Kevin M. Levin
Instructor of History
St. Anne’s - Belfield School
2132 Ivy Road
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
Phone: (434) 296-2430, ext. 1282
Email: kevlvn@aol.com or klevin@stab.org
Education
University of Richmond, M. A. History, 2005, Thesis: "The Battle of the Crater, William Mahone, and Civil War Memory, 1864-1937," Advisor, Prof. Robert C. Kenzer
University of Maryland at College Park, M. A. Philosophy, 1994, Thesis: "Explanatory Competition in Historical Studies: The Controversy Over the American Revolution," Advisor, Prof. Raymond Martin.
William Paterson College of New Jersey, B.A. 1992, History and Philosophy.
Academic Positions
Instructor of History, St. Anne's - Belfield School, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2000-Present.
Instructor of Philosophy, Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, Mobile, Alabama, 1998-2000.
Instructor of Philosophy (adjunct), Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, 1999-2000.
Instructor of Philosophy (adjunct), Prince Georges Community College, Largo, Maryland, 1998.
Instructor of Philosophy and History (adjunct), University of Maryland/University College, College Park, Maryland,1993-1995.
Books (in-progress and under review)
The Battle of the Crater, William Mahone, and Civil War Memory (tentative title and currently under revision)
John C. Winsmith's Civil War: Collected Letters, 1859-1864, (in preparation with plans to submit to publisher by Fall 2008)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’: The Demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia,” in William C. Davis and James I. Robertson eds., Virginia at War, 1865, (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press), forthcoming in 2010.
"'I Understand Our Men Just Chopped Them To Pieces': Remembering United States Colored Troops at the Crater," in Gary W. Gallagher ed., The Petersburg Campaign, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), forthcoming in 2009.
"'Is There Not Glory Enough To Give Us All a Share?': An Analysis of Competing Memories of the Battle of the Crater," in Aaron Sheehan-Dean ed., The View From The Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 227-248.
"The Battle of the Crater, National Reunion, and the Creation of the Petersburg National Military Park, 1864-1937," in Virginia Social Science Journal 41 (2006): 13-34.
"William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History," in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 113 (2005): 379-412. Winner of the M. E. Rachal Prize for best overall article in 2005.
"'On That Day You Consummated the Full Measure of Your Fame:' Confederates Remember the Battle of the Crater, 1864-1903," in Southern Historian 25 (2004): 18-39.
"'Our Little Boy Colonel': An Account of the Life of John Bowie Magruder," in Magazine of Albemarle County History 60 (2002): 1-46. Winner of the Mary N. Rawlings Prize for best article in 2002.
Other Publications
"John C. Winsmith Letter, May 14, 1864," Eyewitness of the Civil War, America's Civil War, (September 2006): 11-14.
"Why the Civil War Still Matters," in History News Network, Week of April 3, 2006.
"'The Earth Seemed to Tremble': Confederate Reactions to the Battle of the Crater," in America's Civil War (May 2006): 22-28.
"Using North and South Magazine in the Classroom," in OAH Magazine of History (May 2005): 54-57.
"Davis Used Creative Tact at Court Martial," in Washington Times, February 6, 1999, B3.
"Sharpsburg Residents Endured Horrors of War," in Washington Times, September 13, 1997, B3.
Encyclopedia Articles
"Robert A. Paul," African-American National Biography, eds. Henry L. Gates and Evelyn Higginbotham, (Oxford University Press, 2008).
"Kansasa-Nebraska Act," The World of Frederick Douglass, vol. 2, eds, Diane Barnes and Paul Finkelman, (Oxford University Press, 2006).
"Peter Osterhaus," Alexander Shimmelfennig," and "Alexander Osboth," Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History ed. Thomas North, (ABC-Clio publishers, 2006).
"United States Colored Troops," Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Trans-Atlantic World, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez, (M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2005).
"Alabama," "Freeport Doctrine," "Fortress Monroe," and "Battle of Mobile Bay," Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, 5 vols, eds., Jeanne and David Heidler, (ABC-Clio Publishers, 2000).
Recent Book Reviews
Alex C. Meekins, Elizabeth City, North Carolina and the Civil War: A History of Battle and Occupation (The History Press, 2007) in North Carolina Historical Review (forthcoming).
Russell A. McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision For War: The Northern Response to Secession (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) in Louisiana History (forthcoming).
