April Holm
Assistant Professor of History
Phone Number: (662)915-6945
Email: aholm@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/2011/11/18/april-holm-assistant-professor/

Key Words: Nineteenth century United States, sectionalism, Civil War, Reconstruction, Christianity, slavery and emancipation, border states, morality

Research Description: April Holm is a historian of the nineteenth century United States with a particular interest in sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, morality, slavery and emancipation, and the border region. Her work concerns the intersection of the moral and religious with the political. Her first book, _A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era_ will be published by LSU press in December 2017. She is currently at work on a project about provost marshals and civilians in occupied areas during the Civil War. Professor Holm received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2010 and spent a year as at Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School and The New-York Historical Society. She joined the University of Mississippi in 2011.

Honors Theses:

Whittington, Reagan Elizabeth (2021) "The Unhappy Class of Females": An Examination of Non-Elite White Women in the Civil War-Era South (full text)