An Interview with Lisa Brady

 

Our interview with Lisa Brady, Associate Professor of History at Boise State University and author of War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War published by University of Georgia Press. In this interview, Brady discusses her work as well as the future of environmental studies of the Civil War.

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“It made us an ‘is’.”

It’s one of the great quotes, from one of the great documentaries, that sums up the legacy of the American Civil War: Before the war, it was said ‘the United States are’– grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always ‘the […]