Education

Ph.D., Rice University

Research interests
Antebellum South

American Civil War

Military History

Teaching areas

Virginia history, Civil War & Reconstruction, Military history

Books:

Racial Reckoning: The American Civil War Era, Routledge, Forthcoming December 2021.

Virginia On My Mind: 400 Years of History, Cognella Press, 2019.

Jefferson Davis’ Final Campaign: Confederate Nationalism and the Fight to Arm Slaves, Mercer University Press, 2017.

The Southern Albatross: Race and Ethnicity in the American South, edited with Randal L. Hall, Mercer University Press, 1999.