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Nina Silber

Professor of History Director, American and New England Studies Program at Boston University

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Nina Silber has taught in both the History Department and the American and New England Studies Program since coming to Boston University in 1990. Her research and teaching focus on the US Civil War, US women’s history, and the history of the American South, and she offers classes for both undergraduates and graduate students. On occasion she has also offered team-taught classes that explore the history and literature of the South. Her books include The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (1993); Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992); Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2005); and Gender and the Sectional Conflict (2009). She has been the recipient of numerous grants, including the Charles Warren Fellowship at Harvard University, a Fulbright Senior Lectureship at Charles University in Prague, and a Senior Research Fellowship through the Boston University Humanities Foundation. Aside from her teaching and research, Professor Silber has also worked on numerous public history projects, ranging from museum exhibitions at the Gettysburg National Military Park to film projects on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

Professor Silber is currently researching a new project that examines the various ways the Civil War was remembered, memorialized, and invoked in the years of the Great Depression and New Deal.

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The Confederate memorial: living, breathing — and raging — history – We can’t forget, for a moment, that Civil War was about slavery

October 21, 2017

The Boston Globe Nina Silber We can’t forget, for a moment, that Civil War was about slavery… Expert quote: “It is, in effect, another way some neo-Confederates have attempted to legally justify an act of treason and obfuscate the real reason for secession — a reason made abundantly clear by the state of Mississippi in […]

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Robert E. Lee Topples From His Pedestal

May 19, 2017

The Atlantic Nina Silber, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Workers began dismantling the Robert E. Lee monument in New Orleans on Friday, and will soon place it in temporary storage with three other such memorials…” Expert quote: “…honored Lee as a man of action, as a soldier who proved his masculinity by […]

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That time a mansplaining stranger told me I was a terrible mom

October 6, 2016

Boston Globe Nina Silber, College of Arts & Sciences Not long ago, I struck up a conversation with a woman seated next to me at the nail salon, as one sometimes does… Expert quote: “Our society has two contradictory legacies. We live with this idea that women can pursue any kind of career, but also the […]

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Gettysburg Address Still Resonates, 150 Years Later

November 19, 2013

NPR “Here & Now” Nina Silber, College of Arts & Sciences Listen to audio

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From the Fourth of July to Gettysburg

July 4, 2013

New York Times Nina Silber, College of Arts & Sciences David Brooks is right about Civil War soldiers’ strong political and ideological beliefs… View full article

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Anxious local families awaited Civil War news

July 3, 2013

Patriot Ledger Nina Silber, College of Arts & Sciences George Lewis was a carpenter. George Vining was a shoe-factory stitcher. At 22 and 20, the two Weymouth boys enlisted in the Union Army on the same day – June 26, 1861, two months after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War… […]

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From ‘Great Emancipator’ To ‘Vampire Hunter’: The Many Stovepipe Hats Of Cinematic Lincoln

November 26, 2012

WBUR “Cognoscenti” By Nina Silber, College of Arts & Sciences No American historical figure has been portrayed on screen more often than Abraham Lincoln… View article

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