A. Wilson Greene's Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (University of Virginia Press, 2007) in Civil War History (forthcoming).
Alan Axelrod, The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest Mission (Carroll and Graff, 2007) in Journal of Southern History (forthcoming).
Drew G. Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Knopf, 2008) in American History (June 2008): 67.
Review of Eric H. Walther, William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) in Louisiana History (Winter 2008): 103-04.
Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Knopf, 2006) in Ambrose Bierce Journal (Fall 2007).
Robert K. Krick, Civil War Weather in Virginia (University of Alabama Press, 2007) in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2007): 590-91.
Leslie Gordon and John Inscoe, eds., Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays In Honor Of Emory M. Thomas (Louisiana State University Press, 2005) in Civil War Book Review (Winter, 2006).
Over 50 reviews in: American Nineteenth-Century History, Civil War Book Review, Civil War History, Civil War Times Illustrated, Florida Historical Quarterly, Georgia Historical Quarterly, H-Net, Journal of Southern History, Louisiana History, North and South Magazine, North Carolina Historical Review, Northwest Ohio Quarterly, Pennsylvania History, South Carolina Historical Magazine, Southern Historian, Washington Times.
Awards and Honors
2008 - Golden Apple Teaching Award, Better Living Inc.
2007 - Cliopatria Award for Best Individual Blog
2005 - M. E. Rachal Award, Virginia Historical Society
2005 - Russell Weigley Award, Society for Military History
2004 - Award for best paper at regional meeting, Phi Alpha Theta, Virginia Regional Meeting
2004 - Award for best paper at annual meeting, Virginia Social Science Association
2003 - Yearbook dedication award, St. Anne's - Belfield School
2002 - Mary N. Rawlings Prize, Albemarle County Historical Society
Recent or Upcoming Professional Presentations
“Teaching Ken Burns in the Classroom,”
Society for Civil War Historians Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2008.
"Blogging the American Civil War,"
University of Virginia Continuing Studies Program sponsored conference on "Lee at 200" October 31, 2007.
"The Battle of the Crater, William Mahone, and Civil War Memory,"
Conference on Civil War Memory, Shepherd University, June 2007.
Moderator for panel on Nineteenth-Century America
Annual meeting of the Virginia Social Science Association, University of Richmond, March 2007.
"Soldiers, Citizens, and Soldiers: The Uses of Civil War Soldiers in Writing U.S. History," (Roundtable) \
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007.
"Why the Civil War Still Matters,"
St. Anne's - Belfield School in conjunction with the Virginia Festival of the Book, March 2006.
"Landscapes and the Lost Cause: An Analysis of the 1903 and 1937 Crater Reenactments,"
The Virginia Forum, Winchester, Virginia, March 2006
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, January 2006.
"'I Understand Our Men Just Chopped Them To Pieces": Confederates Remember U. S. Colored Troops at the Crater,"
Conference on African Americans in the Civil War, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, May 2005
Annual Meeting of the Virginia Social Science Association, University of Richmond, March 2005.
"'It Was a Sad Sight and One That Deeply Impressed Me': An Analysis of Confederate Military Executions,"
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, April 2004
Annual Meeting of the Virginia Social Science Association, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, March 2004.
"William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History,"
Annual Meeting of the Society of Military Historians, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, February 2004
"Douglas Southall Freeman's Interpretation of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia,"
The Douglas S. Freeman History Conference, University of Richmond, February 2002.
"The Logic of Historical Explanation or Why There Are No Turning Points in History,"
Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians, Georgia State University, Albany, April 2000.
"Was Gettysburg the Turning Point of the Civil War?"
History Day at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, April 1999.
Civil War Roundtable Talks
Rockbridge County CWRT, Richmond CWRT, Charlottesville CWRT, Alexandria CWRT, Charlottesville CWRT, Phil Kearny CWRT (NJ), Eastern Loudoun County CWRT, Fauquier Country CWRT, Bucks Country CWRT (PA), Rappahannock Valley CWRT, Blue Ridge CWRT.
Professional Activities
Editorial Advisory Board, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (2008-10)
Advisory Council for the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, (2007-).
Consultant for Monticello exhibit, "The Liberty Gallery" (2006-07).
Virginia Social Science Association, Board of Directors (2004-2007), Secretary (2005-06).
Manuscript Reviewer: Virginia Social Science Journal, Magazine of Albemarle County History, Louisiana History, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
Professional Affiliation
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association
