Eric Plaag

Eric Plaag is a historian, writer, and photographer in Boone, North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of South Carolina. Plaag has served as a historical consultant for various individuals, municipalities, and institutions, including the National Park Service and the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and is the author of more than a dozen nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. He was the project historian and co-author of A Reconnaissance Level Survey of Sherman’s March, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Slavery and Abolition, New York History, Journal of Southern History, South Carolina Historical Magazine, and Dixie Emporium: Consumerism, Tourism, and Memory in the American South.