Stephen V. Ash

Professor Emeritus

Education

Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1983

Awards and Recognitions

• University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professorship in Humanities for 2008-2010
• University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Lindsay Young Professorship for 2002-2007
• UT Alexander Prize for Distinguished Research and Teaching, 2005
• UT Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Achievement, 2004
• University of Tennessee National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 1999

Selected Publications

• A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year after the Civil War (Hill & Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013)
• The Black Experience in the Civil War South (Praeger, 2010)
• Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War (W. W. Norton, 2008)
• A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History (HarperCollins, 2004)
• [with Paul H. Bergeron and Jeanette Keith], Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999)
• Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999)
• When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995; paperback edition, 1999)
• Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870: War and Peace in the Upper South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988)