Charles Irons, assistant professor of history, has recently published an essay, “Reluctant Protestant Confederates: The Religious Roots of Conditional Unionism,” in Virginia’s Civil War, edited by Peter Wallenstein and Betram Wyatt-Brown. Irons’ essay, like others in the volume published by the University Press of Virginia, explores new directions in the history of the American Civil War.
The Southern Historical Association also recently accepted one of Irons’ essays for presentation at their 2005 annual meeting, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia. Irons’ paper is entitled “Unequally Yoked: Virginia’s Black Evangelicals and the Development of Proslavery Christianity.” It is one of three papers on the panel, “A House Divided: Southern Evangelicals, Race, and the Sectional Conflict.”