The Civil War Through a Military History Lens | Teacher Seminars Online

This seminar will demonstrate how to connect the military aspects of the Civil War to America’s social and political history. A holistic approach to teaching the Civil War embeds a military campaign within a broader context, explains its consequences, and explores how an army’s presence reverberates throughout a society in its region of operation. Participants will learn how specific military campaigns inform topics such as emancipation, refugee movement, guerrilla warfare, conscription, women’s history, and the American West.

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Lorien Foote, Lead Scholar

Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of four books, editor of three scholarly volumes, and writer of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and essays. Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War (2021) was awarded the Organization of American Historians’ Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award; The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy (2016) was a 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title; and The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army (2010) was a finalist and Honorable Mention for the 2011 Lincoln Prize. Foote is the co-editor, with Earl J. Hess, of The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War. She is the creator and principal investigator of Fugitive Federals, a digital humanities project that is mapping the escape and movement of 3000 federal prisoners of war during the American Civil War.