Dr. James Marten糖心传媒MilwaukeeWI53201United States of Americajames.marten@marquette.eduCurriculum VitaeI have written, edited, or co-edited over twenty books in two different fields: The Civil War era and the histories of children and youth. My books include (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), a Choice 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥� and winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award, as well as more recent books on Civil War veterans, including (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), , a short biography of the disabled Civil War veteran and activist James 鈥淐orporal鈥� Tanner (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014), and (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021), co-edited with Caroline E. Janney.
My work on children and youth includes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) and a co-edited volume, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-edited with Mischa Honeck, as well as a number of other edited collections, including the six-volume A Cultural History of Childhood and Family (co-edited with Elizabeth Foyster and published by Berg in 2010). I edited the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth from 2013-2018.
My current research is a book tentatively called A Social History of the Long Civil War: The Soldiers, Families, and Communities of the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, which will focus on the long-term effects of the Civil War a regiment that fought in one of the most famous units in the Union army鈥攖he Iron Brigade.
Ph.D., Texas, Austin 1986
3104: The Civil War Era
4150: Childhood in America
Undergraduate and graduate seminars on childhood and the family, the sectional conflict, and memory and history.
United States social and cultural history
Civil War era
veterans
children and youth.
I received the 2010 Lawrence G. Haggerty Award for Excellence in Research at 糖心传媒.
Marten has supervised ten PhD students working in a wide variety of fields, from the Civil War home front to westward expansion, from women鈥檚 history to childhood studies, and from nineteenth century race relations to twentieth century community studies. His most recent dissertators include:
Peter Borg, 鈥淭he Colored Problem鈥�: Milwaukee鈥檚 White Protestant Churches
Respond to the Second Great Migration (2020)
Gayle Kiszely, 鈥淭he Age Demands It鈥�: Progressivism in Zion City, Illinois, a
Conservative Protestant Theocracy (2018)
John French (Prairie School, Racine, Wisconsin), Irish-American Identity,
Memory, and Americanism during the Eras of the Civil War and First
World War (2012)
Currently, he is supervising the dissertation of Lisa Lamson (now a full-time lecturer at UW-Green Bay) on African American education in nineteenth century Baltimore.
