Stephen Rockenbach

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Education

• Ph.D., History, University of Cincinnati, 2005
• M.A., History, University of Cincinnati, 2000
• B.A., History, Indiana University Southeast, 1997
• A.A., Music, Rogers State College, 1991

Research Interest

• American Civil War in the border regions, guerrillas, community studies, historical memory, slavery and emancipation

Representative Scholarly Activity

• “‘A Brotherhood of Traitors and Felons’: Home Rebels, Amnesty, and Anti-Guerrilla Operations in Kentucky in 1864,” in The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, Spring 2017)
• War Upon Our Border: Two Ohio Valley Communities navigate the Civil War (University of Virginia Press, Nov. 2016).
• “’The Weeds and the Flowers are Closely Mixed’: Allegiance, Law, and White Supremacy in Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region, 1861-1865,” Kentucky Register of History, August 2013.
• “’This Just Hope of Ultimate Payment’: The Indiana Morgan’s
• Raid Claims Commission in Harrison County, Indiana, 1863-1887,” Indiana Magazine of History, March 2013.
• “Reconstruction” in John E. Findling and Frank W. Thackeray, eds., What Happened? An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever (ABC CLIO, 2010).
• Seven Essays: “Emancipation Proclamation,” “Class Tensions,” “Men on the Homefront,” “War Music,” “Northern Copperheads, ”Biased Newspaper Reporting,” and “The Reconciliation Movement” in Gale Library of Daily Life: American Civil War (Gale Cengage, 2008).
• “A Border City at War: Louisville and the 1862 Confederate Invasion of Kentucky,” Ohio Valley History, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter 2003, 35-52.