Associate Professor (1992)
B.A., North Carolina State University, 1978; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982, 1991
Teaching and Research Interests: Civil War Era, American Indian
Upper Division Courses:
- HIST 3230 American Military History
- HIST 5130 American Indian History
- HIST 5134 The Civil War Era and Reconstruction
Website:
Office Hours for Fall 2008: MW 12:00-1:00, or by appointment
Contact Information:
1121 Forest Drive
PO Box 8054
Department of History
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054
Tel.: (912) 478-0242
Fax: (912) 478-0377
acdowns@georgiasouthern.edu
Publications:
- “‘The Responsibility is Great’: Joseph E. Johnston and the War in Virginia” in Civil War Generals in Defeat. Steven E. Woodworth, ed. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999)
- “Civilizing the ‘Roving Pagans of the Prairie” North & South Vol. 2, No. 4 (April 1999)
Professional Activities, Awards, and Honors:
- Western
History Association
- Civil War Historians of the
Western Theater
Current Research:
- Gone Past All Redemption: Joseph E. Johnston and the Fall of Vicksburg (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, under revision)
- The Civil War in Indian Country, a book proposal for Rowman & Littlefield’s American Crisis Series.
- Research underway for a book on the Confederate Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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