Sarah J. Purcell

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Sarah Purcell is an American historian. She is the L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

Purcell did a history BA at Grinnell College in 1992,[1][2] and an AM and PhD at Brown University, in 1993 and 1997 respectively. She taught at Central Michigan University until 2000, when she went to Grinnell. She has specialised in American history, particularly Civil War and military topics.[3]

Books[]

  • Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America[4]
  • Eyewitness History: The Early American Republic.[5]
  • The Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517-1915 (Best of Reference award winner, New York Public Library, 2000)[6]
  • Critical Lives: The Life and Work of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Her next book will be Spectacle of Grief: The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Davis, Amanda (13 April 2003). "She's Not History". Scarlet and Black. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  2. ^ Park, Rebecca (16 February 2007). "Beloved Professor Passed Away Sat". Scarlet and Black. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  3. ^ "purcelsj | Grinnell College". www.grinnell.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  4. ^ Cheng, Eileen Ka-May (2002). "Review of Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America". Journal of the Early Republic. 22 (4): 696–698. doi:10.2307/3124766. JSTOR 3124766.
  5. ^ Webb, Julie (December 2004). "The Early National Period (review)". School Library Journal. 50: 87 – via EBSCOhost.
  6. ^ Keenan, Jerry (2002). "Review of Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517-1916". The Journal of Military History. 66 (1): 215–216. doi:10.2307/2677369. JSTOR 2677369.
  7. ^ "Mapping the Spectacle of Grief | Grinnell College". www.grinnell.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-19.


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