Charles R. Welsko
Education
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2019
M.A., West Virginia University, 2014
B.A., Moravian College, 2011, Summa cum laude with Honors in History
Employment
December 2019- Present: Project Director, Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Kentucky Historical Society
May 2019-December 2019: Project Manager, Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Kentucky Historical Society
August 2018-May 2019: Limited Term Assistant Professor of History and Director, University History Project, University of West Georgia
August 2012-May2018: Graduate Instructor, Graduate Teaching Assistant, and Graduate Research Assistant, West Virginia University
Publications
““Like a Dark Cloud”: Loyalty, Virtue, and the Civil War in Western Virginia,” West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2016, 45-68.
Book Reviews:
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2019 Report: Arrivals and Departures: Unionists, Confederates.
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2019 Report: Occupiers in the Deep South During the Civil War.
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2018 Report: Memories and Commemorations of Abolition in the Post-Emancipation Era, November 2018.
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2018 Report: Emancipationist Memory and Radical Dreams of Freedom: New Directions in African American History of the Reconstruction Era, November 2018.
Review of The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg and Scott L. Mingus, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 125, Number 1, 74-5.
Review of Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln. Jonathan W. White, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 141, Number 1, January 2017, 98-9.
Review of For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War. By Patrick A. Lewis. and More American than Southern: Kentucky, Slavery, and the War for an American Ideology, 1828-1861. By Daniel R. Matthews, in West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2015, 106-9.
Conference Presentations:
Panelist, “The Impact of Policy: Nineteenth-Century Governors’ Papers & the Experience of Civil War, Emancipation, and Occupation,” The Society of Military Historians, Arlington, Virginia, April 30-May 3, 2020. (canceled due to the COVID-19).
Presenter, Loyalty on the Border: Mapping the Boundaries Between Yankeedom and Dixie in West Virginia, 1861-1864, West Virginia Association of Museums 2019 Annual Conference, Kingwood, West Virginia, March 27-29, 2019.
Presenter and Panel organizer, Mapping Yankeedom and Dixie: The Cultural Cartographers of Loyalty in the Wartime Mid-Atlantic, Society of Civil War Historians Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 31-June 2, 2018.
Presenter, Breaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Maryland, the Mid-Atlantic, and Loyalty in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Brown Bag Lunch Talk, May 15, 2018.
Presenter, Breaking Mason and Dixon’s Line: The Mapping of Loyalty in the Civil War Mid-Atlantic, WVU History Graduate Student Association Mini-Conference, April 2018.
Presenter, The Cultural Cartography of Yankeedom and Dixie: Mapping Loyalty in the Civil War Mid-Atlantic, 1861-1865, 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, William & Mary University, March 16-17, 2018.
Panelist, Raising the Buried Voices: Nineteenth-Century African-Americans and Digital Archives, “Digitization, Representation & Access Roundtable,” Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2017.
Presenter, The Snakes of Loyalty: Copperheads, Blacksnakes, and a Crisis of Democracy in Eastern Pennsylvania, 2015 Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference, October 8-10, 2015.
Presenter, Copperheads and Black Republicans: The Twin Snakes of Loyalty in Eastern Pennsylvania, 7th Conference on the Civil War, “This Terrible War”, University of Mississippi, Center for Civil War Research, October 3-5, 2013.
Presenter, A Different Shade of Blue: The Draft, Volunteerism, and the Men of Northampton County in September 1862, 16th Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, April 5-6, 2013.
Presenter, Hesitant Warriors: The 1862 Volunteers of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 2011 Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference, October 13-15, 2011.
Presenter, We Have Come Father Abraham ‘In Lieu of a Draft’: The 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment Enlists for War, The National Conference on Undergraduate Research, March 30-April 2, 2011.
Presenter, George Whitefield and the Moravians: An Examination of their Relationship, The Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 14, 2010.
Invited Presentations/Panels:
Breaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Maryland, the Mid-Atlantic, and Loyalty in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Brown Bag Lunch Talk, May 15, 2018.
Bethlehem’s Civil War, Panelist, April 15, 2012.
The Union Blue in ’62: Volunteers, the Draft, and ‘Northampton’s Own’ in the Summer of 1862, Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, July 9, 2011.
‘Northampton’s Own’: A Brief History of Northampton’s 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Moravian Historical Society Lecture at Lunch, June 7, 2011
“Obviate a Draft!”: Why the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment Volunteered, Moravian College Scholar’s Day, April 19, 2011
Virtual Programs/Interviews/Presentations
Interview, "The Civil War Governors of Kentucky with Dr. Charles R. Welsko," for The Civil War Era & Digital Humanities Interview Series," H-CivWar, October 20, 2020.
Virtual Tour, "Bourbon and the CWGK," for the Kentucky Historical Society, September 15, 2020.
Virtual Tour, "The Wadlington Murder?" for the Kentucky Historical Society, June 30, 2020.
Virtual Tour, "Kentucky in the Civil War," for the Kentucky Historical Society, May 21, 2020.
