Cecily Zander, Ph.D.

Contact

czander@twu.edu

Website

Biography

Cecily N. Zander is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas Woman’s University and a Senior Fellow at Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History. Her first book, The Army Under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in February 2024. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Huntington Library, the University of Oklahoma’s Western History Collections, and the United States Army Center for Military History. She has published essays on the Civil War and the American West in numerous edited collections, scholarly journals, and popular magazines.

Education

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
M.A., Pennsylvania State University
B.A., History, University of Virginia

Expertise

Civil War; Frontier; American West; Memory; Popular Culture; Leadership; Politics; Presidential History

Latest Articles

Whither The Radicals?
Reviews in American History (2023)
Cecily Zander

'Victory's Long Review:' The Grand Review of Union Armies and the Meaning of the Civil War
Civil War History (2020)
Cecily Zander

Books

The Army Under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era
Louisiana State University Press (2024)
Cecily Zander

Chapters

Sour Grapes: Braxton Bragg and the Lessons of the War with Mexico
in Civil War Generals and their Experiences in the Mexican-American War | Louisiana State University Press (2024)
Cecily Zander

One Widow's Wars: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the West in Elizabeth Bacon Custer's Memoirs
in Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works | Louisiana State University Press (2021)
Cecily Zander

Recent Presentations

Roundtable: A Force to Be Reckoned With: The Intertwined Histories of the American Military and the American West
Western History Association Annual Conference (2023)
Round Table | Cecily Zander

Roundtable: Indian Policy as Civil War and Reconstruction Policy,
Society of Civil War Historians (2022)
Round Table | Cecily Zander

Fighting Memory: Contested Remembrances of Race, War, and Freedom in the Post-Civil War U.S. West,
Western History Association Annual Conference (2022)
Paper | Cecily Zander

Never Invited to Join in the Parade: Indian Wars Veterans and Civil War Veterans,
Western History Association Annual Conference (2020)
Paper | Cecily Zander

Agents of Empire: The Army and American Expansion in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Organization of American Historians (2019)
Paper | Cecily Zander

The Great Task Remaining: The Reconstruction Era Army in Texas
Southern Historical Association (2019)
Paper | Cecily Zander

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: Contemplating Reconstruction West of the Mississippi River
Society of Civil War Historians (2018)
Paper | Cecily Zander

The United States and the Sioux During the Civil War
Society for Military History Annual Conference (2017)
Paper | Cecily Zander

Improvised Warfare: The United States, Canada, and the Sioux in a Civil War Borderland
Western History Association Annual Conference (2017)
Paper | Cecily Zande

Professional Affiliations

• Organization of American Historians
• Society of Civil War Historians
• Western History Association