Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker
Associate Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
DeBartolo Hall 537
phone: (330) 941-1602
Research Interests
Nineteenth Century U.S. History, the American Civil War, Civil War Memory
Teaching Interests
U.S. History to 1877, American Civil War, Women's History, History of Ohio and the Midwest, History of Warfare and Society
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Education
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2015
Ph D, US History
University of Mississippi
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2010
MA, US History
University of Mississippi
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2008
BA, US History
Westminster College
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Awards and Honors
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July 2023
National Endowment for the Humanities
Visiting Research Scholar
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May 2022
Youngstown State University
Distinguished Professor: Scholarship
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2021
Youngstown State University
Faculty Improvement Leave
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2020
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship
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2019
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship
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2017
University of Mississippi
FedEx Student-Athlete Success Center “Guest Coach”
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2014
State Historical Society of Missouri
Lynn and Kristen Morrow Missouri History Student Prize
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2013
Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration
William Winter Scholar
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2013
University of Mississippi
Graduate Achievement Award in History
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2010
University of Mississippi
Tennin-Alexander Prize
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2008
Westminster College
Remmel Prize
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2008
Phi Alpha Theta
Best Undergraduate Paper
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2008
Alpha Chi
Alpha Chi Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship
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2008
Phi Alpha Theta
A. F. Zimmerman Scholarship
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2007
Phi Alpha Theta
Best Undergraduate Paper
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Intellectual Contributions
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2023
"“A Ghost Among Regions:” Considering a Spectral History of the Midwest"
Middle West Review
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2022
"Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era, by Sarah J. Purcell"
The Annals of Iowa
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2022
"History, Memory and Why it Matters"
The Business Journal Daily
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2021
"Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War, by Stephanie McCurry"
The English Historical Review
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2021
"Finding a New Midwestern History, by Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, and Joseph Hogan, eds."
Ohio History
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2020
"“We Have Drank from the Same Canteen: Veteran Company A, the Civil War, and Reconciliation in Kansas City"
University of Missouri Press
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2020
"Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri"
University of Missouri Press, p. 282
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2020
"“The Recuperative Powers of Missouri: Reconciliation in a Border State"
Missouri Historical Review, volume 114, issue 3
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2020
"Union, Loyalty, and Patriotic Sacrifice in the Civil War North"
The New England Quarterly, volume 91, issue 3
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2020
"False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory, by Adam H. Domby"
The Civil War Monitor
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2020
"Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century, by Nicole Maurantonio"
The Journal of Southern History
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2020
"Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America, by Thomas J. Brown"
Missouri Historical Review
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2020
"A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World’s Fairs, by Nathan Cardon"
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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2019
"This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America, by Nina Silber"
The Civil War Monitor
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2019
"Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth Century Americans Imagined the Future, by Jason Phillips"
History: Reviews of New Books
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2019
"From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, by Jon K. Lauck"
Western Historical Quarterly
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2019
"A Union Indivisible: Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South, by Michael D. Robinson"
The Journal of American History
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2017
"Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War; for Better and for Worse, by Candice Shy Hooper"
Civil War History
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2015
"“Civilian Death” and “Photography”"
ABC-CLIO, LLC
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2013
"“The Grandest Charity in the Country: The Missouri Home for Confederate Veterans"
The Civil War Monitor
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Professional Service
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Unknown
Reviewer, Journal Article
Ohio History -
Unknown
Session Chair
YSU-Purdue Symposium
Youngstown, OH -
Unknown
Session Chair
Ohio Academy of History
Akron, OH -
Unknown
Reviewer, Book
University of Oklahoma Press -
Unknown
Committee Chair
Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History -
2022 - 2023
Reviewer, Journal Article
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era -
Unknown
Reviewer, Journal Article
Ohio History -
Unknown
Committee Chair
Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History -
Unknown
Reviewer, Book
Kent State University Press -
Unknown
Reviewer, Journal Article
Indiana Magazine of History -
Unknown
Reviewer, Journal Article
Burkhardt Review, Ball State University -
Unknown
Reviewer, Journal Article
Ohio History -
2019 - 2019
Attendee, Meeting
Southern Historical Association
Louisville, KY -
Unknown
Attendee, Meeting
Civil War Study Group
Indianapolis, IN -
Unknown
Session Chair
The Society for Military History
Columbus, OH -
Unknown
Session Chair
Ohio Academy of History
Middletown, OH -
2019 - 2020
Committee Chair
Program Committee, Civil War Study Group -
2019 - 2022
Committee Member
Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History -
Unknown
Attendee, Meeting
Civil War Study Group
Ypsilanti, MI -
Unknown
Reviewer, Textbook
W. W. Norton & Company -
2018 - 2021
Committee Member
Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History -
2018 - 2022
Committee Chair
Writing Group
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Public Service
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Unknown
Guest Speaker
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
St. Louis, MO -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
Missouri State Museum
Jefferson City, MO -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
Sutliff Museum
Warren, OH -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
Sutliff Museum
Warren, OH -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
Missouri State Museum
Jefferson Citu, MO -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
McKinley Memorial Museum
Niles, OH -
2021 - present
Organizer
Oakwood Cemetery Digitization Project
Warren, OH -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
Warrensburg Public Library
Warrensburg, MO -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
Park Vista Retirement Community
Youngstown, OH -
Unknown
Guest Speaker
Cuyahoga Valley Civil War Roundtable
Peninsula, OH -
2019 - 2020
Committee Member
Northeast Ohio Suffrage Centennial Planning Committee
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