Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott was American History Fellow at Smarthistory in 2021–2022. Previously, she was Senior Content Creator in Humanities at Khan Academy. Kim earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in United States cultural history, visual culture, and religion. Her dissertation, “Lincoln’s Ghosts: The Posthumous Career of an American Icon,” was the recipient of the Hay-Nicolay Prize. Kim was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech and Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Mary Washington.

Memory and commemoration of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

The Lost Cause and Confederate memory

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

Abraham Lincoln and northern memory

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

Refugees, prisoners, and displacement

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

Homes and families

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

The work of war

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

Experiences of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

Imagining the West, territorial expansion, and the politics of slavery

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

The Missouri Compromise and the dangerous precedent of appeasement

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

Images in a divided world

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

The problem of picturing slavery

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott

“The Immediate Cause of the Civil War,” an introduction

by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott