E-mail: cmcwhirter@papersofabrahamlincoln.org
Ph.D., U. S. History, University of Alabama,
2009 (Dissertation: “Liberty’s Great Auxiliary: Music and the American Civil
War”).
M. A., History, University of Alabama, 2003.
B. A., English & History, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2000, Cum Laude.
Assistant Editor, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln,
2010-present.
Instructor, History Department, The University of Alabama, 2005-2008.
Historian in Residence, Teaching American History Program, The University of
Alabama, 2006-2007.
Editor, Southern Historian, 2001-2006.
Teaching Assistant, History Department, The University of Alabama, 2001-2004.
Publications
Articles
“Conversation: William W. Freehling,” Southern Historian 28 (2007): 7-31.
Essays & Reviews
Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America. M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming. S.vv. “Embargo Act,” “John Tyler,” “Manifest Destiny,” and “Stephen Foster.”
Review of Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, by Elijah Wald. In Southern Historian 27 (2006): 109-110.
Review of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, by T. J. Stiles. In Southern Historian 25 (2004): 116-118.
Review of Lee & His Army in Confederate History, by Gary Gallagher. In Southern Historian 24 (2003): 73-74.
Review of Music and the Making of a New South, by Gavin James Campbell. In Southern Historian 26 (2005): 126-127.
Review of The Myth of the Lost Cause in Civil War History, by Gary Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan, eds. In Southern Historian 23 (2002): 101-103.
Review of Southern Music/American Music, by Bill C. Malone and David Stricklin. In Southern Historian 26 (2005): 138-140.
Review of Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy & Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s, by Sarah Meer. In Southern Historian 28 (2007): 107-109.
Review of Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry – Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862, by Kendall D. Gott. In West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 58 (2004), 125-127.
Presentations
“The Union ‘Marseillaise’: ‘John Brown’s Body,’ The Northern War Effort, and Civil War Music.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 31-April 3, 2010.
“‘The Choked Voice of a Race, at Last Unloosed:’ African-American Music and the American Civil War.” Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 6-7, 2009.
“‘Let Us Unite in the Selection of One ‘Dixie’ and upon this Be a Solid South:’ The Alabama United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Movement to Change the Words of ‘Dixie.’” Alabama Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Livingston, Alabama, February 6-7, 2009.
Awards
The University of Alabama
Graduate Council Fellowship (2008).
Graduate Student Research and Travel Support Award, The University of Alabama
(2008, 2007).
Mark C. Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library,
University of Michigan (2007).
Research Fellowship, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky (2007).
Johnson Dissertation Research Fellowship, The University of Alabama (2007).
Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society (2007).
Student Government Association Research Grant, The University of Alabama (2006).
Service and Dedication Award, Southern Historian, The University of
Alabama (2006, 2005).
James E. Jacobson Award, The University of Alabama Office of Student Media
(2005).
National Golden Key Honor Society (1997).
Ontario Scholarship Award (1996).