Brian D McKnight Author

Brian D. McKnight is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, USA. A scholar of the Appalachian Civil War experience, his books Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia and Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia have explored the phenomenon of contested and coerced loyalty. McKnight is co-editor of The Kent State University Press’s Interpreting American History series.