ECW Welcomes Melissa Winn

ECW is pleased to welcome a new member.

Melissa A. Winn is the Director of Marketing and Communications for the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Previously, she was the Marketing Manager for the American Battlefield Trust and Director of Photography for HistoryNet, publisher of nine history-related magazines, including America’s Civil War, American History, and Civil War Times, for which she served as the primary photo researcher, photographer, and a regular writer.

Melissa is a Senior Editor for Military Images magazine, with a regular column focused on women and the Civil War. She is the editor of Shavings, the member newsletter of the Early American Industries Association, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Civil War Roundtable Congress; and serves as President of the Bull Run Civil War Round Table.

Melissa received a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin, with a concentration on creative nonfiction writing. She has written for and published articles in multiple trade and commercial publications for more than 20 years. She was a 2015 finalist for the Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Portfolio.

Melissa is a member of the Professional Photographers Association, Authors Guild, Women’s Relief Corps, and the Center for Civil War Photography. She collects Civil War photographs and ephemera, with an emphasis on Dead Letter Office images and Union General John A. Rawlins, chief of staff to General Ulysses S. Grant.

Melissa has been actively involved with ECW for the last few years. Besides photographing our symposium for the last couple of years, here’s a list of her activity from the ECW archives:

• Reimagining the Civil War Round Table: Inside the CWRT’s Innovative Workshops
• Framing History: Echoes of the Aurora
• Framing History: Funding Freedom
• Framing History: Chatham’s Beauty and Bloodshed
• Framing History: Sunrise Over Surrender
• Framing History: Ode – On Hearing the Drum
• Framing the Past: Where Legends Stand
• At the Lectern: Booking Speakers for Your Civil War Round Table
• Civil War Surprises: A Wisconsin Corporal’s Fateful Dare