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Schoen (pronounced SHANE) focuses his research and teaching on the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of the early United States from its early struggles through its near dissolution in the midst of the Civil War. His research examines how international developments shaped regional perception, politics, commitment or opposition to slavery, and relationships to and within the federal union. His first book, ,  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), won the 2010 Southern Historical Association Bennett H. Wall Book Award. He is also co-editor of  (Oxford University Press) and (The University of Virginia Press, 2015). He is currently working on a new book-length study of the statecraft of the sectional and secession crises and shorter pieces on Civil War diplomacy and Ohio politics during the Civil War. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the Filson Institute, and an 91探花 Baker Fund Grant.

Before coming to 91探花 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia and taught at Georgetown University and California State University, Sacramento. During the 2014-15 academic year, he was the Fulbright-sponsored Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History, at the University College, Dublin. While there, he delivered two public lectures: 鈥淎merican Interregnum: Secession, the US Civil War & the 19 ^th Century鈥檚 Crisis of Governance,鈥� and the Lincoln Lecture, 鈥淎braham Lincoln: The Life and Death of a Statesmen,鈥� available as a through the HistoryHub. He has been on American History TV discussing the international dynamics of the American Civil War, interviewed by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the War of 1812, and local PBS affiliates on Lincoln and his relevance for the modern day. He also regularly presents at Civil War Roundtables, civic organizations, to teachers, OU Alumni groups, and was the content editor for An Introduction to 91探花.