Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. South, the Home Front, and commemorations of war.

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1 William A. Blair The Pennsylvania State University History Department 108 Weaver Building University Park, PA (814) (w); (814) (h); EDUCATION Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995 M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1989 B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1975 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE The College of the Liberal Arts Research Professor, January 2010 Professor, History, since June 2006 Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, the Pennsylvania State University, since 1998 Editor, The Journal of the Civil War Era, March 2010 Editor, Brose Lecture Series, University of North Carolina Press, since Editor, Civil War History, March 2000 December 2010 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro, RESEARCH INTERESTS Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. South, the Home Front, and commemorations of war. IN PROGRESS With Malice toward Some: Treason in the Civil War Era. Book length project, part of Littlefield Series for in commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. PUBLICATIONS Books Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, New York: Oxford University Press,

2 Edited Books Lincoln s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. Co editor with Karen F. Younger. Part of the Steven and Janice Brose Lecture Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009 The Making and Remaking of Pennsylvania s Civil War. Co edited with William Pencak. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary, edited with Bell I. Wiley. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, Essays / Book Chapters Friend or Foe: Treason and the Second Confiscation Act, in Wars within Wars. Eds. Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Why Didn t the North Hang Some Rebels, in More than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era, eds. James Marten, A. Kristen Foster. Kent State University Press, Extremists at the Gate: Origins of the American Civil War, in Struggle for a Vast Future, ed. Aaron Sheehan Dean. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, We are Coming Father Abraham Eventually: The Problem of Northern Nationalism in the Pennsylvania Recruiting Drives of 1862, in The War Was You and Me: Civilians and the American Civil War, ed. Joan Cashin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, The Seven Days and the Radical Persuasion: Convincing Moderates in the North on the Need for a Hard War, in Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The Seven Days Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000 "Maryland, Our Maryland: Or How Lincoln and His Army Helped to Define the Confederacy," in, The Antietam Campaign, ed. Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, "Grant's Second Civil War: The Battle for Historical Memory," in Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The Spotsylvania Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, "Barbarians at Fredericksburg's Gate: The Impact of War on Civilians," in Decision on the Rappahannock: The Fredericksburg Campaign, ed. Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Articles The Use of Military Force to Protect Reconstruction s Gains, part of a special issue on Counter Factual History and Reconstruction, Civil War History, 51 (December 2005):

3 "Justice Versus Law and Order: The Battles over the Reconstruction of the Minor Judiciary in Virginia, ," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 103 (April 1995), " `A Source of Amusement:' Pennsylvania versus Lee, 1863," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 115 (July 1991), "A Practical Politician: The Boss Tactics of Matthew Stanley Quay," Pennsylvania History, 56 (April 1989), Published Lecture Why Didn t the North Hang Some Rebels? The Postwar Discussion of Treason and Leniency. Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, Book Introductions Phil Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan Reprinted, 1 vol. ed., New York: Barnes and Noble, Ella Lonn, Foreigners in the Confederacy Reprint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Joseph LeConte, Ware Sherman: A Journal of Three Months Personal Experience in the Last Days of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, William B. Hesseltine, Civil War Prisons Reprint, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, Ella Lonn, Desertion during the Civil War Reprint, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Gulf and Inland Waters Reprint, Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Company, Ropes, John Codman. The Army Under Pope Reprint, Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Company, Reviews Davis, William C. The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy. Lawrence, KN: University Press of Kanasas, 1996, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 105 (Winter 1997), Jordan, Ervin L., Jr. Black Confederates and Afro Yankess in Civil War Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 103 (October 1995), Fisher, Noel C. War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, Civil War America Series, ed. Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, For H CivWar Net, March 13,

