Sarah Kay Bierle

Former Managing Editor Sarah Kay Bierle has a B.A. in History from Thomas Edison State University and is currently working in the American Battlefield Trust’s Education Department. “History, research, and writing are my passion,” she says. “I desire to make history more understandable and accessible to Americans who stumble through school thinking history is a […]

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Paige Gibbons Backus

Social Media Manager A native of Wisconsin, Paige graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a bachelor’s degree in Historic Preservation and George Mason University with a master’s degree in Applied History. She has been in the public history field for close to ten years focusing on educational programming and operations working at several […]

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Todd Arrington

Todd is a career National Park Service historian, park ranger, and manager with more than twenty years of federal service. He has worked in four different historical parks and is currently the Site Manager of James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio.  He credits his family’s move to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania when he was […]

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James Brookes

James Brookes is a Ph.D. candidate at Great Britain’s University of Nottingham, where he completed a B.A. and M.Res. in American Studies in 2013 and 2015 respectively. During his undergraduate study he spent a year abroad in the U.S. at the College of William and Mary. James’ undergraduate dissertation was an examination of the significance […]

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Kristopher D. White

Kris White is a co-founder of Emerging Civil War. Kris is the deputy director of education at the American Battlefield Trust. White is a graduate of Norwich University with an M.A. in Military History, as well as a graduate of California University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in History. For nearly five years he served […]

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James Broomall

James J. Broomall is the director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War (GTMC) and an assistant professor of history at Shepherd University. Along with William A. Link—his Ph.D. mentor—Broomall most recently co-edited and published Rethinking American Emancipation: Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom (Cambridge University […]

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Daniel T. Davis

Daniel T. Davis graduated from Longwood University with a B.A. in Public History in 2005. He worked for five years as a historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and Appomattox Court House National Historic Site. He is the webmaster for Emerging Civil War. Dan currently resides in Fredericksburg, VA with his wife and […]

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Julie Mujic

Julie A. Mujic is an Adjunct Professor at Capital University and a freelance indexer. She graduated from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in 2001 and was a Financial Analyst for General Electric before pursuing a Ph.D. in History from Kent State University. She graduated in 2012 and taught at Sacred Heart University for four […]

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Matthew Stanley

Matthew E. Stanley, Ph.D., is assistant professor of history at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. He teaches courses on Slavery, the U.S. South, Public History, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Long Civil Rights Movement. Stanley has contributed to The Public Historian, Civil War History, The Civil War Monitor, Ohio Valley History, Middle […]

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