Dr. Lorien Foote

Biography

Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of four books, including 'Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, Campaigns in the American Civil War,' which was awarded the 2022 Organization of American Historians Civil War Reconstruction Book Award. Her earlier works include 'Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners of War' (2016), recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and 'Gentlemen and Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army' (2010), which was a finalist for the honorable mention of the 2011 Lincoln Prize. Dr. Foote is also a co-editor of 'The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War' (2021). She is the creator and principal investigator of the Digital Humanities Project 'Fugitive Federals,' which visualizes the escape movement of 3,000 Federal prisoners of war during the American Civil War. Her research interests focus on War & Society, specifically the 19th-Century U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction.

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