4 Freehling, William. The South Against the South: How Anti Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (New York: Oxford, 2001) in Journal of Southern History 63 (2): Fuller, A. James. Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2000, in American Historical Review (February 2002), Greene, William B. Letters from a Sharpshooter, ed. William H. Hastings.Belleville, WI: The Hastings Groups, 1993, and James McPherson, What They Fought For, , Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 119 (July 1995), Marvel, William. A Place Called Appomattox. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 2002), McPherson, James M. and William J. Cooper. "The Quest for Understanding the Civil War," in Reviews in American History 27 (September 1999), Review of Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, pp. Sauers, Richard A. Advance the Colors! Pennsylvania Civil War Battle Flags. vol. 2. Harrisburg: The Capitol Preservation Committee, 1991, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January/April 1994), Schutz, Wallace J. and Trenerry, Walter N., Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990, in Journal of Military History 55 (July 1991), Vandiver, Frank E. Blood Brothers: A Short History of the Civil War. College Station: Texas A& M University Press, 1992, in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 91 (Summer 1993), Wakelyn, Jon L., ed. Southern Pamphlets on Secession: November 1860 April Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996, for H CivWar, April 22, Woodworth, Steven. Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West. Lawrence, KN: University of Kansas Press, 1990, in Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture. 46 (Winter ), Woodworth, Steven. Davis and Lee at War. Lawrence, KN: University of Kansas Press, 1995, in The North Carolina Historical Review, 73 (July 1996), DISSERTATION "Virginia's Private War: The Contours of Loyalty and Dissent in the Confederacy, The Pennsylvania State University, Advisor: Dr. Gary W. Gallagher. SERIES EDITOR, BROSE LECTURES, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS 4

5 Five books published: Mark E. Neely, The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (2005); Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006); Gary W. Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten (2008); Nina Silber, Gender& The Sectional Conflict (2008); William Blair and Karen Fisher Younger, eds., Lincoln s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (2009). Director, Richards Civil War Era Center (Since 1998) Fund raising: o Principle Investigator for $1 million Challenge Grant as part of the We the People Initiative, National Endowment for the Humanities, o Part of pledges for more than $9 million in endowments. Program Development o Summer Institute for Public School Teachers, held annually since o Civil War Era Workshops, featuring invited scholars presenting works in progress. o Brose Lecture Series. o Breaking the Silence Interdisciplinary Work Group, featuring speakers and seminars on various aspects of slavery and race. o Organizer, Biennial Conference, Society of Civil War Historians. Graduate Program o Lead nineteenth century caucus o Serve on annual admissions committee o Stage annual graduate student conference (since 2006). Administrative oversight o Establish and supervise annual budget o Hire and develop staff o Oversee endowment spending and awards HONORS AND AWARDS Class of 1993: Distinction in the Humanities Award, College of the Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, Honorable Mention, 2005 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship for Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, (Chapel Hill, 2004). Issued by the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, Shepherd University, West Virginia. Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer, since Welch Alumni Award, The College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State,

6 Philip S. Klein Award for Pennsylvania History, the Pennsylvania Historical Association, for Making and Remaking of Pennsylvania s Civil War, co edited with William Pencak (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001) Allan Nevins Prize for Best Dissertation in American History, awarded by the Society of American Historians, April Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, summer Summer Excellence Grant, 1997, University of North Carolina Greensboro. Summer Excellence Grant, 1996, University of North Carolina Greensboro. New Faculty Research Grant, , University of North Carolina Greensboro. Sparks Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State, CONFERENCES Chair: Guilt, Amnesty, and Pardon after the American Civil War, Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 27, Presenter: Treason Among us Still: Punishment of Confederate Veterans, for Panel titled Homecomings: Civil War Veterans Transitions to Peace, at the Southern Historical Association Meeting, Richmond, Virginia, November 1, Presenter: The Problem of Commemorating Freedom Today, for Lincoln and Emancipation Symposium, the Pennsylvania State University, April 14, 2007 Presenter: The Role of Military Occupation in Reconstruction, for Panel titled Reconstruction as it Should Have Been: an Exercise in Counter factual history, Social Science History Association meeting, Baltimore, November 16, Chair: Virginia Plantation as American Mecca: The Problem of Slavery at Mount Vernon, , at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Houston, November 8, Presenter: Making War on Their Own Citizens: The Culture of Union Domination and Resistance, Part of panel on Home Front and Battlefront, Conference on Crossing Boundaries: New Perspectives on Civil War Military and Cultural History, Huntington Library, California, October 18, Presenter: Emory Thomas as a Revolutionary Experience, talk delivered at the Society of Civil War Historians meeting, part of the Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 7, Presenter: Reburying Ceasar With Plenty of Praise: The Politics of Ladies Memorial Associations, at Virginia s Civil War and Aftermath, The Douglas Southall Freeman and Southern Intellectual History Conferences, University of Richmond, February 22, Comment, Donald Kagan s on the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, Plenary Session of the first annual meeting of The Historical Society, Boston College, May 27, Comment, Michael Fellman paper on Revisiting Robert E. Lee, for Society of Civil War Historians annual dinner meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, November 4,

