Christopher W. Phillips

Christopher W. Phillips is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests generally are in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, more specifically, the American South, with particular interest in the border states. His books have focused upon slavery and freedom, emancipation, war, race, politics, and memory during and after the Civil War era. His current book project is tentatively entitled The Rivers Run Backward: The Civil War on the Middle Border and the Making of American Regionalism. Since 1999, he has also served as coeditor of Ohio Valley History, a peer-reviewed quarterly publication of regional history.

Lecture topics:

• "Not To Divide the North": Nationalism and Dissent in the Western Free States during the Civil War
• From Border States to Border South: Slavery, Civil War, and the Politics of Identity in the Border Slave States
• No Velvet Glove: Lincoln and the Border Slave States During the Civil War
• The Ten Year War: Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War in the Middle Western States
• The Roots of Quasi-Freedom: Slavery, Manumission, and African American Community in Early National Maryland

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