Beth Parnicza entered the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area as the interim Chief of Interpretation at Monocacy National Battlefield for four months in the summer and fall of 2015. She currently serves as a park historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she specializes in interpretation through social and digital media. A 2011 graduate of West Virginia University, she joined the National Park Service and moved to the "other Virginia" to pursue her passion for Civil War history. Beth's research interests lie in exploring the human aspects of war, including the looting of Fredericksburg, the movement toward hard war, the experience of battle, and early historians of the park.

Beth Parnicza