In a recent C-Span interview, Professor of History Jeff McClurken discusses the difficulties families faced after the United States Civil War as their loved ones returned from the conflict. McClurken, author of Take Care of the Living: Reconstruction of Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia, explores the consequences of the war for more than 3,000 Confederate soldiers […]
The History and American Studies Department is happy to announce that Dr. Steven Harris’ book, Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin, was recently published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press.Book description:This book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens […]
