Angela Riotto
Affiliation:
University of Akron
Advisor:
Dr. Lesley Gordon
Academic Interests:
Pre-Industrial U.S. Warfare (18th and 19th Centuries)
American Civil War
American Civil War
Thesis:
Furnish the Balance: The 1863 Roots of Hard War Strategy in
the American Civil War
the American Civil War
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Bio Note:
Angela Riotto is a native of Pottsville, PA. She received her B.A. from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, in history, politics, and geology (2010). Combining historical and geological methodologies, her thesis “To Plant a Settlement at the Antipodes: An Analysis of the Australia Penal Colony at Port Jackson” argued that Governor Arthur Phillip’s actions were central to the penal colony’s survival within its harsh climate. She received her M.A. in American History with a minor field in War and Society from the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (2012). Her M.A. thesis analyzed U.S. Major Generals Grant and Sherman’s use of hard war strategy in Jackson, Mississippi during their push to Vicksburg, MS. She argues that hard war’s successful prosecution in Mississippi was the precursor for the Union’s implementation of the strategy in 1864. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in American History at the University of Akron under the supervision of Dr. Lesley Gordon.
Updated September 2012
