Andrew W. Hoffman is a third year Ph.D. student in the history department at Mississippi State University. In 2020, he graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa with a B.A. in history, and in 2022 graduated from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia with an M.A. in History. His research focuses on the U.S. Civil War era, Reconstruction, and historical memory. Currently, his research centers on the Confederate memory of the war, specifically the connections between the Lost Cause, turn of the twentieth century progressivism, and New South Boosterism.