An Interview with Michael David Cohen

 

Our conversation with Michael David Cohen, an assistant research professor of history at the University of Tennessee and author of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War published by the University of Virginia Press. Cohen discusses the dramatic changes that the conflict brought to northern and southern campuses, both during the war years and into the end of the 19th century.

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