7 Comment, Union Troops and Confederate Civilians, for Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, November 6, Comment, Memory and History in Nineteenth Century America, for Fifth Southern Conference on Women s History, Richmond, Va., June 16, Presented "Culture Wars: African American Commemorations of Civil War in Virginia, " at session on African Americans and Historical Memory in the South, at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, November Presented "The Political Implications of Public Ceremonies in Post Emancipation Virginia," at session on Memory, Gender, and Ceremonies in the Politics of the Lost Cause, at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, March Moderator and Comment for session on "The Impact of the Civil War on Communities," at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 1996, State College, PA. INVITED TALKS Friend or Foe: Confiscation and treason in the American Civil War. Delivered at Civil War Symposium, Wars within Wars: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War, Henry E. Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, October 27, Lincoln and Slavery, Delivered to members of the Union League, Philadelphia, Pa., September 21, Analyzing Dissent in Pennsylvania, Delivered at the Abraham Lincoln Symposium, Chambersburg, Pa., May 20, Do We Need Another Book on the Civil War? Delivered as part of the Seventy Fifth Anniversary observance, Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 19, Why Didn t the North Hang Some Rebels? The Postwar Discussion of Treason and Leniency, Frank L. Klement Lectures, Alternative Views of the Sectional Conflict, Marquette University, Wisconsin, October 25, Making War on Their Own Citizens: The Culture of Union Domination and Resistance, Civil War Symposium, Crossing Boundaries: New Perspectives on Civil War Military and Cultural History, Henry E. Huntington Library, California, October 18, The Legacy of the Confederacy, at the Chicago Historical Society, September 24, 2003, for the Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia The Truth about Glory, for Cinergy Corporation, August 20, America s Other Civil War, talk for the Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3, Maryland, Our Maryland: the Importance of the State in Framing the Confederate Cause, Baltimore Historical Society, Baltimore, MD, April 30,

8 Legacies of the Confederacy, panel with Emory Thomas and William Cooper at a symposium of the Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation, Richmond, Va., October 26, 2002 The Problem of Confederate Celebrations Today, Southern seminar at the University of Virginia, sponsored by Edward Ayers, October 4, 2000 War Aims of 1861, Mont Alto Confederence, June Lee the Southerner, symposium on Lee at Kent State University, November Reassessing the Political General, symposium for the Westmoreland County Historical Society, Greensburg, May 20, Was Curtin a Help or Hindrance: Pennsylvania and the Militia Draft of Centre County Roundtable, January 4, Reassessing the Political General. Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable, November 19, The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson and the Radicalization of the Nation, Pittsburgh Civil War Roundtable, September 15, We Are Coming Father Abraham: The Militia Draft of Mont Alto Conference on Second Manassas. June 2 6, Was Lincoln a Dictator? Symposium at St. Francis College, Joliet, Illinois, November 21, Radical Persuasion: How the Seven Days Affected Emancipation. Mont Alto Conference on The Seven Days Campaign: Watershed in the Eastern Theater, June 3 7, "Culture Wars:African American Commemorations of Civil War in Virginia, "Duke University, Faculty and Graduate Students, November 20, "Maryland, Our Maryland: The Southern View of a Border State's Loyalties." Mont Alto Civil War Conference on Antietam, June 4 8, "Message from the Ranks: The Meaning and Impact of Desertion." Civil War Education Association, Institute at Sarasota, Florida, January 31 February 4, "Message from the Ranks: The Meaning and Impact of Desertion." Charlottesville Civil War Roundtable, November 21, "Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War." Smithsonian Institute Tour titled "Contest Between Two Capitals," Washington, September 10, Professional Organizations and Boards Officer and conference organizer for the Society of Civil War Historians. Pennsylvania 150 th Planning Group, for statewide efforts concerning the sesquicentennial. Advisor for Telling Pennsylvania s Civil War Stories: New Narratives from Old Collections, an NEH supported planning grant with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg. Advisory Board, Civil War in the North, book series for Kent State University Press. 8

9 National Advisory Board, Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation, Richmond, Va., National Advisory Board Member, Breaking the Silence, a UNESCO program on slavery and abolition Member: Southern Historical Association, Organization of American Historians. Member of Program Committee, Southern Historical Association, for 2002 annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. 9