Daryl Black

Copie Hill Civil War Fellow, American Battlefield Trust

Daryl Black, Copie Civil War Fellow at the American Battlefield Trust

Daryl Black is a Copie Hill Civil War Fellow at the American Battlefield Trust. He received his Ph.D. in American Cultural History from the University of California, Irvine in 2001. A life-long student of the Civil War, he has taught at the university level and worked in museum settings for over 20 years. He is currently working on a religious history of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. He has presented research at the annual conferences of The Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, National Council on Public History, Society for Historical Archaeology, the Popular Culture Association, the American Historical Association, the American Alliance of Museums, and the Society of Civil War Historians. His published work includes, “Our Victory Here Has Been Complete”: The War in Tennessee: 1863” appeared in Cambridge History of the American Civil War ed. Aaron S. Dean (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and “Relics of Reunion: Souvenirs and Memory at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 1889-1895” that appeared in Popular Culture and the American Civil War: Memory and Meaning ed. Lawrence A. Kreiser, Randal Allred (University Press of Kentucky, 2014).