Dr. April Holm is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. April Holm is a historian of the nineteenth century United States with a particular interest in sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Christianity, and the border states. Her work concerns the intersection of the moral and the political.
She is currently at work on a book about provost marshals and civilians in the occupied border states during the Civil War. This project reveals how civilians and the army created and contested occupation in the border states during the American Civil War.
Biography
Dr. 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. She served as the center's Interim Director from 2020 to 2021, and in 2022, she became the director of the Center for Civil War Research.
Publications
Courses Taught
- HST 105 The United States to 1877
- HST 130 Intro to US History to 1877
- HST 333 The Era of the Civil War, 1850-1877
- HST 400 Undergrad Research: US History
- HST 404 US- The Civil War Era, 1848-1877
- HST 498 Undergrad Research Seminar in History
- HST 505 Historiography - US to Reconstruction
- HST 605 Readings - US through Reconstruction
- HST 611 Readings - Era of the US Civil War
- HST 693 Readings: General US History
Education
M.A. History, Columbia University (2004)
M.P.H. History, Columbia University (2006)
Ph.D. History, Columbia University (2010)