Kyle S. Sinisi
Associate Professor
| 421 Capers Hall |
 843-953-5246 |
| sinisik@citadel.edu |
Kyle S. Sinisi graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1984 with a BA in history. Following four years of active duty service in the United States Army, he attended Kansas State University where he earned both the MA and Ph.D. Before coming to The Citadel in 1994, Sinisi taught one year at Georgia Southern University.
Sinisi has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate level, including the US survey, Western Civilization, Revolutionary America, the Early Republic, Disunion and the War for Southern Independence, the Gilded Age, US Since 1919, Patterns of Warfare, Introduction to the Discipline of History, US Constitutional, and the Civil War in Film. His graduate courses have emphasized the Civil War, Gilded Age, and Historiography.
Sinisi specializes in the study of the government and military of the Civil War era. He is the author of Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880 (Fordham University Press, 2003) and a co-editor of Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (U. of South Carolina Press, 2003). Sinisi is currently at work on a book-length manuscript that examines Sterling Price's Confederate invasion of Missouri in 1864.