Jack Temple Kirby was a staunch supporter of the union–the union, that is, between Civil War studies and environmental history. In 2001 Kirby, a historian at Miami University (and later the Bancroft Prize–winning author ofMockingbird Song, an environmental history of the American South) penned an online essay for the National Humanities Center in which he wondered why the two academic fields had never gotten together. Environmental history had, at that point, at least two decades of impressive growth behind it. Civil War historians, meanwhile, had spent those same twenty-plus years marching away from a narrow focus on...
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