Participant Info
- First Name
- Susannah
- Last Name
- Ural
- Country
- United States
- State
- MS Mississippi
- Susannah.Ural@usm.edu
- Affiliation
- Dale Center for the Study of War & Society, University of Southern Mississippi
- Website URL
- http://susannahjural.com/
- Keywords
- U.S. Civil War, war & society, military history, 19th Century America
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D. is a professor of history and co-director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. A war and society scholar, Ural is the author of numerous books and articles on the U.S. Civil War era, including her latest monograph: Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy’s Most Celebrated Unit (Louisiana State University Press, 2017). She recently launched two projects that connect universities and communities: a study of the Mississippi Confederate Home (www.beauvoirveteranproject.org) and the Mississippi Digital Courthouse Project, which digitizes nineteenth- and twentieth-century county records across south Mississippi. Ural is chair of the editorial board of The Journal of Military History, and a member of editorial boards of The Journal of the Civil War Era and Civil War Times magazine. She writes a regular column on Civil War digital resources for Civil War Times and is a frequent contributor to the Dale Center blog on topics that include Civil War monuments, veteran care, and America’s tradition of military memory: https://dalecentersouthernmiss.wordpress.com/
- Recent Publications
Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy’s Most Celebrated Unit. Louisiana State University Press, Conflicting Worlds Series, November 2017.
Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: Soldiers and Families in America’s Civil War. Osprey Publishing, 2013.
Editor, Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict. NYU Press, 2010.
“The Summer of Irish Rage: The Cause and Consequences of the New York City Draft Riots,” America’s Civil War, 22 (March 2009): 24-31.
The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865. New York: NYU Press, 2006.
“The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-Americans and the Union War Effort, 1861-1865.” The Journal of Military History 69 (April 2005): 331-359.
- Media Coverage
- New York Times, MichaeLA (CNN), "Who Do You Think You Are?" (TLC), CSPAN
- Social Media
- @susannahjural.com
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Family, Military
