Susannah J. Ural

Susannah Ural holds a Ph.D. in history from Kansas State University. She specializes in nineteenth-century America, with an emphasis on the socio-military experiences of U.S. Civil War soldiers and their families. She is co-director of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society and former co-director of the Center for the Study of the Gulf South at Southern Miss. Dr. Ural teaches courses on the U.S. Civil War era and classes relating to the larger nineteenth-century, including “Mark Twain’s America,” as well as instructing history majors on research and writing methods. 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 serves as chair of the editorial board of The Journal of Military History and is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of the Civil War Era, War and Society and the magazine Civil War Times. In 2013, Osprey Press released Dr. Ural’s book, Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It, 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).