Jonathan Lande

Jonathan Lande earned a Ph.D. from Brown University in 2018 and is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University. He is the author of Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons (Oxford University Press, 2024) and the forthcoming Valiant Men of War: Black Soldiers’ Fight for Family, Honor, and Nation in the Civil War South (Yale University Press, 2026). He has contributed seven peer-reviewed articles to the Journal of American History, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Journal of Southern History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Social History, Journal of African American History, and Civil War History. He has also written for The Washington Post and Time Magazine and appeared on C-SPAN.