The Myths of the Southern Secession -Prof. Anne Sarah Rubin

Wednesday, February 16, 2011, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Professor Anne Sarah Rubin and our subject is the “Myths of Southern Secession,” in the 150th year since the start of the American Civil War.

Anne Sarah Rubin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Her 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 is currently working on a multi-media study of the memory of Sherman's March, entitled Through the Heart of Dixie:  Sherman's March and America, for which she received a 2007 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship.  She graduated with a BA from Princeton University and was awarded an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.