Institutional Grants
Author, National Historic Publications and Records Commission, 2021 Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions Grant for the Kentucky Historical Society’s Civil War Governors of Kentucky, Digital Documentary Edition (Pending Notification)
Co-Author with Patrick Lewis, National Historic Publications and Records Commission, 2020 Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions Grant for the Kentucky Historical Society’s Civil War Governors of Kentucky, Digital Documentary Edition, Awarded December 2019 (Awarded: $98,8000).
Personal Fellowships and Awards:
Nau Center Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2020.
Bibliographical Society of American Scholarship Award, Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, October 2017.
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Research Award, West Virginia University, Summer.
West Virginia University History Department Doctoral Research Grant, West Virginia University, Summer 2017.
Lord Baltimore Fellowship, 2017, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland.
2017 Vernon Nelson Research Grant, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
2017 Ridgway Family Endowment Research Grant, Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, June 20-24, 2016.
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Research Award, West Virginia University, Summer 2016.
West Virginia University History Department Research Mini-Grant, West Virginia University, Summer 2016.
The William D. Barns Award in West Virginia or Regional History, West Virginia University, 2015-2016 Academic Year, April 2016.
Robert and Wynona Wilkins Scholarship Award, Outstanding MA History Student, West Virginia University, 2013-2014 Academic Year, April 2014.
Teaching Experience/Courses Taught
Introduction to U.S. History to 1877 (West Virginia University and University of West Georgia)
Introduction to U.S. History from 1865 (West Virginia University)
Modern Military History (West Virginia University)
History and Hollywood, Civil War Era focus (West Virginia University)
Introduction to Public History (University of West Georgia)
Public History Seminar, Graduate Class (University of West Georgia)
Public History Internship (University of West Georgia)
Public History Experience
Director, University History Project, Center for Public History, University of West Georgia, 2018-2019.
Remembering Lincoln, Undergraduate Mentor, West Virginia University, HIST: 393D, Digital History, Spring 2018.
Remembering Lincoln Digital History Project, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington D.C., Summer 2015.
Cooper’s Rock State Forest Cultural Resource Management Project, West Virginia University, Spring 2015.
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, West Virginia University Summer Intern, Summer 2014.
Moravian Historical Society, Docent, 2006-August 2012.
Northampton County Historical and Geological Society, Member Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibit Committee, December 2010-June 2011.
Organizations and Affiliations:
American Historical Association
Society of Civil War Historians
National Council on Public History
Southern Historical Association
Society of Military Historians
Education
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2019
M.A., West Virginia University, 2014
B.A., Moravian College, 2011, Summa cum laude with Honors in History
Employment
December 2019- Present: Project Director, Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Kentucky Historical Society
May 2019-December 2019: Project Manager, Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Kentucky Historical Society
August 2018-May 2019: Limited Term Assistant Professor of History and Director, University History Project, University of West Georgia
August 2012-May2018: Graduate Instructor, Graduate Teaching Assistant, and Graduate Research Assistant, West Virginia University
Publications
““Like a Dark Cloud”: Loyalty, Virtue, and the Civil War in Western Virginia,” West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2016, 45-68.
Book Reviews:
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2019 Report: Arrivals and Departures: Unionists, Confederates.
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2019 Report: Occupiers in the Deep South During the Civil War.
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2018 Report: Memories and Commemorations of Abolition in the Post-Emancipation Era, November 2018.
Review for H-Civil War, SHA 2018 Report: Emancipationist Memory and Radical Dreams of Freedom: New Directions in African American History of the Reconstruction Era, November 2018.
Review of The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg and Scott L. Mingus, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 125, Number 1, 74-5.
Review of Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln. Jonathan W. White, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 141, Number 1, January 2017, 98-9.
Review of For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War. By Patrick A. Lewis. and More American than Southern: Kentucky, Slavery, and the War for an American Ideology, 1828-1861. By Daniel R. Matthews, in West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2015, 106-9.
Conference Presentations:
Panelist, “The Impact of Policy: Nineteenth-Century Governors’ Papers & the Experience of Civil War, Emancipation, and Occupation,” The Society of Military Historians, Arlington, Virginia, April 30-May 3, 2020. (canceled due to the COVID-19).
Presenter, Loyalty on the Border: Mapping the Boundaries Between Yankeedom and Dixie in West Virginia, 1861-1864, West Virginia Association of Museums 2019 Annual Conference, Kingwood, West Virginia, March 27-29, 2019.
Presenter and Panel organizer, Mapping Yankeedom and Dixie: The Cultural Cartographers of Loyalty in the Wartime Mid-Atlantic, Society of Civil War Historians Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 31-June 2, 2018.
Presenter, Breaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Maryland, the Mid-Atlantic, and Loyalty in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Brown Bag Lunch Talk, May 15, 2018.
Presenter, Breaking Mason and Dixon’s Line: The Mapping of Loyalty in the Civil War Mid-Atlantic, WVU History Graduate Student Association Mini-Conference, April 2018.
