Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-29-2019
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Today we are speaking with Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University and the Chair of LSU’s History Department. He teaches courses on nineteenth-century U.S. history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and southern History. He is the author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (UNC Press, 2007), Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2008), and is the editor of several other volumes. His most recent book, The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, was released by Harvard University Press in Fall, 2018. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Civil War Institute, "Violence and Restraint: An Interview with Aaron Sheehan-Dean" (2019). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 347.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/347
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