UNC Press has published The Second Manassas Campaign, co-edited by 2024-2025 Richards Center Persun Visiting Scholar KT Shively.
The Second Manassas Campaign contains essays that contextualizes the military campaign’s political dimensions, logistics, aftermath, and more. Shively co-edited the volume with Caroline E. Janney.
Kathryn “KT” Shively is an associate professor of Civil War and Reconstruction history at Virginia Commonwealth University with specialties in early American military, environmental, and medical history. They are the author of Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (UNC Press, 2013) and co-editor with Caroline Janney of The Second Manassas Campaign (UNC Press, 2025). They also serve as co-PI with Paul Quigley (Virginia Tech) on the NEH-funded public history project, “Experiencing Civil War History Through Augmented Reality: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Environment at Pamplin Historical Park.” Their second monograph, History Wars: Jubal A. Early and the Confederate Origins of Modern American History, is under contract with University of Georgia Press for submission in 2025. Their favorite part of being a Civil War historian is giving battlefield tours, and they spend their non-working hours hosting bluegrass jams, making pies, hiking, and reading with their kid.
