Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt earned her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington. Bohrnstedt actively seeks to research the lives of characters and communi...view moreJennifer Cain Bohrnstedt earned her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington. Bohrnstedt actively seeks to research the lives of characters and communities caught in pivotal eras of war, economic stress and cultural change and writes mainly through the forms of documentary editing and historical nonfiction. Works underway will continue with military history, while she introduces themes of immigration studies, photographic or visual history, and the history of education.
Her publications include: While Father Is Away, The Civil War Letters of William H. Bradbury (UKY, 2003) and Soldiering with Sherman: The Civil War Letters of George F. Cram (NIU, 2000), Views From My Schoolroom Window (AuthorHouse 2006) and Snapshots of a Century in the West (Dry Heat Press, 2007). Her websites (ViewsFromMySchoolroomWindow.com and CivilWarSoldiers.com) provide free instructional materials for use by educators and book clubs.
Jennifer serves as both an adviser to Authors Across America (AuthorHouse) and as a board adviser to the Cumberland Valley Civil War Heritage Association in Tennessee. She is an occasional lecturer to schools, libraries, lifelong learning communities, and historical societies around the country. In 2007 the city of Palm Desert, California exhibited Bohrnstedt's first gallery display of 55 works of visual history based upon collected, antiquarian, amateur photography.view less