Dr. Virginia Laas

Virginia J. Laas, Ph.D.
University of Arkansas

                                
Office: WH-244

Phone:  (417) 625.9793

Email Dr. Laas

On Leave: Participating in the Missouri- London Program, Spring 2008

Teaching and Research interests:

Books Dr. Laas has authored:

Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair

Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
         

Bridging Two Eras: The Autobiography of Emily Newell Blair
         

Lincoln’s Lee: The Life of Samuel Phillips Lee (with Dudley Cornish)

Current Projects:

a biography of Emily Newell Blair, Missouri Feminist and Politician

The Civil War in Southwest Missouri

Courses that Dr. Laas teaches:

Women and U.S. History

Civil War and Reconstruction

Jefferson and Jackson

History of Missouri

Links: 

State Historical Society of Missouri

Organization of American Historians

Southern Historical Association