Anne Sarah
Rubin
Department of History
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
(410) 455-1661
arubin@umbc.edu
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~arubin
Education
Ph.D.: University of
Virginia, American History, 1999.
MA: University of
Virginia, American History, 1993.
AB: Princeton University,
American History, 1991, magna cum laude.
Employment
Associate Professor, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2005 to present
Assistant Professor, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2000 to June
2005.
Courses: The United States to
1865, Civil War and Reconstruction, The South Since Reconstruction, The
Jacksonian Era, Graduate Readings in American Historiography, Myth, Memory, and
the American Civil War, The South before the Civil War, Environmental
Approaches to United States History
Committees Chaired: University Research Council
(2005-2006); Public History Search (2005-2006), Department Graduate—acting Graduate Program Director
(Spring 2006), Michelle Scott Promotion and Tenure, 2007, Acting Library
Liaison (Fall 2007), Graduate Program Director (2009-2011).
Committee Memberships: Department Public History, Department Student
Relations, Department Information and Technology, Department Undergraduate,
Department Graduate, University Research Council, University IT Steering,
University Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Self Study, University Humanities Forum,
Library Steering Committee
Visiting Assistant Professor, American University, September 1998 to May
2000.
Project Manager for the Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil
War, June 1993-September 1996.
Lecturer, University of Virginia, Inside The Confederate States of America, Spring
1995.
Publications
Books and CD-ROMs
A Shattered Nation: The
Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
(Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
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Winner of the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of
American Historians
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Alternate selection for History Book Club and American Compass Book
Club
With Edward L. Ayers, The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in
The American Civil War. Part
I: The Eve of War (New York: W. W. Norton
& Company, 2000).
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Winner of the 2001 E-Lincoln Prize
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Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical
Association, 2003
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Winner of Best Multimedia Project, American Association for History and
Computing, 2001
With Alice E. Carter, Instructor's Manual for The Valley of the Shadow: The Eve of War (New York: W. W. Norton
& Company, 2001).
Articles, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries
"The Rise and Fall of
the Confederacy," in The American
South: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
"Confederacy," The Princeton Encyclopedia of Political
History, forthcoming
"Loyalty Oaths," Encyclopedia of Women in the Civil War
ABC-Clio, forthcoming
"Child Labor in the
American South," Society for the History of Children and Youth Newsletter,
Winter, 2008.
With Edward L. Ayers and
William G. Thomas III, "Black and On the Border," in Slavery, Resistance, Freedom ed. Gabor
Boritt and Scott Hancock, New York:
Oxford University Press, 2007.
"John Armistead
Carter," Dictionary of Virginia
Biography, vol. 3, 2006.
"Politics and
Petticoats in the Same Pod:
Florence Fay, Betsey Bittersweet, and the Reconstruction of Southern
Womanhood, 1865-1868," in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds. Battle Scars. Cambridge:
Oxford University Press, 2006.
"Every "True-Hearted"
Southerner: Oaths and Southern Identity During
Reconstruction," anthologized in Speaking
of America: Readings in U. S.
History Volume II ed. Laura A.
Belmonte, (Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth-Thomsen, 2005).
"'Seventy-Six and Sixty-One': Confederates Remember the American Revolution," in Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Chapel
Hill: The University of North
Carolina Press, 2000).
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War (ABC-CLIO, 2000):
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"Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Burning of"
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"Jedediah Hotchkiss"
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"Whitelaw Reid"
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"Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone"
"Bringing History to the Public: The
Valley of the Shadow Project," Public
History News (Spring 1996).
"Reflections on the
Death of Emmett Till," Southern
Cultures (Fall, 1995): 45-66.
"'Between Union and
Chaos': The Political Life of John
Janney," Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography (August
1994): 381-416.
Book Reviews
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
for The Historian (forthcoming)
Christopher Waldrep, Vicksburg's
Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance for Journal of American History (June 2007)
William A. Blair, Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War
in the South, 1865-1914 for Civil War
History (March 2007)
Eliza
Frances Andrews. A Family Secret for
H-CivWar (December 2006)
Armstead L. Robinson, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of
Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 for American Historical Review (January
2006)
W. Scott Poole, Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina
Upcountry for North Carolina
Historical Review (April 2005).
American
Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's
History and Culture in the United States for Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (March
2005)
Sarah E.
Gardner, Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of
the Civil War, 1861-1937 for Maryland
Historical Magazine (Fall 2004)
Benson Bobrick, Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War for Civil War Book Review (Fall 2004)
Karen L. Cox, Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation
of Confederate Culture, for The
Journal of Southern History (August 2004)
Robert Bonner, Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South for Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
2003 111(2).
