Caroline Janney
Caroline Janney
Caroline Janney is a John L Nau, III, Professor in History of American Civil War Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History corcoran department of History, University of Virginia.[1]
Biography
Caroline Janney is a Professor of History. Professor Janney’s research focuses on the Civil War and how the war generation remembered the nation’s bloodiest war. Her first book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (2008) explores the role of white southern women as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition in the immediate post-Civil War South. Her second book, Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation is a volume in the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era and examines how the Civil War has been remembered between 1865 and the 1930s by northerners and southerners, men and women, white and black. Remembering the Civil War has been selected for the History Book Club and Military Book Club, and it received an honorable mention for the Avery O. Craven Award, for the most original book by a recent historian on the Civil War Era.
In addition to her Monograph s, Janney is the editor of John Richard Dennett’s, The South As It Is, 1865-66 and is the author of essays about the Civil War and its aftermath that have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Civil War History, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration, Virginia’s Civil War, and the Journal of the Civil War Era.
She serves as a co-editor of the University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America Series and is the in-coming president of the Society of Civil War Historians.[2]
Education
Ph.D. History, University of Virginia
B.A. Government, University of Virginia.
Field & Specialties
United States. Civil War
19th Century U.S.
History
Women and Gender History
Memory
Awards & Honors
President, Society of Civil war Historians (2014-2016)
Co-editor, University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America Series (2012-present)
Charles S. Sydnor Award for Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, Southern Historical Association (2014)
Jefferson Davis Award for Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia (2014)
Honorable mention, Avery O. Craven Award for Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, Organization of American Historians (2014)
Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University (2014-15)
University Faculty Scholar, Purdue University (2013-2018) .
Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer (2009-to present)
Anne Firor Scott Mid-Career Fellowship, Southern Association of Women’s Historians (Fall 2010)
Kentucky Historical Society, Research Fellowship (Summer 2010) .
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Resident Fellow, Charlottesville, Virginia (Summer 2009).
William M. E. Rachal Award, for best article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (2008).
Courses Taught
HIUS / WGS 3611 US Gender and Sexuality, 1600-1870
HIUS 3072 Civil War .
HIUS 1501 Civil War in Myth and Memory.
Publications
Books
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation.
Volume 16 of the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013). [3]
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).[4]
Edited / Co-Authored Books
Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia.Volume
11 of the Military Campaigns of the Civil War Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Wrote
the introduction and contributed an essay titled “‘We Were Not Paroled’: The Surrenders of Lee’s Men beyond Appomattox Court House.”
Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign.Volume
10 of the Military Campaigns of the Civil War Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Co-edited
the book with Gary W. Gallagher, co-wrote the introduction, and contributed an essay titled “‘A War Thoroughfare’: Confederate Civilians and the Siege of Petersburg.”
The South as It Is, 1865-1866 byJohn Richard Dennett.
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010).
Wrote a new scholarly introduction to this reprint edition.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Free to Go Where We Liked: The Army of Northern Virginia after Appomattox,” Journal of the Civil War Era(vol.
9, no. 1, March 2019): 4-28.
“‘I Yield to No Man an Iota of My Convictions’: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Limits of Reconciliation,” Journal of the Civil War Era(vol.
2, no. 3, September 2012): 394-420.
“War over the Shrine of Peace: The Appomattox Peace Monument and Retreat from Reconciliation,” Journal of Southern History(vol.
77, no. 1, February 2011): 91-120.
“‘One of the Best Loved, North and South’: The Appropriation of National Reconciliation by LaSalle Corbell Pickett,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography(vol.
116, no. 4, 2008): 370-406.
“Written in Stone: Gender, Race, and the Heyward Shepherd Memorial,” Civil War History (vol.
52, no. 2, June 2006): 117-41.