S. Carmichael.
From the course website:
"In The... [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Ian Iverson won the 2023 Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, "Moderate Men and Conservative Influences: Illinois and the Politics of Union, 1854-1861." This prize, presented by the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Abraham... [...]
Thursday, October 27, 2022
The annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, which takes place in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 10-13, features presentations from several UVA graduate students and alumni.
On November 11 at 9:30am, PhD candidate... [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
On October 26, Professor Lorien Foote of Texas A&M University delivered 2022-23 Crozer Lecture, entitled "The Sternest Feature of War: The Ritual of Retaliation in the American Civil War." As Professor Foote explained, "commanders in... [...]
Thursday, June 30, 2022
The Nau Civil War Center held its first annual Summer Teacher Seminar this June. Twenty-four middle school and high school teachers from across the country travelled to UVA for the week-long seminar, which examined the course, consequences, and... [...]
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
The 2022 Society of Civil War Historians Conference, which meets in Philadelphia on June 2-4, features presentations from several UVA professors, graduate students, and alumni.
On June 3 at 8:30am, Aaron Sheehan-Dean (PhD... [...]
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
We are delighted to announce that Kate Masur, Professor of History at Northwestern University, has won the 2022 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History for her new book, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights... [...]
Monday, May 9, 2022
Congratulations to Professor Justene Hill Edwards, a member of our Advisory Board, for receiving a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship! This prestigious award will fund her book project, "The Freedman's Bank: The Challenges to Black Economic Equality... [...]
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