Caroline E. Janney

Caroline E. Janney is assistant professor of history at Purdue University where she teaches courses on the Civil War, Civil War memory, and women's history. Her first book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (2008), explores the role of white southern women as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition in the immediate post-Civil War South. Her second book will examine how the Civil War was remembered between 1865 and the 1930s. She is particularly interested in how race, gender, and combat experience shaped the ways in which Americans thought about the war and its legacy.

Lecture topics:

• The Ladies' Memorial Associations: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause
• War at the Shrine of Peace: Efforts for an Appomattox Peace Monument
• LaSalle Corbell Pickett: The First Woman Who Welded Blue and Gray Together
• They Have Never Received Recognition: Remembering Northern Women and the Civil War
• Behind the Lines: The Home Front Experience in Civil War Petersburg

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