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Anne Sarah Rubin is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  She was the 2016-2017 Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and the Associate Director of the Imaging Research Center (IRC) from 2017-2020.  Dr. Rubin received her AB from Princeton University and her MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.  Her study of the place of Sherman’s March in American culture and history, entitled Through the Heart of Dixie:  Sherman’s March in American Memorywas published in September 2014 by UNC Press.  The project also has a multimedia component, which can be found at http://www.shermansmarch.org.  Her co-edited book, The Perfect Scout:  A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas waspublished by the University of Alabama Press in 2018.

Dr. Rubin’s first book, A Shattered Nation:  The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy (UNC, 2005), received the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians, for the most original book on the Civil War era.  She was a co-author of the award-winning Valley of the Shadow, an interactive history of the Civil War in two communities. She has also published numerous essays and journal articles.

She is currently working on a study of food and famine in the Civil War era South.

Dr. Rubin was President of the Society of Civil War Historians from 2012-2014 and was a member of its Advisory Board from 2014-2016.  She was a member of the Southern Association of Woman Historians Executive Council from 2014-2016, and is currently its Vice President. She has served on the Maryland State Archives Legacy of Slavery Project Advisory Board and the Editorial Board of Civil War History.  She is also an OAH Distinguished Lecturer (2011-2023).

Recent Publications

Foreword to Marion B. Lucas, Sherman and the Burning of Columbia, (Columbia:  University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming)

“Slave Streets, Free Streets:  Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore,” Current Research in Digital History, (forthcoming).

“Accuracy and Authenticity in a Digital City:  Slave Streets, Free Streets and the Landscape of Early Baltimore,” AHA Perspectives (November 2020). https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2020/accuracy-and-authenticity-in-a-digital-city-emslave-streets-free-streets/em-and-the-landscape-of-early-baltimore

“Literally Destroyed as a Housekeeper:  Hunger and Hardship in Civil War Kentucky,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, September 2019.

“An Infamous Disregard:  Sherman’s March and the Laws of War,” in Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress, ed. Paul Finkelman and Don Kennon (Athens, OH:  Ohio University Press, 2019).

The Perfect Scout: A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas.  Edited with Stephen Murphy. (Tuscaloosa:  The University of Alabama Press, 2018).

“Sherman’s March in American History and Cultural Memory,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2017)

“The Grand Review of Sherman’s Bummers,” The Conversation, May 25, 2015.  https://theconversation.com/the-grand-review-of-shermans-bummers-41555

“Towns Made For Burning,” The New York Times Disunion, March 1, 2015.  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/towns-made-for-burning/

Through the Heart of Dixie:  Sherman’s March and American Memory(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

 

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