Brian Matthew Jordan
Autor de Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Sobre El Autor
Brian Matthew Jordan is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. He lives in Willis, Texas.
Obras de Brian Matthew Jordan
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862 (2011) 47 copias
The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict’s Most Intriguing… (2022) — Editor — 16 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1986
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Ohio, USA
- Educación
- Yale University (PhD|History|2013)
Gettysburg College (BA|History|2009) - Ocupaciones
- historian
university professor
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 236
- Popularidad
- #95,935
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 17
- Idiomas
- 1
Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home, a "powerful exploration" (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank of Civil War historians. Now, in A Thousand May Fall, Jordan sends us trundling along dusty roads with the 107th Ohio, an ethnically German infantry regiment whose members battled nativism no less than Confederate rebels.
The 107th was at once ordinary and exceptional: its ranks played central roles in two of the war's pivotal battles, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, even as language, identity, and popular perceptions of their loyalties set them apart. Drawing on many never-before-used sources, Jordan shows how, while enduring the horrible extremes of war, the men of the 107th Ohio contemplated the deeper meanings of the...… (más)