Presenter, The Cultural Cartography of Yankeedom and Dixie: Mapping Loyalty in the Civil War Mid-Atlantic, 1861-1865, 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, William & Mary University, March 16-17, 2018.
Panelist, Raising the Buried Voices: Nineteenth-Century African-Americans and Digital Archives, “Digitization, Representation & Access Roundtable,” Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2017.
Presenter, The Snakes of Loyalty: Copperheads, Blacksnakes, and a Crisis of Democracy in Eastern Pennsylvania, 2015 Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference, October 8-10, 2015.
Presenter, Copperheads and Black Republicans: The Twin Snakes of Loyalty in Eastern Pennsylvania, 7th Conference on the Civil War, “This Terrible War”, University of Mississippi, Center for Civil War Research, October 3-5, 2013.
Presenter, A Different Shade of Blue: The Draft, Volunteerism, and the Men of Northampton County in September 1862, 16th Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, April 5-6, 2013.
Presenter, Hesitant Warriors: The 1862 Volunteers of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 2011 Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference, October 13-15, 2011.
Presenter, We Have Come Father Abraham ‘In Lieu of a Draft’: The 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment Enlists for War, The National Conference on Undergraduate Research, March 30-April 2, 2011.
Presenter, George Whitefield and the Moravians: An Examination of their Relationship, The Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 14, 2010.
Invited Presentations/Panels:
Breaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Maryland, the Mid-Atlantic, and Loyalty in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Brown Bag Lunch Talk, May 15, 2018.
Bethlehem’s Civil War, Panelist, April 15, 2012.
The Union Blue in ’62: Volunteers, the Draft, and ‘Northampton’s Own’ in the Summer of 1862, Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, July 9, 2011.
‘Northampton’s Own’: A Brief History of Northampton’s 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Moravian Historical Society Lecture at Lunch, June 7, 2011
“Obviate a Draft!”: Why the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment Volunteered, Moravian College Scholar’s Day, April 19, 2011
Virtual Programs/Interviews/Presentations
Interview, "The Civil War Governors of Kentucky with Dr. Charles R. Welsko," for The Civil War Era & Digital Humanities Interview Series," H-CivWar, October 20, 2020.
Virtual Tour, "Bourbon and the CWGK," for the Kentucky Historical Society, September 15, 2020.
Virtual Tour, "The Wadlington Murder?" for the Kentucky Historical Society, June 30, 2020.
Virtual Tour, "Kentucky in the Civil War," for the Kentucky Historical Society, May 21, 2020.
Institutional Grants
Author, National Historic Publications and Records Commission, 2021 Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions Grant for the Kentucky Historical Society’s Civil War Governors of Kentucky, Digital Documentary Edition (Pending Notification)
Co-Author with Patrick Lewis, National Historic Publications and Records Commission, 2020 Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions Grant for the Kentucky Historical Society’s Civil War Governors of Kentucky, Digital Documentary Edition, Awarded December 2019 (Awarded: $98,8000).
Personal Fellowships and Awards:
Nau Center Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2020.
Bibliographical Society of American Scholarship Award, Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, October 2017.
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Research Award, West Virginia University, Summer.
West Virginia University History Department Doctoral Research Grant, West Virginia University, Summer 2017.
Lord Baltimore Fellowship, 2017, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland.
2017 Vernon Nelson Research Grant, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
2017 Ridgway Family Endowment Research Grant, Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, June 20-24, 2016.
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Research Award, West Virginia University, Summer 2016.
West Virginia University History Department Research Mini-Grant, West Virginia University, Summer 2016.
The William D. Barns Award in West Virginia or Regional History, West Virginia University, 2015-2016 Academic Year, April 2016.
Robert and Wynona Wilkins Scholarship Award, Outstanding MA History Student, West Virginia University, 2013-2014 Academic Year, April 2014.
Teaching Experience/Courses Taught
Introduction to U.S. History to 1877 (West Virginia University and University of West Georgia)
Introduction to U.S. History from 1865 (West Virginia University)
Modern Military History (West Virginia University)
History and Hollywood, Civil War Era focus (West Virginia University)
Introduction to Public History (University of West Georgia)
Public History Seminar, Graduate Class (University of West Georgia)
Public History Internship (University of West Georgia)
Public History Experience
Director, University History Project, Center for Public History, University of West Georgia, 2018-2019.
Remembering Lincoln, Undergraduate Mentor, West Virginia University, HIST: 393D, Digital History, Spring 2018.
Remembering Lincoln Digital History Project, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington D.C., Summer 2015.
Cooper’s Rock State Forest Cultural Resource Management Project, West Virginia University, Spring 2015.
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, West Virginia University Summer Intern, Summer 2014.
Moravian Historical Society, Docent, 2006-August 2012.
Northampton County Historical and Geological Society, Member Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibit Committee, December 2010-June 2011.
Organizations and Affiliations:
American Historical Association
Society of Civil War Historians
National Council on Public History
Southern Historical Association
Society of Military Historians