E-mail: sscott@papersofabrahamlincoln.org
Ph.D., History, 2008, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN
M.A., History, 2000, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
B.A. History, 1998, magna cum laude, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC
Assistant Editor, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln,
National Archives, Jan. 2010-present
Assistant Professor, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, AR, Aug.
2008-Dec. 2009
Adjunct Instructor, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH, Aug. 2006-Dec. 2007
Graduate Instructor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Aug. 2004-May 2005
Publications
Books
A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War. New York, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Articles
“‘Good Children Die Happy’: Children and Youth
Confront Death during the Civil War,” in Children, Youth, and the Sectional
Conflict, ed. James Marten. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
“‘Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Cure’: Northern Civilian Perspectives
on Death and Eternity During the Civil War.” Journal of Social History
41 (Summer 2008):
843-66.
“Providence and the Union: Hoosier Laity Interpret the Civil War.” Journal of
the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences (2005): 19-30.
Essays & Reviews
Robert F. Engs and Corey M. Brooks, eds.,
Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County,
Ohio. Forthcoming 2010, Ohio History.
David L. Rowe, God’s Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World.
Church History 79 (March 2010): 222-24.
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil
War, and Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War
and America’s Culture of Death. Journal of Social History 43 (Spring
2010): 739-43.
James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt, Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil
War. Ohio History 116 (2009): 133-35.
“Desertion/Presidential Pardons” and “Great Emancipator,” in The Political
Lincoln: An Encyclopedia, ed. Paul Finkelman and Martin Hershock (2008),
211-13, 303-05.
Stewart Bennett and Barbara Tillery, eds., The Struggle for the Life of the
Republic: A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. Ohio History 114 (2007): 165-66.
Peter J. Kastor, The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the
Creation of America. Fides et Historia 37:2/38:1 (Summer 2005/Winter
2006): 258-59.
Richard M. Budd, Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military
Chaplaincy, 1860-1920. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
100:4 (Autumn 2002): 540-41.
Presentations
“‘This Accursed War is Doing
Religion and the Church Serious Injury’: Northern Christians and Perceived
Spiritual Decline during the Civil War.” Third Annual Baylor Symposium on Faith
and Culture, Waco, TX, October 8, 2009.
“‘Gone to Live Forever’: Methodist Obituaries of Children and Youth during the
Civil War.” Thirty-First Mid-America Conference on History, Norman, OK, October
2, 2009.
“The Baptism of Miss Armstrong: Parental Authority, Ministerial Duty, and the
Religious Liberty of a Minor in 1840s Pennsylvania.” Roger Williams
University Conference on Religion and the State, Bristol, RI, April 24, 2009.
“‘The Cement of Morality Is Gone’: Perspectives of Union Soldiers on New Orleans
during the Civil War.” Southern Historical Association 74th Annual Meeting, New
Orleans, LA, October 11, 2008.
“‘We Must Have Revenge’: The Views of Religious Northern Women Toward Rebels and
Copperheads.” Indiana Association of Historians 28th Annual Meeting,
Indianapolis, IN, February 23, 2008.
“‘How Mysterious Are the Ways of Providence’: Northern Civilian Attitudes toward
the Assassination of Lincoln.” Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 5, 2007.
“‘A Butternut Prayed Out of Church’: The Politicization of Religion in the
Midwest during the Civil War.” 31st Annual Great Lakes History Conference, Grand
Rapids, MI, October 20, 2006.
“‘May God Give Us Wisdom in This Crisis’: A Northern Religious Interpretation of
Secession.” Ohio Academy of History, New Concord, OH, April 8, 2006.
“Providence and the Union: Hoosier Laity Interpret the Civil War.” Indiana
Academy of Social Sciences, Terre Haute, IN, October 21, 2005.
Awards
Participant in the
Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Lehrman American Studies Center 5th Annual
Summer Institute, hosted by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and
Institutions, Princeton University, June 15-27, 2009
OBU Faculty Research Grant, 2009
Purdue Research Foundation Grant, 2005-2006 school year and summer 2005
Purdue Department of History Woodman Travel Grant, 2003 and 2004