Expertise

Kristen Epps is an historian of slavery, the sectional conflict, and the Civil War in the West.


Subject Areas:

  • Military History and International Relations
    • Civil War and Reconstruction in 19th Century US
  • Race and Ethnicity
    • Kansas, Civil War, slavery and abolition
  • Social and Cultural History
    • Antebellum America, Kansas, Civil War era
  • Modern/Recent History
    • US slavery, Civil War in the West

Keywords: Antebellum U.S., Kansas, slavery and abolition, Civil War and Reconstruction

Geographical Area: U.S.

Degrees
PhD, University of Kansas, American History, 2010
MA, College of William and Mary, American History, 2005
BA, William Jewell College, Oxbridge, 2003