WILLIAM BLAIR
William Blair is Liberal Arts Research Professor of American History, director of the Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University, and editor of The Journal of the Civil War Era. He also is editor of The Brose Lecture Series with the University of North Carolina Press.
In 1996, his dissertation won the Allan Nevins Prize for Best Dissertation in American History from the Society of American Historians. He also has been named a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
In addition to articles and chapters in books, Blair has written Virginia’s Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (Oxford 1998), and Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 (UNC 2004).
He is currently working on With Malice toward Some, a study of the use of treason during and after the Civil War.