Civil War Consortium Annual Summer Conference

David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. His many field-defining books include American Oracle, A Slave No More, Race and Reunion, and Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize.

Adrian Brettle is a Lecturer of History at Sam Houston State University, Co-Book Review Editor of The Journal of Southern History, and the author of Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World, which was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

Matthew J. Clavin is Professor of History at the University of Houston. His books include Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War, Touissant L’Ouverture and the American Civil War, and Aiming for Pensacola.

Brian Matthew Jordan is Associate Professor of History, Chair of the Department of History, and Co- Director of the SHSU Civil War Consortium. His many books include Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.

Krista Kinslow received her Ph.D. at Boston University under the tutelage of Nina Silber and has taught at the University of Indianapolis. She has published a chapter on the Centennial Exhibition in Vernon Burton and Brent Morris, eds., Reconstruction at 150 (University of Virginia Press).

Andrew F. Lang is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University. He is the author of A Contest of Civilizations, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, and In The Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America, which won the Tom Watson Brown Book Award.

Wayne Motts is the President and CEO of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is a longtime Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park and the author or coauthor of several books, including Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History.

Evan C. Rothera is Assistant Professor of History, Director of Graduate Studies in History at Sam Houston State University, and Co-Director of the SHSU Civil War Consortium. He is the author of Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas, which received the Wabash Literary Prize, the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award, and was a finalist for the William Colby Award.

Anne Sarah Rubin is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her first book, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, received the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. She was a co-author on the CD-ROM, The Valley of the Shadow, which received the e-Lincoln Prize.

Rebecca Capobianco Toy is a public historian who received her Ph.D. in History at The College of William & Mary. She is the author of Landscapes of Freedom: Restoring the History of Emancipation and Citizenship in Yorktown, Virginia, 1861-1940.

Ann Tucker is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Georgia and the author of Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy, a 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.