Lorien Foote - The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War

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Names: Foote, Lorien, 1969 editor. | Hess, Earl J., editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of the American Civil War / edited by Lorien Foote, and Earl J. Hess. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] | Series: Oxford handbooks series | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2021002152 (print) | LCCN 2021002153 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190903053 (hardback) | ISBN 9780197549988 (epub) | ISBN 9780190903060 | ISBN 9780190903077 Subjects: LCSH: United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Campaigns. | United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865. Classification: LCC E470 .O94 2021 (print) | LCC E470 (ebook) | DDC 973.7dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021002152LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021002153

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190903053.001.0001

Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess

Kristen T. Oertel

Craig L. Symonds

Ethan S. Rafuse

Barbara A. Gannon

Brian D. McKnight

Jason Phillips

David Silkenat

Lorien Foote

Thomas W. Cutrer

Stacey L. Smith

Clarissa W. Confer

Stephen D. Engle

Michael D. Pierson

Christopher S. Stowe

Timothy J. Orr

Kenneth W. Noe

John H. Matsui

D. Scott Hartwig

Barton A. Myers

Earl J. Hess

Earl J. Hess

Earl J. Hess

Christian B. Keller

Carol Reardon

Carl H. Moneyhon

Andrew S. Bledsoe

Aaron Astor

Lisa Tendrich Frank and Brooks D. Simpson

Earl J. Hess

A. Wilson Greene

T. Michael Parrish

Joseph M. Beilein Jr.

Anne J. Bailey

Benjamin Franklin Cooling

James Marten

Christopher Phillips

Elizabeth R. Varon

Earl J. Hess

Andrew F. Lang

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Aaron Astor earned his Ph.D. in history at Northwestern University. He is an associate professor of history at Maryville College, where he teaches courses on the Civil War, Southern history, African American history, and Appalachian history.

Anne J. Bailey earned her Ph.D. in history at Texas Christian University. She retired as a full professor from the History Department at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, where she taught courses on the Civil War, military history, and Southern history. She is the author/editor of eight books on the Civil War.

Joseph M. Beilein Jr. is the author of Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri. He is an associate professor of American history at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he teaches courses on the Civil War, gender, and military history.

Andrew S. Bledsoe earned his Ph.D. in history at Rice University. He is an associate professor in the Department of History, Political Science, and Humanities at Lee University, where he teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, Early America, and military history.

Clarissa W. Confer earned her Ph.D. in history at Pennsylvania State University and is the author of The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. She is a professor of history at California University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction and American Indian history and anthropology.

Benjamin Franklin Cooling earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor in the Department of Strategy at the Eisenhower School, National Defense University, where he teaches courses in national security, strategic resourcing, and acquisition/innovation.

Thomas W. Cutrer received his Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Arizona State University, where he taught courses on the American South, the American West, and U.S. military history.

Stephen D. Engle is a professor of history and director of the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency at Florida Atlantic University.

Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University. She teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction and war and society and uses her digital humanities project about three thousand escaped Union prisoners to teach undergraduate historical research methods classes.

Lisa Tendrich Frank is the author of The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Shermans March and coeditor, with LeeAnn Whites, of Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Florida.

Barbara A. Gannon earned her Ph.D. in history at Pennsylvania State University. She is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches courses on war and society.

A. Wilson Greenes career in public history and preservation spanned forty-four years. He is the author of six books on the Civil War and Southern history, including A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, the first of three volumes on the Petersburg Campaign.

D. Scott Hartwig was supervisory historian at Gettysburg National Military Park and retired from the National Park Service in 2014 after thirty-four years. He currently lives in Gettysburg.

Earl J. Hess is Emeritus Professor of History at Lincoln Memorial University, and is the author of twenty-four books about the Civil War, including Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies, Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation