Professor Brown is the author of Dorothea Dix, New England Reformer (Harvard, 1998), the co-editor of Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (University of Massachusetts, 2001), and the editor of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/Saint Martin's, 2004).

Current Activities

My long-term project is a book tentatively entitled The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War. At the moment I am completing the editing work on a collaborative set of historiographical essays, Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2006.