- Ph.D. in History, Rice University, 2003
- M.A. in History, Wake Forest University, 1998
- B.A. in History, University of Richmond, 1996
- Authored Books:
Prophecies of Blood: Anticipation and the American Civil War (in progress)
 Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2007)
- Edited Books:
Master Narratives: Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming)
- Selected Articles & Essays:
“Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact.” Paul Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds., The Great Task Remaining before Us: Reconstructionas America's Continuing Civil War’s Unfinished Business (Fordham University Press, 2010): 154-72.
“ The Return of the Beards, ” Reviews in American History; 37.3 (September 2009): 463-469
“ What America Lost, Buried, and Became ” Reviews in American History 36.4 (December 2008): 519-528
“Battling Stereotypes: A Taxonomy of Common Soldiers in Civil War History.” History Compass (September 2008)..
“The Grape Vine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence.” David Roediger, ed., The Best American History Essays, 2008 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 203–234. [Reprint]
“A Brothers’ War? Exploring Confederate Perceptions of the Enemy.” Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., The View from the Ground: The Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2007): 67–90.
“Against All Odds.” Civil War Times (November/December 2007), 22–29.
"The Grapevine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence." Journal of Southern History (November 2006): 753-88.
“Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1865–1876.” Mississippi History Now (May 2006).
“Religious Belief and Troop Motivation: ‘For the Smile of My Blessed Savior.’” Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, eds., Virginia’s Civil War (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005), 101–113.
Papers presented to numerous associations, including the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society of Civil War Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Southern Intellectual History Circle, the Lincoln Symposium at Lincoln Memorial University, the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, the Millsaps Arts and Lectures Series, Millsaps College, the Mississippi Historical Society, and the Georgia Historical Society.
Books reviewed for many journals, including American Historical Review, American Nineteenth Century History, Civil War History, the Journal of Southern History, Reviews in American History, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
Dean's Eminent Scholar, College of Arts and Sciences, MSU, 2009 2010
William E. Parrish Faculty Award, Department of History, MSU, 2007
HARP Research Fellow, Mississippi State University, 2005
James W. Gardner Award, Rice University, 2003
Captain Charles Septimus Longcope Award, Rice University, 2003
Pew Younger Scholar, University of Notre Dame, 2001
Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, 2001
The Civil War and Reconstruction
American Military History
The Old South
The New South
Graduate Colloquium on the Old South
Graduate Seminar on American History before 1877
Graduate Colloquium on American History, 1789–1877
Graduate Research Seminar in Southern History
Graduate Historiography and Methods
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