Susannah J. Ural

Susannah J. Ural is The Frank & Virginia Williams Chair in Abraham Lincoln and Civil War History at Mississippi State University. She is also co-director of the federally funded Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project, which digitizes, transcribes, and annotates the state’s governors’ papers from 1859-1882 and makes these freely available online (CWRGM.org). Ural holds a Ph.D. in history from Kansas State University and specializes in nineteenth-century America, especially the military history of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. She served as president of the Mississippi Historical Society in 2017 and is an active member of the Society of Civil War Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the Society for Military History. She served as chair of the editorial board of The Journal of Military History from 2014-2019 and is a member of the editorial board of War and Society. Ural is the author of The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (NYU Press, 2006), Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict (NYU Press, 2010), and Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It (Osprey, 2013), which Ural wrote to help general audiences understand the historical significance of the American Civil War. Her latest book is Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy’s Most Celebrated Unit (LSU Press, 2017).

Presentations

• Learning from Mississippians about the Civil War & Reconstruction
• Lessons in Leadership from Abraham Lincoln