Publications and Awards
Susannah U. Bruce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Sam Houston State University

Books
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The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865. NYU Press, 2006.

Editor, Ethnicity in the American Civil War. Under contract with University of Nebraska Press, Forthcoming 2008.

Hood's Texans: A History of the Texas Brigade and Southern Society in the American Civil War.   Under contract with Louisiana State University Press, American Civil War Series, Forthcoming 2009.

Articles
“The Fierce Pride of the Texas Brigade,” Civil War Times Illustrated, 46 (Sept. 2007): 32-29. 

“Lee's Resilient Longhorns at Little Round Top,” Civil War Times Illustrated, 46 (July 2007): 59-64.

"'Remember Your Country and Keep Up Its Credit': Irish-Americans and the Union War Effort, 1861-1865."  The Journal of Military History 69 (April 2005): 331-359.

“‘How Cola’ from Camp Funston: American Indians and the Great War.” Kansas History 24 (Summer 2001): 84-97.

"George Washington: Military Strategist" in Keith Krawczynski (ed.)  History in Dispute: The American Revolution. Detroit: St. James Press, 2003.

"Union Army, Women Soldiers" and "American Women in Espionage, Civil War" in Reina Pennington, ed. Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2003).

"Irish-Americans" and "Peter J. Osterhaus" in David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Eds., Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000).

Manuscript Reviewer

Oxford University Press
Oklahoma University Press
Southern Illinois University Press
University of Tennessee Press
The Journal of Military History
War in History

Civil War History
The Journal of the Early Republic
The Journal of Military History
The Journal of Southern History
Military History of the West
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Military History
Southwest Regional Coordinator, The Society for Military History

Academic Honors and Awards

Awarded the 2006 Ottis Lock Research Grant to support work on my book, Hood’s Texans: A History of the Texas Brigade and Southern Society in the American Civil War.  (LSU Press, forthcoming 2008).

Recipient of the Sam Houston State University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004.

Awarded a $4000 grant from the Irish Research Fund of the Irish American Cultural Institute in support of research, writing, and publications efforts for The Harp and the Eagle: Irish Volunteers in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Under contract with New York University Press, Forthcoming 2006. Award presented by His Excellency Sean O’Huiginn, Irish Ambassador to the United States, January 2001.

Recipient of the A. Bower Sageser Award for Excellence in Teaching, History Department, Kansas State University, 2001.

Archie K. Davis Fellow, The North Caroliniana Society in support of research on North Carolina's ethnic units in the American Civil War, 2000.

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Last Update: Fall 2007