Big news, not. But they published a book with my chapter in it. That is big news! At least to me.
Feel free to order a copy. Read it, even.
What’s an English prof writing about in a history book? Literature? No. Not even close. I did do visual rhetorical analysis in the piece. But I wrote about holidays and holiday celebrations during the Civil War. It was a lot of fun.
By the way, we are now 150 years away from the Civil War era.