Education
B.A. (History), The Pennsylvania State University, 1998.
M.A. (American History), Western Carolina University, 2001.
Ph.D. (History), University of Georgia, 2009.
Areas of Academic Specialty
19th Century U.S., Civil War and Reconstruction Era, Appalachian History, Southern
History, Public History, Environmental History
About Dr. Nash
Steven Nash has been teaching at ETSU since 2009. He is the author of Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Mountain South (UNC Press, 2016), which received the Weatherford Award for Nonfiction awarded by Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association. In 2010, he helped organize the Society of Appalachian Historians and helped plan its annual meetings through 2023. He maintains a strong interest in public history, serving as President of the Mountain History and Culture Group, a non-profit support board for the Zebulon B. Vance State Historic Site in Weaverville, North Carolina.
He is currently working on a number of projects including a study of Reconstruction in North Carolina as a whole, an edited volume on a Southern Republican, and a larger study of emancipation in Southern Appalachia.
Books
Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Recipient of the 2016 Weatherford Award for Best Nonfiction Book in Appalachian Studies. Awarded by the Loyal Jones Center at Berea College and Appalachian Studies Association.
Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South. Co-edited with Bruce E. Stewart. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Fighting the 'Laurel War': The Civil War Inside Cornelia Henry’s Household,” Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South, edited by Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
“‘The Devil Let Loose Generally’: James W. Hunnicutt’s Conceptualization of the Union in Fredericksburg.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 126, no. 3, 2018. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26478280.
“Love is a Battlefield: Lizzie Alsop’s Flirtation with the Confederacy,” Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges, edited by Stephen W. Berry II. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.
“’The Other War Was But the Beginning’: The Politics of Loyalty in Western North Carolina, 1865-1867,” in Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath, edited by Andrew L. Slap. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
“’The Immortal Vance’: The Political Commemoration of North Carolina’s War Governor” in North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, edited by Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
“’In the Right Place and at the Right Time’: The Relationship of Ulysses S. Grant and Philip H. Sheridan,” in Grant's Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox, edited by Steven E. Woodworth. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
“Aiding the Southern Mountain Republicans: The Freedmen’s Bureau in Buncombe County,” North Carolina Historical Review (January 2006), vol. 83, number 1.