Minneapolis is Gettysburg? Tim Walz is Jeff Davis? See our brief piece in The Conversation on why folks use the Civil War to make sense of current events. @univnebpress.bsky.social #CivilWar #Minneapolis #ICE theconversation.com/from-gettysb...

Cover art for our volume “They Are Dead and Yet The Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America” to be published in February with Nebraska Press!

The Antietam Memorial Illumination is a somber spectacle. Seeing the battlefield landscape covered with 23,000 luminaries to honor the battle’s casualties gives a powerful visual illustration to the deadliest day in our nation’s history.

Calling all history teachers. This is a great opportunity to work with some excellent Civil War scholars @naucivilwar.bsky.social at the University of Virginia next summer. 🗃️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...