Participant Info

First Name
Kathryn
Last Name
Shively
Affiliation
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Keywords
American Civil War, American military 1600-1900, medicine, environment, Science Technology and Society, historiography, memory, historical writing, epistemology, social history, intellectual history, mental health, layperson medical knowledge, animals
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Recent Publications

Books

Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

Selected Articles

“ ‘Notre devoir envers la science”. Médecines humaine et animale dans la guerre de Sécession, 1861-1865”, Le Mouvement Social, 257, octobre-décembre 2016: 47-69. English translation: “Our Duty to Science: Human and Animal Medicine in the American Civil War, 1861-65,” Le Mouvement Social Vol. 257 (October-December 2016): 47-69.

“Jubal A. Early: Model Civil War Sufferer,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 4, No. 1 (Spring 2016): 206-214.

“Military Engagement with Nature in the American Civil War,” South Central Review 33, No. 1 (Spring 2016): 37-52.

Selected Essays

“The 1862 and 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaigns,” in The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, ed. Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Cambridge University Press, October 2019).

“‘Duty to My Country and Myself’: The Jubal A. Early Memoirs,” in Stephen Cushman and Gary W. Gallagher, eds., Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, March 2019).

“‘I Told Him to Go On’: Enduring Cold Harbor,” in Cold Harbor to the Crater: Episodes of War in Virginia in 1864, eds. Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Sept. 2015).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century
Expertise by Topic
American Civil War, Environment, Medicine, Military, Science