Thomas Brown, 2015–2016 | National Humanities Center

Thomas J. Brown (NHC Fellow, 2015–16)

Project Title

The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War

University of South Carolina

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2015–16

Thomas J. Brown completed a draft of his book, The Transformation of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War. He also edited a previously drafted article, “Monuments and Ruins: Atlanta and Columbia Remember Sherman” for the Journal of American Studies, FirstView publication (March 2016) and participated in a forum on “Reconstruction’s Sesquicentennial,” forthcoming in Journal of the Civil War Era.