Joshua Frye

Executive Administrator for Emerging Civil War Josh currently resides on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation, fifty miles north of Mobile, Alabama. He brings an extensive background in the historical film production field. His main areas of historical interest are the American Civil War, Revolutionary War, and War of 1812. As the owner of Foxhole Film […]

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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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Kristen M. Trout

Missouri native, Kristen M. Trout is the Museum Director of the Missouri Civil War Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Gettysburg College in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Civil War Era Studies. In 2018, she earned her Master of Arts in Nonprofit Leadership from Webster University in St. […]

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Lee White

William Lee White is a park ranger at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, where he gives tours and other programs at the Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain Battlefields. He is the author of Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, part of the Emerging Civil War Series, as well as several articles […]

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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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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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Rob Orrison

Rob received his Bachelor’s Degree in Historic Preservation at Longwood University and received his Master’s Degree in Public History from George Mason University. Currently Rob serves as the Director for the Prince William County Office of Historic Preservation. Rob also serves on the Board of Directors of the Frontier Culture Museum and serves as the […]

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Robert Lee Hodge

Robert Lee, a living historian well known in reenacting circles for his devotion to accuracy, has also worked passionately in the preservation community for nearly three decades. In 1999, Rob came to national prominence upon the publication of Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic; Rob appeared as a major character in the book and also […]

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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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