Bradley S. Keefer
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- School: Kent State University
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800 E Summit St
Kent, OH - 44240 - Dates at Kent State University: November 2008 - August 2013
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Biography
Kent State University - History
Experience
Kent State Stark Campus
Adjunct Instructor
I taught between 2 and 4 classes and did academic advising on a semester by semester basis, including summer courses. I worked on and completed my doctoral studies while teaching at the Stark Campus.
Kent State University Ashtabula
Assistant Professor
This served as my probationary period until earning tenure and promotion.
Kent State University at Tuscarawas
Adjunct Instructor
Started teaching here and eventually began teaching at Stark as well. Received two part-time distinguished teaching awards while working at this campus.
Kent State University at Ashtabula
Associate Professor
This promotion accompanied my earning tenure, which was granted in May, 2013.
Education
Kent State University
Master’s Degree
History
Thesis: "They Stood to Their Guns: the 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1862-65." Advisor: Dr. Frank L. ByrneKent State University
PhD
History
Publications
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl Hess
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 3, August, 2014, pp. 732-33
This book does an excellent job explaining the details and significance of this 1864 battle. Units from the Army of the Cumberland were involved and helped preserve the battlefield after the war, in spite of their claim that Sherman needlessly sacrificed their comrades in this battle.
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl Hess
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 3, August, 2014, pp. 732-33
This book does an excellent job explaining the details and significance of this 1864 battle. Units from the Army of the Cumberland were involved and helped preserve the battlefield after the war, in spite of their claim that Sherman needlessly sacrificed their comrades in this battle.
Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining Wars and the Memory of Wars
Cambridge Scholars Press
This is a collection of essays by various authors on subjects pertaining to civilians, war, and war memory. I contributed two chapters to this work: “Thus Ends the First Sympathizing War”: Archibald McGregor and The Newspaper War of Words in Canton, Ohio, 1861-1864 and Shameful is the Nation that Forgets: Collective Memory, Civil War Reenacting and Battlefield Preservation
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl Hess
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 3, August, 2014, pp. 732-33
This book does an excellent job explaining the details and significance of this 1864 battle. Units from the Army of the Cumberland were involved and helped preserve the battlefield after the war, in spite of their claim that Sherman needlessly sacrificed their comrades in this battle.
Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining Wars and the Memory of Wars
Cambridge Scholars Press
This is a collection of essays by various authors on subjects pertaining to civilians, war, and war memory. I contributed two chapters to this work: “Thus Ends the First Sympathizing War”: Archibald McGregor and The Newspaper War of Words in Canton, Ohio, 1861-1864 and Shameful is the Nation that Forgets: Collective Memory, Civil War Reenacting and Battlefield Preservation
Review: Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, by Caroline Janney
Civil War Book Review, Fall 2013
This very favorable review of a work on Civil War memory by a excellent historian. It challenges the notion that I put forth in my book that reconciliation between the North and South was mostly a done deal by the start of the War with Spain in 1898. She makes a great case that while the nation was reunited, there were lingering animosities over race, wartime atrocities, and other issues.
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl Hess
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 3, August, 2014, pp. 732-33
This book does an excellent job explaining the details and significance of this 1864 battle. Units from the Army of the Cumberland were involved and helped preserve the battlefield after the war, in spite of their claim that Sherman needlessly sacrificed their comrades in this battle.
Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining Wars and the Memory of Wars
Cambridge Scholars Press
This is a collection of essays by various authors on subjects pertaining to civilians, war, and war memory. I contributed two chapters to this work: “Thus Ends the First Sympathizing War”: Archibald McGregor and The Newspaper War of Words in Canton, Ohio, 1861-1864 and Shameful is the Nation that Forgets: Collective Memory, Civil War Reenacting and Battlefield Preservation
Review: Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, by Caroline Janney
Civil War Book Review, Fall 2013
This very favorable review of a work on Civil War memory by a excellent historian. It challenges the notion that I put forth in my book that reconciliation between the North and South was mostly a done deal by the start of the War with Spain in 1898. She makes a great case that while the nation was reunited, there were lingering animosities over race, wartime atrocities, and other issues.
Conflicting Memories on the River of Death: the Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933
Kent State University Press
This is the final product of my 2006 dissertation revised into a monograph. A summary can be found on the KSU Press website. Needless to say, I am proud of this book and hope that folks will read it.
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl Hess
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 3, August, 2014, pp. 732-33
This book does an excellent job explaining the details and significance of this 1864 battle. Units from the Army of the Cumberland were involved and helped preserve the battlefield after the war, in spite of their claim that Sherman needlessly sacrificed their comrades in this battle.
Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining Wars and the Memory of Wars
Cambridge Scholars Press
This is a collection of essays by various authors on subjects pertaining to civilians, war, and war memory. I contributed two chapters to this work: “Thus Ends the First Sympathizing War”: Archibald McGregor and The Newspaper War of Words in Canton, Ohio, 1861-1864 and Shameful is the Nation that Forgets: Collective Memory, Civil War Reenacting and Battlefield Preservation
Review: Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, by Caroline Janney
Civil War Book Review, Fall 2013
This very favorable review of a work on Civil War memory by a excellent historian. It challenges the notion that I put forth in my book that reconciliation between the North and South was mostly a done deal by the start of the War with Spain in 1898. She makes a great case that while the nation was reunited, there were lingering animosities over race, wartime atrocities, and other issues.
