Publications

Gendering Secession: White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859-1861. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Purchase here. 

• Finalist for the South Carolina Historical Society's George C. Rogers Jr. Award for Best Book of South Carolina History for 2025.

The American Historian. "The Power of an Idea: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy." The Organization of American Historians, Fall 2024.

The Washington Post, Made by History Series. "The attempted insurrection was only part of the right's anti-democratic playbook" with DJ Polite. January 10, 2021.

Journal of American Studies. "May the Lord shield and protect us from the terrible storm ahead of us': Elite South Carolina Women's Anticipation of Secession and War, 1860-1861," 7 November 2019.

A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Occupations in U.S. History. "Turpentine Worker (Free and Enslaved)" Encyclopedia Entry. ed. Nancy Quam-Wickham, Ben Tyler Elliott (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020).

South Carolina Historical Magazine, "A Tale of Two Journals: The South Carolina Historical Association and the South Carolina Historical Society Study the Civil War." 2018 (published 2021).

The Society of Civil War Historians' Muster Blog, "Enslaved Children, Trauma, and 'American Family Values:' A Recap of the 2021 Southern's SAWH Keynote," December 21, 2021

Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum Blog. "Death, Immortalized: Victorian Post-Mortem Photography," February 19, 2019

Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum Blog. "'Senses Were Benumbed:' How a Civil War Nurse Handled Trauma," March 15, 2018.