Faculty

Christopher Phillips            
Associate Professor
Fields: Nineteenth-century U.S., Civil War
and Reconstruction, U.S. South, African American

Phone:  513-556-5001
Email:  phillicr@email.uc.edu
Office:  315B McMicken

My research interests generally are in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, more specifically, the American South, with particular interest in the border states in the period. My research projects to date have ranged from a study of the military and political events in the border slave state of Missouri through the life of a controversial military commander there; to a social history of the African American community of Baltimore, Maryland, in the early national and antebellum periods; to the ideological development of sectional identity in Missouri through the life and political career of a controversial governor of the state; to the development of proslavery ideology of a Missouri state supreme court justice. My projects generally focus upon slavery, emancipation, war, race, politics, and memory during and after the Civil War era. 

Selected Courses:
The Coming Fury: The Sectional Era
Terrible Swift Sword: The Civil War
Revolution Gone Backward: Reconstruction
The American South to 1865
The American South Since 1865
Race Relations in American History

Selected Publications:
The Union on Trial: The Political Journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883.  Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2005. 

Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West.  Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2000.

Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860.  Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1997.