Kyle S. Sinisi graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (Lexington, Virginia) in 1984 with a B.A. in history. Following four years of active-duty service in the United States Army, he attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, where he earned both an M.A. and PhD, also in history.

As a professor at The Citadel Military College of South Carolina in Charleston since 1994, Dr. Sinisi concentrates his course offerings on the Civil War, World War II, U.S. military history, and the history of weaponry. He is a two-time recipient of the James A. Grimsley Award, The Citadel’s annual award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He currently serves on the Advisory Council for the National Civil War Museum and the Board of Directors for the Friends of Charleston National Parks.

Dr. Sinisi is co-editor (with Professor Michael B. Barrett) of the “War and Society” line of books for the Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. He is the author of The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition of 1864 (A.M. Pate Award for “Best Book of 2015” on the Trans-Mississippi Civil War) and Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism. He is also a co-editor of Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Kyle can be seen in programs on the Discovery Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, and South Carolina Educational Television.