Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Aaron Sheehan-Dean is associate professor of history at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses on nineteenth-century U.S. and southern history. He is author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (2007) and the Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War (2008) and editor of The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (2007) and Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (2006). His current project explores the legacy of the Civil War in terms of the debates over definitions of liberty, struggles to shape American economic and industrial policy, and the development of the American West.

Lecture topics:

• Confederate Nationalism and the End of the Civil War
• A Rich Man's Fight and a Poor Man's War?: Rethinking the Social Experience of the Civil War
• After the Battle: The Consequences of the U.S. Civil War
• Using Maps to Teach the Civil War

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