Nicole Etcheson specializes in 19th century American history and the era of President Andrew Jackson, the Mexican-American War, Civil War and Reconstruction. She has also researched the Civil War's impact on Indiana. Etcheson is the author of two books on pre-Civil War history.

Accomplishments

• Published book on pre-Civil War history, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (University Press of Kansas, 2004), was a History Book Club selection.
• Etcheson received a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend in 2004 to begin research on her book project, The Union Home Front: Putnam County Indiana, in the Civil War Era.
• She is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, among other organizations.

Education

• Bachelor's degree, Grinnell College
• Master's degree, Indiana University
• Ph.D.,  Indiana University