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Caroline E. Janney
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Office: UNIV 023
Office Phone: (765) 496-9496
Office Fax: (765) 496-1755
Email: cjanney@purdue.edu
Specialization: U.S. Women and Gender History, Civil War, Reconstruction, Memory, and Southern studies
Professor Janney received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Virginia. She is the author of essays about the Lost Cause that have appeared recently in Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration and Virginia’s Civil War, as well as an article on the memory of John Brown’s raid that appeared in Civil War History magazine. Her first book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause was recently published by the University of North Carolina Press. Her second book will examine how the Civil War has been remembered between 1865 and 1920. She is particularly interested in how race, gender, and combat experience shaped the ways in which Americans thought about the war and its legacy.
