"Why didn't the North hang some
rebels? The postwar debate over punishment for treason"
WILLIAM BLAIR
October 25, 7:30 PM
William Blair is Director
of the Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State
University and editor of Civil War History, the premiere journal
on the history of the “middle period.” His dissertation,
written under the direction of Gary Gallagher at Penn State, won
the Allan Nevins Prize for Best Dissertation in American History
from the Society of American Historians. He has also received
the Philip S. Klein Award for Pennsylvania History and been named
a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
In addition to numerous articles and chapters in books, Blair
has written Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the
Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998) and co-edited The Making and Remaking
of Pennsylvania's Civil War (2001). He is the author of
the soon-to-be published Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory
of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914.
