Nau Center Staff

Caroline E. Janney is Director of the Nau Civil War Center and John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War. A native of the Shenandoah Valley, she is the author or editor of six books, including Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox (UNC Press, 2021), Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield Fund for Southern History and University of North Carolina Press, 2013), Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), and Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). 

Brian C. Neumann is the project manager and primary researcher for the Letters Home project. He serves as Managing Director and Digital Historian of the Nau Civil War Center. He received his PhD from UVA in 2020, and he served as an editorial assistant on the Nau Center's Black Virginians in Blue and UVA Unionists projects. His first book, Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis, was published by LSU Press in 2022.