News
Thursday, February 29, 2024
The Nau Civil War Center is excited to welcome five new members to our Advisory Board: Amy Murrell Taylor, Lorien Foote, Hannah Rosen, Jonathan S. Jones, and Zachery A. Fry.
Amy Murrell Taylor is T. Marshall Hahn Jr.... [...]
Monday, February 5, 2024
Congratulations to Frank J. Cirillo (UVA PhD 2017), whose book, The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union (LSU Press), is a finalist for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize!
The Lincoln... [...]
Friday, November 3, 2023
Graduate student Katie Wu will discuss "'A Listening Project': Place-based Oral Histories and Testimonies for Now and Later" at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture's History Matters... [...]
Friday, November 3, 2023
Congratulations to Frank J. Cirillo (UVA PhD 2017), who published his first book, The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union, with Louisiana State University Press this month!
From the... [...]
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
The Nau Center is pleased to announced that Professor Elizabeth R. Varon's new book, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, is now available for pre-order from Simon & Schuster! From the book's description:
... [...]Wednesday, July 5, 2023
The Nau Civil War Center held its second 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 was directed by Gary W. Gallagher and... [...]
Thursday, April 20, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Elizabeth D. Leonard, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emerita, at Colby College, has won the 2023 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History for her new book, Benjamin... [...]
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... [...]
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