April Holm

Associate Professor of History

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  aholm@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  History Department, 310 Bishop Hall

• Phone:

  662-915-6945

Research Interests

April Holm is a historian of the nineteenth century United States with a particular interest in sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Christianity, and the border states.  Her work concerns the intersection of the moral and the political.

She is currently at work on a book about provost marshals and civilians in the occupied border states during the Civil War. This project reveals how civilians and the army created and contested occupation in the border states during the American Civil War. 

Biography

Professor Holm received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2010 and spent a year as at Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School and The New-York Historical Society. She joined the University of Mississippi in 2011. She served as the center's Interim Director from 2020 to 2021, and in 2022, she became the director of the Center for Civil War Research.

Publications

A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era; April E. Holm

Published by Louisiana State University Press in 2017.