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First Name
Lindsey
Last Name
Peterson
Affiliation
University of Southern Mississippi
Website URL
lindseyraepeterson.com
Keywords
Women’s history, American Civil War, memory studies, American West
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About Me

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg). My dissertation research analyzes the intersection of race, gender, and place in western Union Civil War commemorations. Examining how Union veterans and their families commemorated the war in the trans-Mississippi West, I argue western Unionists constructed a western-centric narrative of the Civil War to bolster their vision of western expansion and the colonization of indigenous Americans.

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United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
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Expertise by Topic
American Civil War, Gender, Military, Public History, Race, Sexuality, Women