Thomas J. Brown is associate professor of history and associate director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he has taught since 1996. He is author of Dorothea Dix, New England Reformer (1998), coeditor of Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (2001), and editor of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration (2004) and Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States (2006). His research focuses on the Civil War in American memory.

Lecture topics:

• The Afterlife of Abraham Lincoln
• Civic Monuments of the Civil War
• The Civil War in Contemporary America

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