Duane Schultz, The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4, 1863
for The Journal of Southern History 69
(November 2003).
Don H. Doyle, Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the
Southern Question for H-South (October 2003).
Brian Steel Wills, The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia for H-CivWar (May
2003).
Abraham Lincoln Historical
Digitization Project, Lincoln/Net, Journal of American History (March
2003).
Volo, James M. and Dorothy
Deneen Volo. Encyclopedia of the Antebellum South, Gulf South Historical Review (Spring 2003).
Ted Genoways and Hugh H.
Genoways, eds., A Perfect Picture of
Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil
War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa, Journal of Southern History (November 2002).
Judkin Browning and Michael
Thomas Smith, eds., Letters from a North Carolina
Unionist: John A. Hedrick to
Benjamin S. Hedrick, 1862-1865, Civil
War Book Review (Winter 2002).
"Civil War Websites,"
Civil War History (March 2002).
Richard B. McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, North and South.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s. Maryland
Historical Magazine (Summer, 2001)
Christopher Phillips,
Missouri's Confederate:
Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the
Border West, Civil War History (September
2001).
Gary W. Gallagher and Alan
T. Nolan, eds. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War
History, Journal of Military History 65 (April 2001)
William A. Blair, Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the
Confederacy, 1861-1865. In Journal of
Southern Religion, Summer 1999.
Elizabeth R. Varon, We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum
Virginia. For H-SAWH
electronic discussion list, January 1999.
James Marten, The Children's Civil War. In
American Graduate, Winter 1999.
W. C. Corsan, Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman's Travels Through the
South. Edited by Benjamin H. Trask. In Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography (Fall, 1997): 479-80.
Gary W. Gallagher, ed., Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath. In Virginia Magazine
of History and Biography (Spring, 1997): 236-37.
Peter S. Carmichael, Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Pegram. In Civil
War Regiments 5 (No. 2):
125-27.
Presentations
Conference Papers
ÒÔÕThe
Oncoming JuggernautÕ: Gone With
the Wind and ShermanÕs March in
American Culture,Ó Eighth Southern Conference on WomenÕs History, June 2009.
"Mapping
Memory: Digitizing Sherman's
March,Ó Society of Civil War Historians Annual Luncheon, October 2008
"'Bummers Bold': Union Veterans Remember Sherman's
March," Society of Civil War Historians Conference, June 2008.
"Child Labor in the
American South: Using a Wiki for
Historical Research," Maryland Blackboard Users Group, October, 2007
"On Sherman's
Track: Retracing and Remembering
Sherman's March," Society for Military History Annual Meeting, April 2007.
Chaired panel on New
Directions in Digital History, American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
January 2006.
Comment on Gender, Family,
and Nation in the American South Panel, Southern Historical Association Annual
Meeting, November 2004
"The Color Blue is
Wholly Ignored: Confederates and
American Symbolism," British Association of American Studies Annual
Meeting, April 2003.
"Civil War Soldiers and
Civilians," comment given at
the Library of Congress Civil War Symposium, November 2002
"Surviving the
Conference Interview," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting,
April 2002.
"The Confederate
Homefront and the Campaign of Second Manassas," University of Virginia
Civil War Conference: Second
Manassas: Lee Takes the War
Northward, May, 2001.
"'Southern Women is
Like Percussion Caps': Florence
Fay, Betsey Bittersweet, and the Reconstruction of Southern Womanhood,
1865-1868," Southern Association of Women Historians Fifth Southern
Conference on Women's History, June 2000.
"'Northern Capitalists May Feel Safe In His Hands': Reconsidering the Myth of the
Carpetbagger," Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, November 1999.
"'Every True-Hearted
Southerner': The Reinvention of Southern Identity During Reconstruction,"
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 1999.
"The Story of the
Southern Nation: Creating a Usable
Past for the Confederacy," American Culture Association Annual Meeting,
April 1998.
"Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War," with
Edward L. Ayers, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, November 1997.
"The Valley and Me," American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, January 1997.
"'The Most Vindictive
of Their Race': Women, Men, and
Post-Civil War Southern Nationalism," Southern Historical Association
Annual Meeting, October 1996
"Reflections on the Death of Emmett Till," Telling
About the South: A Student
Conference on Social Memory and Southern History, University of Virginia, March
1994.
Other Professional
Presentations
Comments on Walter A. McDougall, Throes of Democracy: The
American Civil War Era, 1829-1877, Cato Institute Book Forum, March 2008.
"Identities
Gained and Lost: Confederate Nationalism during the Civil War and
Reconstruction," Washington DC Civil War Roundtable, December 2007.
