The Journal of the Civil Battle Period is pleased to introduce that Dr. J. Jacob Calhoun has been picked as the recipient of the Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Honor for 2025 His winning essay is entitled, “‘Nothing was understood of the dead’: Coroners and the Massacres of 1866”
The reward committee, including Paul Barba (chair), Erin Mauldin, and Whitney Stewart, commended the article as follows: “By closely and creatively interrogating the records of the coroner’s workplaces in Memphis and New Orleans in the results of the 1866 bloodbaths, Calhoun exposes the large power and responsibility vested in these officials and their institutions. Dramatically, Calhoun shows in persuading fashion how these guys formed both the government’s investigations of mass racist violence and just how historians have actually analyzed these turning points in Civil War era background. Insightful and careful, Calhoun’s essay brings into relief the enduring methodological value of close analyses and relative lenses.”
Calhoun is a Byron K. Trippet Aide Teacher of Background and the David A. Moore Chair in American Background at Wabash University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Nau Facility for Civil Battle History 2024 – 2025, and he received his PhD from the College of Virginia in 2024 His research focuses on the history of emancipation and Restoration, particularly the crossway between national politics, race, and physical violence.
The Kaye Award is granted every 2 years and is co-sponsored by the JCWE , the Society of Civil Battle Historians, the University of North Carolina Press, and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Age Center.
Robert Bland
Robert D. Bland is Teacher Background of Studies and Africana College at the Relevant of Tennessee, Knoxville
Related