Caroline Newhall, Ph.D.
Caroline Newhall, Ph.D.
Dr. Caroline Wood Newhall is an Assistant Professor at Oberlin College where she teaches 19th-century United States history, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction. Her research focuses on North American slavery, captivity, and warfare. Her publications include a chapter in Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History with the University of Alabama Press and a chapter on gender and Reconstruction for Oxford University Press's forthcoming Reconstruction Handbook. Her talks have been featured on C-SPAN and YouTube. Her first book project, under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, explores African American soldiers who became prisoners of war (POWs) in the Confederacy, as well as a digital database and mapping project centered on these POWs’ movements throughout the American South and their genealogies.