Roles
Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
4-11-2019
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Today we are speaking with Rachel Shelden, Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2013), which received honorable mention for the Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book on the Civil War and was a selection of the History book club. She is also the co-editor, with Gary W. Gallagher, of A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History (University of Virginia Press, 2012). Dr. Shelden serves as the book review editor for the Journal of the Civil War Era. Her current book project explores the political culture of the U.S. Supreme Court in the long Civil War era, from the 1830s to the 1890s. [excerpt]
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This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Luskey, Ashley Whitehead, "Politics and Crisis in the 1850s: An Interview with Rachel Shelden" (2019). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 351.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/351
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