Rate My Professor Brian Matthew Jordan

Jordan's research specializes in the American Civil War, Union veterans, memory, and veteranhood. His acclaimed monograph Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War (Liveright, 2016) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, received the Governor John Andrew Award, and was named to the list of 200 Best Civil War Books. Other key publications include A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the Union Army (Liveright, 2021), selected as a top bestselling Civil War title and main selection of the Military Book Club; Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (ed. with Jonathan W. White, University of Georgia Press, 2023); The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War (ed. with Chris Mackowski, Savas Beatie, 2022); and The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans (ed. with Evan C. Rothera, LSU Press, 2020). He has published peer-reviewed articles in The Journal of the Civil War Era and Civil War History, and contributed chapters to volumes like The Blackwell Companion to the American Civil War. Jordan has received numerous honors, including the Civil War Trust Field Trip Fund Grant, Phi Alpha Theta Best Chapter Awards, and nominations for SHSU teaching excellence. As Co-Director of the SHSU Civil War Consortium, he organizes conferences, delivers public lectures such as the Reeder Distinguished Lecture, and engages in public history outreach.