Elizabeth D. Leonard | UNC Press Civil War 150

Elizabeth D. Leonard co-winner of 2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

Elizabeth D. Leonard is co-winner of the prestigious 2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for her book Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. Receiving honorable mention is Barbara A. Gannon for her book The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. [...]

Elizabeth D. Leonard: Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally – An Excerpt

An excerpt from the new release Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky, by Elizabeth D. Leonard. [...]

July Roundup: UNC Press Authors in the Media

Recent blog & radio appearances [...]

Elizabeth D. Leonard: A Historian’s Review of ‘The Conspirator’

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Movie review from the biographer of Joseph Holt. [...]

Elizabeth D. Leonard: Why We Still Study the Civil War

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The war, and what happened after the shooting stopped, offers hard lessons we cannot ignore. [...]