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Penn State Abington College, Special Recognition Achievement Award, 2006.
History Book Club and Military Book Club , A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, Alternate Selection, 2006.
Penn State Abington College, Outstanding Teacher Award, 2005 finalist.
Fellow, United States Military Academy, West Point; Summer 2002 seminar in U.S. and Global Military History.
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Politics as War by Other Means: The Special Louisiana Congressional Election of 1864, presented to the Society of Civil War Historians, June 2008.
The Shreveport Maelstrom: Edmund Kirby Smith and the Management of Manpower in the Trans-Mississippi, presented to the Society for Military History, April, 2007.
Edmund Kirby Smith and Confederate — French Diplomacy, 1863-1865, presented to the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association, November, 2006.
"If you give us guns, we will fight": Black Southerners and the Confederacy, presented to the University of Mississippi's Conference on the Civil War, May, 2006.
Texans Never Can Be Slaves: The War Between Texas Troops and Black Federals, presented to the Texas State Historical Association, March, 2005.
From Cannae to Blenheim: Richard Taylor's Tactics at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, presented to the Society for Military History, February, 2005.
A Disagreeable Dilemma: Emergence of Confederate Policy Toward Black Union Troops in Louisiana, presented to the Society for Military History, May 2003.
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A New and Perilous Time: Electing Abraham Lincoln, 1860 & 1864, presented as part of the Quest for Knowledge Series at the Shannondell Center, October 2009.
John G. Walker's Two-Front War: Walker's Texans in the Red River Campaign,, presentation to the New Orleans LA Civil War Roundtable and Austin TX Civil War Roundtable, May , 2009.
The Crisis of Command in the Trans-Mississippi, presentation to the Central Pennsylvania Civil War Roundtable, March 2009.
Through Depression and War: FDR's Presidential Campaigns, presented as part of the Quest for Knowledge Series at the Shannondell Center, October, 2008.
The War Between the Generals: The Battle over Strategy in the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy, presentation to the Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable, October 2008.
Incivility in American Politics-the Election of 1840 in the series Toward a More Civil World, sponsored by the Abington Presbyterian Church, October, 2008.
Normalcy and Nostrums: Presidential Elections in the Roaring Twenties, presented as part of the Quest for Knowledge Series at the Shannondell Center, June, 2008.
Gray Star Rising: Edmund Kirby Smith and the Confederacy, 1861-1862, presented to the Historical Society of Montgomery County and Civil War Roundtable of Montgomery County, May, 2007.
Failure of Command: Edmund Kirby Smith and the Trans-Mississippi Theater, presented to the Upper Moreland Historical Association, March, 2007.
Genesis of a Feud: Antebellum Careers of Richard Taylor and Edmund Kirby Smith, presented to the Union Library Civil War Roundtable, May, 2006.
Researching and Writing Confederate History, Sons of Confederate Veterans Philadelphia Chapter, February 2006.
Incivility in American Politics, in the series Toward a More Civil World, presented by the Abington Presbyterian Church, December 2005.
Confederate Leadership in the Red River Campaign, United States Military Academy at West Point, May 2004.
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"I could tell you a thousand stories" Teaching Gettysburg--from the Classroom to the Battlefield, presented to the Pennsylvania Historical Association, October, 2009.
The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi presented by the Society for Military History, April, 2009.
Issues and Insights: Focus on 2008 Elections, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, September 2008.
Issues and Insights: Focus on 2004 Elections, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, October 2004.
Lessons Learned: Experiences and Advice for New Ph.D.s in Military History presented by the Society for Military History, May 2004.
Scholarship and the Red River Campaign, presented to the Red River Campaign Civil War Symposium at Louisiana State University, Alexandria, March 2004.
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Manuscript, Biography of Edmund Kirby Smith.
Article, Edmund and Aleck: Slavery and the Kirby-Smith Family.
Research conducted on Edmund Kirby Smith, Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University; Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University; United States Army Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina; Perkins Library Special Collections, Duke University; Huntington Library, San Marino, California; Missouri State Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri; Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri; National Archives, Washington, DC; Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Field study and archival research conducted on the role of the Third Arkansas Infantry at Gettysburg, Gettysburg National Military Park.
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American Historical Society
Arkansas Historical Society
Friends of Gettysburg National Park
Friends of Mansfield Battlefield
Pennsylvania Historical Association
Society of Civil War Historians
Society for Military History
Southern Historical Society
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