Conflicting Memories on the River of Death: the Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933
Kent State University Press
This is the final product of my 2006 dissertation revised into a monograph. A summary can be found on the KSU Press website. Needless to say, I am proud of this book and hope that folks will read it.
Review: The Brave Men of Company A: The Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edward S. Cooper
Ohio History, accepted for the spring 2017 issue
A detailed account of one company in the 41st Ohio during its very active service in the Civil War. The 41st produced several successful officers who rose through the the ranks after leaving the regiment. The book is built around the letters and journal of one Company A's enlisted men.
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl Hess
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 3, August, 2014, pp. 732-33
This book does an excellent job explaining the details and significance of this 1864 battle. Units from the Army of the Cumberland were involved and helped preserve the battlefield after the war, in spite of their claim that Sherman needlessly sacrificed their comrades in this battle.
Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining Wars and the Memory of Wars
Cambridge Scholars Press
This is a collection of essays by various authors on subjects pertaining to civilians, war, and war memory. I contributed two chapters to this work: “Thus Ends the First Sympathizing War”: Archibald McGregor and The Newspaper War of Words in Canton, Ohio, 1861-1864 and Shameful is the Nation that Forgets: Collective Memory, Civil War Reenacting and Battlefield Preservation
Review: Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, by Caroline Janney
Civil War Book Review, Fall 2013
This very favorable review of a work on Civil War memory by a excellent historian. It challenges the notion that I put forth in my book that reconciliation between the North and South was mostly a done deal by the start of the War with Spain in 1898. She makes a great case that while the nation was reunited, there were lingering animosities over race, wartime atrocities, and other issues.
Conflicting Memories on the River of Death: the Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933
Kent State University Press
This is the final product of my 2006 dissertation revised into a monograph. A summary can be found on the KSU Press website. Needless to say, I am proud of this book and hope that folks will read it.
Review: The Brave Men of Company A: The Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edward S. Cooper
Ohio History, accepted for the spring 2017 issue
A detailed account of one company in the 41st Ohio during its very active service in the Civil War. The 41st produced several successful officers who rose through the the ranks after leaving the regiment. The book is built around the letters and journal of one Company A's enlisted men.
Review: Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland, by Larry J. Daniel
Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 1, pp. 208-09
This is my generally favorable review of a work on the December 31, 1862--January 2,1863 Civil War battle of Stones River by a respected historian in a very good scholarly journal. This was the battle prior to the Chickamauga Campaign that is the subject of my book. Many of the same units and commanders were in both battles.
Review: Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors
Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 112, Number 2 (June 2016), pp. 134-35.
An excellent coffee table book that has prominent historians discussing their favorite Civil War era photographs. It is insightful, personal, and quite enlightening. Highly recommended
Review: Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl Hess
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 3, August, 2014, pp. 732-33
This book does an excellent job explaining the details and significance of this 1864 battle. Units from the Army of the Cumberland were involved and helped preserve the battlefield after the war, in spite of their claim that Sherman needlessly sacrificed their comrades in this battle.
Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining Wars and the Memory of Wars
Cambridge Scholars Press
This is a collection of essays by various authors on subjects pertaining to civilians, war, and war memory. I contributed two chapters to this work: “Thus Ends the First Sympathizing War”: Archibald McGregor and The Newspaper War of Words in Canton, Ohio, 1861-1864 and Shameful is the Nation that Forgets: Collective Memory, Civil War Reenacting and Battlefield Preservation
Review: Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, by Caroline Janney
Civil War Book Review, Fall 2013
This very favorable review of a work on Civil War memory by a excellent historian. It challenges the notion that I put forth in my book that reconciliation between the North and South was mostly a done deal by the start of the War with Spain in 1898. She makes a great case that while the nation was reunited, there were lingering animosities over race, wartime atrocities, and other issues.
Conflicting Memories on the River of Death: the Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933
Kent State University Press
This is the final product of my 2006 dissertation revised into a monograph. A summary can be found on the KSU Press website. Needless to say, I am proud of this book and hope that folks will read it.
Review: The Brave Men of Company A: The Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edward S. Cooper
Ohio History, accepted for the spring 2017 issue
A detailed account of one company in the 41st Ohio during its very active service in the Civil War. The 41st produced several successful officers who rose through the the ranks after leaving the regiment. The book is built around the letters and journal of one Company A's enlisted men.
Review: Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland, by Larry J. Daniel
Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXX, No. 1, pp. 208-09
This is my generally favorable review of a work on the December 31, 1862--January 2,1863 Civil War battle of Stones River by a respected historian in a very good scholarly journal. This was the battle prior to the Chickamauga Campaign that is the subject of my book. Many of the same units and commanders were in both battles.
Review: The Best Writings of Ulysses S. Grant edited by John F. Marszalek and Grant Under Fire: An Expose of Generalship and Character in the American Civil War by Joseph A. Rose
Military History of the West, Vol. 45, pp. 91-93
This review compares Marszalek's very favorable view of Grant as a great man with Rose's extremely critical, meticulously documented, 800 page hatchet job on the Union General and President of the United States.
