Participant Info
- First Name
- Madeleine
- Last Name
- Forrest
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- madeleine.f.ramsey@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Randolph-Macon College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- American Civil War, American South, Reconstruction, Virginia History, Community Studies, 19th Century, Antebellum U.S., Fauquier County, Secession, Homefront, Gender history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. I received my Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Arkansas, studying with Dr. Daniel Sutherland.
I am a historian of the nineteenth century U.S. South and Civil War. I am interested in understanding how the war and its aftermath affected southerners at the local level. My research focuses on the community of Fauquier County, Virginia, a border area of unique dynamism and fluidity during the Civil War. I argue that the county’s residents, black and white and free and enslaved, found themselves in a no man’s land where traditional demarcations between homefront and battlefield did not exist. I am study how ex-Confederates viewed the relationship between their dead nation, the Confederate States, and their new one—the Union in 1865 and beyond—and take a particular interest in their postwar pardon and amnesty applications.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States, American South
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Family, Local & Regional, Military, Slavery, Women
