Professor Sarah Purcell is the L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College and previously taught at Central Michigan University. She is author of Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, and E_yewitness History: The Early American Republic_. She is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517-1915 (which won a 2000 Best of Reference award from the New York Public Library) and C_ritical Lives: The Life and Work of Eleanor Roosevelt_. She recently released a new book, S_pectacle of Grief: The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War_.
Professor Sarah Purcell is the L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College and previously taught at Central Michigan University. She is author of Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, and E_yewitness History: The Early American Republic_. She is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517-1915 (which won a 2000 Best of Reference award from the New York Public Library) and C_ritical Lives: The Life and Work of Eleanor Roosevelt_. She recently released a new book, S_pectacle of Grief: The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War_.
