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Ari Kelman

Biography

Ari Kelman

Ari Kelman is the McCabe Greer Professor of the Civil War Era at Penn State University, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Avery O. Craven Award, and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons.

Ari Kelman

    Books by Ari Kelman

    Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
    Written by Ari Kelman and illustrated by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm - Graphic Novel

    The graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and the award-winning historian Ari Kelman team up to create a unique portrait of a brutal and defining event in American history: the Civil War. The result is Battle Lines, a monumental graphic history --- rendered in Fetter-Vorm's sweeping full-color panoramas, and grounded in Kelman's nuanced understanding of the period --- offering a series of wholly new perspectives on the conflict that turned this nation against itself.