Participant Info
- First Name
- Caitlin
- Last Name
- Verboon
- Country
- (Country)
- State
- VA Virginia
- cverboon@vt.edu
- Affiliation
- Virginia Tech
- Website URL
- https://www.caitlinverboon.com/
- Keywords
- Southern History, Slavery and Emancipation, African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I specialize in nineteenth-century United States history, with a particular focus on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras and African American history. I am currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled “Making Space,” which explores the ways black and white Southerners used public city space to remake citizenship after the Civil War. My interests more broadly include the nature of the public sphere in the American context, urban development, and the changing definitions of citizenship in the United States. I’m also involved in public history projects including the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and the Civil War Trust. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I received my BA from the College of William and Mary, and my PhD from Yale University.
- Recent Publications
“‘The Fire Fiend,’ Black Firemen, and Citizenship in the Urban South,” in The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship, ed. by Paul Quigley (LSU Press, June 2018)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Emancipation, Public History, Race, Slavery
