Anne Sarah Rubin is a Professor of
History and Director of the Center for Digital History and Education at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
She 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 Memory was
published in September 2014 by UNC Press.
The project also has a multimedia component, which can be found at http://www.shermansmarch.org.
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.Dr. Rubin was President of the
Society of Civil War Historians from 2012-2014 and is a member of its Advisory
Board. She is also a member of the
Southern Association of Woman Historians Executive Committee, and has been on
the Maryland State Archives Legacy of Slavery Project Advisory Board and the
Editorial Board of Civil War History. She is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer
(2011-2017). Her personal website can be found at http://annesarahrubin.com. Dr. Rubin last
appeared on The Advocates on February 16, 2011, and we discussed “Lincoln and
the Myths of Secession.”
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