Works in Progress
Book/Edited Volumes In Progress:
Unforgettable Sacrifice African American Memory of the Civil War
This in-progress second book manuscript focuses on how African Americans remembered and commemorated the American Civil War and its legacy. Contributing to a large body of scholarship, it seeks to recognize the underappreciated role of diversity within the African American community in shaping memory. African Americans experienced the war as enslaved and free, but also as soldier, contraband, and/or civilian in both the United States and the Confederate States of America. As a result, geographic place, status before war, gender, and wartime experience produced a rich tapestry of collective memories that are not neatly encapsulated within the traditional scholarly categories of Emancipationist, Reconciliationist, or even the Won Cause. Rather the case studies presented in this volume seek to demonstrate the origins, diversity, and evolution of Civil War memory among everyday African Americans. Unforgettable Sacrifice will argue that African Americans, whether nationally, regionally, and/or locally, sought a usable past that honored the service and sacrifice of veterans, the diverse wartime civilian experiences, and the destruction of slavery to advance communal notions of patriotism, democracy, and their full inclusion as American citizens.
The Civil War and the Summer of 2020: Race, Violence, Resistance and Memory in the United States, edited with Andrew L. Slap, under contract with Fordham University Press.
Articles/Book Chapters/Essays Forthcoming:
Unforgettable Sacrifice African American Memory of the Civil War
This in-progress second book manuscript focuses on how African Americans remembered and commemorated the American Civil War and its legacy. Contributing to a large body of scholarship, it seeks to recognize the underappreciated role of diversity within the African American community in shaping memory. African Americans experienced the war as enslaved and free, but also as soldier, contraband, and/or civilian in both the United States and the Confederate States of America. As a result, geographic place, status before war, gender, and wartime experience produced a rich tapestry of collective memories that are not neatly encapsulated within the traditional scholarly categories of Emancipationist, Reconciliationist, or even the Won Cause. Rather the case studies presented in this volume seek to demonstrate the origins, diversity, and evolution of Civil War memory among everyday African Americans. Unforgettable Sacrifice will argue that African Americans, whether nationally, regionally, and/or locally, sought a usable past that honored the service and sacrifice of veterans, the diverse wartime civilian experiences, and the destruction of slavery to advance communal notions of patriotism, democracy, and their full inclusion as American citizens.
The Civil War and the Summer of 2020: Race, Violence, Resistance and Memory in the United States, edited with Andrew L. Slap, under contract with Fordham University Press.
Articles/Book Chapters/Essays Forthcoming:
- “The Hallowed Grounds Tour: Revising and Reimagining Landscapes of Race and Slavery at the University of Alabama,” in Segregation and Resistance in America’s Urban Landscapes, eds. Thaisa Way and Eric Avila, forthcoming 2023.
- “The Slave Cemetery and Apology Marker at the University of Alabama,” in Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves, ed. Brian Jordan and Jonathan White (Athens: University of Georgia Press), forthcoming 2023.
- “Education in the South during Reconstruction, 1865-1890,” in Oxford Handbook on Reconstruction, ed. Andy L. Slap, book chapter, revised draft submitted.
- Co-authored with Nishani Frazier and Christy Hyman, "Black is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities,” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, ed. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), forthcoming 2023.
- Co-authored and edited with Adam Domby, “Studying Slavery on Campus: Research, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement,” a JCWE roundtable, Journal of Civil War Era, forthcoming June 2023.
- "Toward a Third Educational Reconstruction," Legacy of Slavery in Savannah, ed. Melissa L. Cooper and Talitha LeFlouria, submitted and under review.
- “Remembering Gettysburg: Joseph Winters’s Post-Fifteenth Amendment Political Awakening,” in The Keystone: New Perspectives on the Civil War Era in Pennsylvania, ed. E. J. Murphy, submitted and under review.
- “Race, Gettysburg Memory, and the Jenkins Monument in Pennsylvania, 1990s-2020,” in Monuments and Memory, ed. John Jameson, Richard Velt and Sherene Baugher (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), submitted and under review.
- JCWE Roundtable on Monuments, ed. Adam Domby, Journal of Civil War Era, responses submitted.
- “From Shoe Polish to Spray Paint: A Brief History of African American Resistance of Confederate Monuments,” in Monuments, ed. LAXART and Museum of Contemporary Arts Los Angeles, submitted and under contract.
- “Teaching Black Educational Philanthropy Through Photography, 1863-1920s,”The Public Historian, submitted and under review
- “Built by William: Slavery and the University of Alabama,” in progress