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Aaron Phillips

Aaron Phillips

Specialty

  • United States History

Bio

Education

MA, The University of Alabama, 2016
BS, Georgia Southern University, 2012

Research Interests

  • 19th-Century U.S.
  • U.S. South
  • Civil War History
  • Antebellum U.S. Social History

Recent Publications

  • Review of Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains by Steven E. Nash, in Southern Historian 38 (Spring 2017): 101-3.

Current Projects

  • Researching unionism during the Civil War in the southern Appalachian communities, as well as political fluctuations between democratic and republican allegiances in these regions throughout the 19th-century.