Joseph Cook earned his BA in History with a minor in Civil War Era Studies from Gettysburg College in 2009 and his MA in History from American Military University. He is a veteran researcher of the Civil War Institute of Gettysburg, where his work contributed to the 2006 book The Gettysburg Gospel by Dr. Gabor Boritt. Currently, Joseph is scheduled to publish an article in a book to be edited by Dr. Peter Carmichael on the subject of cowardice at the Battle of Gettysburg. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians and the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society. In November 2013, Joseph was honored as the author of the top paper at the 21st annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression -- hosted by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; his paper dealt with newspaper coverage of the death of General E.R.S. Canby in the Modoc War.