An Interview with David Silkenat

 

Our conversation with David Silkenat, Assistant Professor of History and Education at North Dakota State University and author of Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce & Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina published by University of North Carolina Press. In our interview, we discuss the work as well as Dr. Silkenat’s approach to teaching the Civil War in the midst of the sesquicentennial and his recommendations for recent Civil War publications.

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An Interview with Martha Hodes

Our conversation with Martha Hodes, a Professor of history at New York University, and recent author of “Mourning Lincoln,” now out with Yale University Press. In this interview, Dr. Hodes…