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First Name
Madeleine
Last Name
Forrest
Affiliation
Randolph-Macon College
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Keywords
American Civil War, American South, Reconstruction, Virginia History, Community Studies, 19th Century, Antebellum U.S., Fauquier County, Secession, Homefront, Gender history
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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
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