Niels Eichhorn PhdNiels Eichhorn is an assistant professor of history at Middle Georgia State University. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Arkansas. He is the author of two recent books, Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession,and the American Civil War (LSU Press, 2019) and Atlantic History in the Nineteenth Century: Migration, Trade, Conflict, and Ideas (Palgrave, 2019). He has published a series of articles and blog posts on Civil War history and is now working on a diplomatic history of the Civil War era. Read More Read Less