Interview

Hello H-CivWar readers,

today we feature Carole Emberton to talk about her Journal of Southern History article "Unwriting the Freedom Narrative: A Review Essay" (JSH 82, May 2016, 377-394).

Carole Emberton is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Buffalo. She is the author of Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).

The interview was conducted by guest editor Patrick Kelly.

Hello H-CivWar readers,

today we feature Stephanie McCurry to talk about her new book Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War.

Stephanie McCurry is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University. She is the author of Masters of Small Worlds and Confederate Reckoning.

Stephanie, could you give our readers a brief idea of how this book came about and what your argument is?

Take 5 with...Dr. Agnieszka Sobocinska (Senior Research Fellow, Monash University)

1. What's your current research project?  

Today we continue the interview with the editors of The Civil War on the Rio Grande, Roseann Bacha-Garza (Editor), Christopher L. Miller (Editor), Russell K. Skowronek.

Friends:

The Scholarly Kitchen blog has an interview with Jeff MacKie-Mason, University Librarian and Professor of Information and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley concerning the recent decision of the University of California library system to break off its relationship with Elsevier and stop subscribing to Elsevier journals.  You can read the interview here:

Reposted from H-CivWar (editor interview):

• Roseann Bacha-Garza, Christopher L. Miller, Russell K. Skowronek, editors of The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876

Hello H-CivWar readers,

today we feature Joseph J. Casino to talk about his new piece in Civil War History, “‘Plenty of Work to Do’: Correspondence of an Illinois Farm Girl during the American Civil War” (Civil War History 65:1 (March 2019)).

Joseph J. Casino is Adjunct Professor of History at Villanova University since 1978. He also served for thirty-four years as director of the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. 

Hello H-CivWar readers,

today we feature Roseann Bacha-Garza, Christopher L. Miller, and Russell K. Skowronek, the editors of The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 (Texas A&M University Press, 2019) Link