William Shea

Professor of History
School of Social Sciences
University of Arkansas at Monticello
PO Box 3619, UAM
Monticello, AR 71656
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Email
Office: MCB 227
870.460.1547
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Teaching Interests:

• American History

Fields of Study:

• Military History

Education Background:

• Ph.D., Rice University
• B.A., Louisiana State University

Awards:

• Fletcher Pratt Award, New York Civil War Round Table, for best book on the Civil War (2010)
• J. G. Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association, for best book on Arkansas History (2010)

Books:

• Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
• Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide With a Section on Wire Road (University of Nebraska press, 2006)
• Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
• Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West (University of North Carolina Press, 1992)
• The Virginia Militia in the Seventeenth Century (Louisiana State University Press, 1983)