DAVID K. THOMSON
HC-212C
History Department
Sacred Heart University
5151 Park Avenue
Fairfield, CT 06825
thomsond@sacredheart.edu
bondsofwar.com
Education
2016

University of Georgia
Ph.D., History
Committee: Stephen Berry (chair), Stephen Mihm, Julia Ott,and Daniel Rood

2008

Bowdoin College
Bachelor of Arts, History with Honors

Academic Employment
2016- present

Assistant Professor of History, Sacred Heart University

Publications
Edited Volumes“We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die:” The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General
Charles Henry Howard (University of Tennessee Press, 2013.)“‘Blessed Boyhood:’ The ‘Early Memoir’ of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Bowdoin CollegePress, 2013.) Co-edited with Tom A. Desjardins.
Articles and Book Chapters“Financing the War,” in Aaron Sheehan-Dean ed., The Cambridge History of theAmerican Civil War 3 vols. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2018).
“‘Like a Cord Through the Whole Country’: Union Bonds and Financial
Mobilization for Victory,” The Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 6, no. 3(September 2016): 347-75.
“Oliver Otis Howard: Reassessing the Legacy of the ‘Christian General.’” American
Nineteenth Century History Vol. 10, no. 3 (September 2009): 273-98.

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Book Reviews
Reviews for The Alabama Review, Civil War History (2), Civil War Monitor (2),Enterprise & Society, H-CivWar, North Carolina Historical Review (2), The Southern
Quarterly, and Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
Popular Pieces“The Rothschild Houses and American Civil War Debt,” Rothschild Annual Review(Summer 2017), forthcoming.
“The Election of 1860 and Secession,” The American Yawp (Spring 2014).
“Lehman Brothers Goes to War,” Disunion Blog, New York Times (September 2013).
“Why the Belmont is Named for a Rothschild Banking Agent,” Echoes: Dispatchesfrom Economic History, Bloomberg (June 2013).
“Bowdoin’s Other Civil War Sons,” Civil War Monitor (August 2012).
“Oliver Otis Howard,” The Essential Civil War Curriculum, William C. Davis and James
I. Robertson, editors, (August 2012).
Conference Presentations“The Haute Banque, American Civil War Debt, and the Global Integration of 19thCentury Capital Markets,” The European Association for Banking and Financial
History Conference, “Legacy of Finance: The Legacy of the Haute-Banque in theWorld, from the 19th to the 21st Century,” Paris, France, June 2017, forthcoming.
“The French Connection?: American Civil War Debt, Transatlantic Ties, and Global
Capital Markets,” 2017 Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Denver,Colorado, April 2017, forthcoming.
“‘Removing Prejudices and Solidifying the Nation’: Union Bond Sales in theConfederacy,” 2016 Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, St.
Petersburg Beach, Florida, November 2016.
“Internationalizing the American Civil War: The German and Dutch Impact on Union
Bond Sales, 1862-1865,” 2015 Business History Conference and European
Business History Association Joint Meeting, Miami, Florida, June 2015.
“The Bonds of Empire,” Roundtable on Emotional History in the Civil War Era(roundtable organizer), Society of Civil War Historians Fourth Biennial Meeting,Baltimore, Maryland, June 2014.

