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Professor Elizabeth Varon wins inaugural American Battlefield Trust Prize for History

Professor Elizabeth Varon wins inaugural American Battlefield Trust Prize for History

The inaugural $50,000 American Battlefield Trust Prize for History has been awarded to historian Elizabeth Varon for “Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South,” a richly reported biography of the complicated Civil War leader who after the war encouraged an examination of the roots of the conflict and advocated for racial reconciliation.

Dr. James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Battle Cry of Freedom” and one of the prize’s three judges, called Varon’s work “a literary and research achievement.” “The special virtue of this book is it tells us the whole story of Longstreet, for the decades after the war as well as the war itself,” said McPherson, professor emeritus at Princeton University. “It’s beautifully crafted and original in its good many insights.”

Varon’s work was selected from among nearly 100 entries for the new prize, which seeks to underscore the irreplaceable perspective and primary research value of preserving the battlefields on which our nation was forged – during conflicts which we still seek to better understand today.

The works of two other authors also were recognized with $2,500 honorable mentions: D. Scott Hartwig’s “I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign” and Friederike Baer’s “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.”

Full announcement can be read here: https://www.battlefields.org/news/historian-elizabeth-varons-longstreet-biography-wins-inaugural-american-battlefield-trust

The inaugural $50,000 American Battlefield Trust Prize for History has been awarded to historian Elizabeth Varon for “Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South,” a richly reported bi

Professor Joseph Seeley discusses the Korean War on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning

Professor Joseph Seeley discusses the Korean War on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning

Professor Joseph Seeley discussed the significance and legacy of "6-25" on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning. 

"On this day, 74 years ago, the Korean War began, a conflict often overlooked in history. Join us in reading “June 25th: Remembering the Forgotten Korean War”, an exploration of the war’s enduring impact and significance in our UVA community. Let’s remember and learn together."

The article can be read here: https://engagement.virginia.edu/learn/thoughts-from-the-lawn/20240625-Seeley?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2SGwKaURpW-mNbLOllNkQTV7KWX8WP7TZpxmLQF_0yeDIif3QNTWDzK_Q_aem_hkMeEO1pFEWoGgSRs4EITQ

Professor Joseph Seeley discussed the significance and legacy of "6-25" on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning. 

Professor Deborah S. King featured in Mother Jones Article

Professor Deborah S. King featured in Mother Jones Article

Professor Deborah S. Kang was featured in Tim Murphy's article, "The Border Patrol Is an Engine of Crisis—and Has Been Since the Beginning," for Mother Jones. Kang discussed the history of the Border Patrol. 

Read the article here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/border-patrol-turns-100-anniversary-cb-hudspeth/ 

Professor Deborah S. Kang was featured in Tim Murphy's article, "The Border Patrol Is an Engine of Crisis—and Has Been Since the Beginning," for Mother Jones.

Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in WalletHub article

Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in WalletHub article

Professor Justene Hill Edwards was featured in WalletHub's recent article about State Economies with the Most Racial Equality!

 

You can find it here: https://wallethub.com/edu/state-economies-with-most-racial-equality/75810#expert=Justene_Hill_Edwards

Professor Justene Hill Edwards was featured in WalletHub's recent article about State Economies with the Most Racial Equality!

 

Publications

The Long 1989

Decades of Global Revolution

Cool Town

How Athens, Georgia Launched the Alternative Scene and Changed American Culture

The Cigarette

A Political History

Petersburg to Appomattox

Petersburg to Appomattox

The End of the War in Virginia

To the End of Revolution

The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959

Lens of War

Lens of War

Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

The Associational State

The Associational State

American Governance in the Twentieth Century

Discovering Tuberculosis

Discovering Tuberculosis

A Global History, 1900 to the Present

Enlightenment Underground

Enlightenment Underground

Radical Germany, 1680-1720

Cold Harbor

Cold Harbor to the Crater The End of the Overland Campaign

Ruling Minds

Ruling Minds

Psychology in the British Empire

Causes Won and Lost

Causes Won and Lost

The End of the Civil War

The American War

The American War

A History of the Civil War Era

Shaper Nations

Shaper Nations

Strategies for a Changing World

When Sunday Comes

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Library

Confronting Saddam Hussein

George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq

The Age of Eisenhower

The Age of Eisenhower

America and the World in the 1950s

Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China

Family, State, and Native Place

Rooted Cosmopolitans

Rooted Cosmopolitans

Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

Piracy and Law

Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Singing the Resurrection

Singing the Resurrection

Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe

Sea of Debt

A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950

Armies of Deliverance

A New History of the Civil War

The Law of Strangers

Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century

To Build a Better World

Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth

Unfree Marks: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina

Ghosts From the Past?

Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia

That Tyrant, Persuasion

How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

The Unsettled Plain

An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

The Man Who Understood Democracy

The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

The New Era In American Mathematics, 1920-1950

Hurt Sentiments

Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

Communism's Public Sphere

Corcoran Department of History

The University of Virginia's Corcoran Department of History has long been one of the anchors for liberal and humane education in the College of Arts & Sciences. Members of the Department are nationally and internationally recognized for their scholarship and teaching. As scholars, the faculty specialize in a wide range of disciplines — cultural, diplomatic, economic, environmental history, history of science & technology, intellectual, legal, military, political, public history, and social history.  Areas of interest span the globe from Africa, to East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and the United States. As teachers, our faculty seek above all to lead students to reflect more deeply on the role historical forces and processes play in the human condition. Offering over 100 courses a year, the faculty teach introductory surveys as well as seminars and colloquia to undergraduates and graduate students. The Department's intellectual breadth is enhanced by its close relationship with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), the Classics Department, an emerging Law & History nexus between the Department and the School of Law,  the Miller Center for Study of the American Presidency, and the Committee on the History of Environment, Science, and Technology (CHEST). Members of the Department are also closely involved with several interdisciplinary programs in the College of Arts & Sciences such as, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle-Eastern Studies, Medieval Studies Program, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.  Others work at the convergence of humanities and digital technology, both in research and in novel approaches to historical pedagogy.