"Identities
Gained and Lost: Confederate Nationalism during the Civil War and
Reconstruction," New Perspectives on the Civil War Workshop, Rice University November 2007.
"Brave Bummers of the
West: Veterans' Memories of
Sherman's March" New Perspectives on the Civil War Workshop, Rice University November 2007.
"'Are We Not
Men?': Free Blacks and
Abolitionism in Antebellum America," Teaching American History in Anne
Arundel County Fall Workshop, October 2007
"A Shattered
Nation," Discover Johns Hopkins Program, August 2006.
"Confederate
Women," Alexandria Virginia UDC Chapter, April 2006
"A Shattered
Nation," OAH Executive Committee Breakfast, April 2006.
"Maryland During the
Civil War," Charlestown Retirement Community, January, 2006.
"'To Receive the Oath
and Bond of Slave': Loyalty Oaths
and Confederate Nationalism," UMBC Humanities Forum, November 2005.
"A Shattered
Nation," Museum of the Confederacy Bookfair, September 2005.
"A Biographical
Approach to Civil War History," Millersville University American History
Institute, July 2005.
"'To Receive the Oath
and Bond of Slave': Loyalty Oaths
and Confederate Nationalism," Baltimore Civil War Roundtable, July 2005.
"'To Receive the Oath
and Bond of Slave': Loyalty Oaths
and Confederate Nationalism," Chesapeake Civil War Roundtable, April 2005.
"The Valley of the Shadow Project"
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies, May 2002.
"New Directions in
Digital History," University of Maryland, Baltimore County Humanities
Forum, September 2001.
"'Every True-Hearted
Southerner': Loyalty Oaths and Southern Identity, 1863-1868," National
Museum of American History Staff Colloquium, December 1999.
"Behind the Valley of the Shadow Project,"
Virginia Department of Education Educational Technology Leadership Conference,
December 1997.
"Bridging Boundaries
with the Valley of the Shadow Project," Virginia Library Association Annual
Meeting, October 1997.
"James Robertson's Stonewall Jackson." Jefferson-Madison Regional Library,
Charlottesville, Virginia, October 1997; Scottsville Public Library, February
1998.
"The Southern Nation
Exists: Public Culture and
Nationalism in the Confederate South," Valentine Museum
Controversy/History Panel, March 1997.
"The New South in the
Old: Commercial Development in
Antebellum Staunton, Virginia," lecture given at the Woodrow Wilson
Birthplace Museum, Staunton, Virginia, October 1994.
Awards and Fellowships
2008
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship
2006
Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2001
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellowship, 2001
Sole runner-up for the Allan
Nevins Prize, given annually by the Society of American Historians for the best
dissertation in American history, 1999.
North Caroliniana Society,
Archie K. Davis Fellowship, 1998.
University of Virginia
Alumni Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998.
University of Virginia
Southern History Program Fellowship, 1997-1998.
Virginia Historical Society,
Mellon Research Fellowship, 1996.
University of Virginia
Alumni Council Travel Fellowship, 1996.
University of Virginia
Southern History Program Fellowship, 1996-1997.
University of Virginia
Southern History Program Fellowship, 1995-1996.
University of Virginia
Southern History Program Fellowship, 1994-1995.
University of Virginia
Academic Enhancement Fellowship, 1991-1994.
Prize Committees
James A Rawley Book Prize,
SHA, 2009
Chair, Avery O. Craven
Award, OAH, 2008
Chair, E-Lincoln Prize, 2008
E-Lincoln Prize, 2007
Other Professional Activities
Member of Museum of the
Confederacy Advisory Board
NEH Evaluation Panel Member
NSF grant evaluator (9/07)
Conference coordinator for
SAWH Conference on Southern Women's History, June 2006
Participant in National
Archives Civil War Charette, February 2006
Member of the Editorial
Board of Southern Spaces, 2005-
Member of the Advisory
Council of the Lincoln Prize, ongoing.
Manuscript reviewer for Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
Broadview Press, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishers, Houghton-Mifflin, Bedford
Series in History and Culture, Historian
Magazine, Oxford University Press, Journal
of Military History, Journal of
Southern History
Consultant on NEH grant for
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, 2004-2005
Instructor, Maryland Center
for History Education, 2003-2004
Member of Archives
Partnership Team at the Hampton National Historic Site, 2000-2001
Seminar Coordinator for
H-Net/NEH Summer Seminar, "Creating On-line Sources in United States
History," June 1996
Faculty Consultant and
Reader, Advanced Placement Program in U.S. History, 1995 and 1998
Professional
Organizations: OAH, AHA, SHA, SAWH
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