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“A Man without Faith, Party, or Country (but not without means): August Belmont andthe Politics of Capital Citizenship in the Civil War Era,” 2013 British American
Nineteenth Century Historians Conference, Madingley Hall, Cambridge, England,
October 2013.
“The Civil War as an ‘Act of God:’ Life Insurance and the Impact of the FourteenthAmendment,” From Property to Personhood: The Intents and Unintended
Consequences of the Reconstruction Amendments, Third Biennial UnCivil Wars
Conference, Athens, Georgia, October 2013.
“‘God’s Providence Seems to Have Been Showing Forth from All Quarters’: GeorgeCheever, Matthew Simpson, and the Ministerial Pursuit of Emancipation,” Baptist
History & Heritage Society Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia, May 2013.
“‘A Catholic that Loves Not His Country Does Not Understand His Religion’:Catholic Influence on Union Civil War Diplomacy, Politics of Citizenship, andState Formation,” The Politics of Religion: 13th Annual Graduate Student
Symposium, Department of Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida,February 2013.
“‘The Will of God Prevails’: Ministerial Influence on Union Diplomacy,” The
Transnational Significance of the American Civil War: A Global History, German
Historical Institute, Washington D.C., September 2012.
Invited Presentations“Bonds of War: Capital and the Evolution of Financial Markets in the American Civil
War,” Treasury Historical Association, United States Treasury Building,
Washington D.C., fall 2017, forthcoming.
“Bonds of War: American Civil War Debt and Global Capitalism,” Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, Connecticut, February 2017.
“Bonds of War: American Civil War Debt and Global Capitalism,” Bowdoin College,Brunswick, Maine, October 2016.
“‘Like a Cord Through the Whole Country’: The 7-30 Bond Drive and the Evolution ofNational Financial Markets,” Civil War Studies Seminar, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia, November 2015.
“The Nation’s Banker: Jay Cooke and the 5-20 and 7-30 Bond Drives,” LibraryCompany of Philadelphia Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2014.
“Bonds of War: Capital and the Evolution of Financial Markets in the American CivilWar,” University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, May 2014.

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“‘Otis,’ Charles, and Rowland: Sourcing the Wartime Legacy of the Howards,” The
Afterlife of the American Civil War, Bowdoin Alumni College, Bowdoin College,Brunswick, Maine, August 2013.
“Bowdoin Alumni: Disunion and Dissent,” Bowdoin and the Civil War at 150: Brothersin Arms, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 2013.
Fellowships
United Kingdom Travel Grant, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2017.
Rothschild Archive Research Bursary (for Roubaix, France archive), The RothschildArchive, London, England, 2016.
Program in Early American Economy and Society Fellowship, The Library Company ofPhiladelphia, 2014.
Marty and Bruce Coffey Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2014.
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York,New York, 2014.
New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, New York, New York,2014.
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, Indiana University, 2014.
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowship, Harvard Business School, 2013.
History Project Research Grant, Harvard Center for History and Economics, 2013.
University of Georgia Franklin College—University of Liverpool Doctoral StudentShort—Term International Research Fellowship, 2013.
Rothschild Archive Research Bursary, The Rothschild Archive, London, England, 2012.
Awards and Honors
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award, Office of Research, University of Georgia, 2017.
Postdoctoral Travel Grant, Business History Conference, 2017.
Business History Conference Doctoral Colloquium Participant, Business HistoryConference, 2016.
Gregory Graduate Research Award, History Department, University of Georgia, 20122015.
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowship, Business History Conference, 2015.
Emory Thomas Research Award, University of Georgia, 2015.
Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, University of Georgia, 2014.
Gregory Graduate Travel Award, History Department, University of Georgia, 2013.
Willson Center Graduate Research Award, The Willson Center for Humanities andArts, University of Georgia, 2012.
Sherman David Spector of the Class of 1950 Fellowship for Graduate Study in History
and Teaching, Bowdoin College, 2011.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Landmarks of American History andCulture Workshops for School Teachers (2), 2009.
Class of 1875 Prize in American History, Bowdoin College, 2008.
Professional Service
Advisory Board Member, O.O. Howard NHPRC Digitization Project, Bowdoin
College, 2014-2017.
Chapter Editor, American Yawp, 2015-present
Submissions Reviewer: Enterprise & Society
Chair, Graduate Student Connections Committee, Society of Civil War Historians,
2012-2016.
Contributing Editor, The Civil War Monitor, 2012-2015.
Associate Editor, The Southern Historian, 2011-2012.
Primary Contributor and Co-Editor, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Bowdoin CollegeDigital Archive, 2008.
University Service
Sacred Heart University History Club Faculty Advisor, 2016- present.
UGA History Department First Year Committee, 2012-2014.
History Graduate Student Association Treasurer, 2013-2014.
Mentor for first years in UGA History Department, 2012- 2015.

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Coordinator, 2012-2013.
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record:
American History to 1877
American History 1865 to Present
American Civil War (Fall 2017)
History of American Capitalism
History of United States Foreign Policy
Scholarly Affiliations
American Historical Association
The Business History Conference
The Society of Civil War Historians
The Southern Historical Association

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