The Freckled Historian


Lindsey R. Peterson, Ph.D.

Currently serving as the Digital Humanities (DH) Librarian/Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of South Dakota (USD), I digitally publish state and national nineteenth-century archival records, while bringing valuable DH skills to K-12 and college students.

As a war & society historian specializing in the American Civil War era, my current research analyzes how Union veterans and their families crafted place-specific commemorations of the Civil War in the trans-Mississippi West to bolster their vision of westward expansion.


History & Digital Humanities Scholarship

Selected Publications

The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi

Formerly with NEH and NHPRC funding, CWRGM is digitizing, editing, and publishing over 22,000 letters, petitions, and telegrams written to Mississippi’s Governors during the American Civil War and Reconstruction (late-1859–1878). This rich collection of resources—with key-word search-ability, transcription, subject tagging, annotation, and educator and scholarly resources—is freely available online at CWRGM.org.


Contact Me

Dr. Lindsey R. Peterson

  • Office 321C, I.D. Weeks Library, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069

  • Office Phone: 605-658-3399

  • Office Email: Lindsey <dot> R <dot> Peterson @USD.edu