Directory

Research Interests

• Southern History
• American Civil War

Current Projects

• A study of the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan.

Courses Taught

• American Civilization to 1865
• American South to 1865
• Literature of American History (Graduate)
• Literature of Southern History (Graduate)
• Graduate Proseminar on the Civil War

Awards and Honors

• Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in the Southern History, Louisiana State University (2014)
• SEC Faculty Achievement Award (2014)
• Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award (2012)
• Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor, University of Alabama (2003).
• President, Society of Civil War Historians (2004-8).

• Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 2015).
• God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
  • Recipient of the Jefferson Davis Award
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
• Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
  • Winner of the Lincoln Prize
  • Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History
  • Winner of the Jefferson Davis Award
  • Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman Southern History Award
  • A History Book Club Selection
• The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994).
  • A History Book Club Selection
• Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989).
  • Winner of the Jefferson Davis Award
  • Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize
• But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984).