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'''Damon R. Eubank''' (born November 8, 1959) is an [[historian]] at [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/damon-eubank/e211906993320|title=Damon Eubank (R)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> principally known for his study of the family of [[U.S. Senator]] John J. Crittenden: ''In the Shadow of the Patriarch: The John J. Crittenden Family in War and Peace.''<ref name=crittenden>{{cite book|url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Patriarch/Damon-R-Eubank/e|title=In the Shadow of the Patriarch|author=Damon R. Eubank|publisher=barnesandnoble.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref>
In 1989, Eubank received his [[Ph.D.]] from [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville in eastern [[Mississippi]]. His dissertation was published fifteen years later in 2004 as ''Response of Kentucky to the Mexican War, 1846-1848.''<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.valorebooks.com/Search/ISBN/9780773464957|title=Response of Kentucky to the Mexican War, 1846-1848|publisher=Edwin Mellen Press in Lewistown, [[New York]]|date=2004|isbn=ISBN 978-0-7734-6495-7|accessdate=February 27, 2011}}</ref> Earlier, in 1992, Eubank published an article based on the dissertation. This selection is entitled "A Time of Enthusiasm: The Response of Kentucky to the Call for Troops in the Mexican War."<ref>Damon R. Eubank, "A Time of Enthusiasm: The Response of Kentucky to the Call for Troops in the Mexican War," ''Register of the Kentucky Historical Association'' 90 (1992), pp. 323-344; also cited in Lowell Hayes Harrison and James C. Klotter, ''A New History of Kentucky.''</ref>
In his work on Senator Crittenden, Eubank tells the family story from the contributions of the children of the patriarch. George B. Crittenden of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate Ary]] and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, enlisted in the rival Union Army, held significant opposing commands during the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=crittenden/> Daughter Ann Mary Crittenden's domestic life, stable in the antebellum years, was in time shattered by the turmoil of war. Several other Crittinden Crittenden siblings were leaders in their respective communities. The divisions of war were followed by the rapprochement and reunion of the family which occurred after Crittenden's death. Most of Eubank's book focuses on the Civil War. The pressure to succeed, which the patriarch placed on his sons, seemed to have handicapped both men in their commands, Eubank concludes.<ref name=crittenden/>
In 2009, corresponding with his book publication, Campbellsville University named Eubank its 17th recipient of its "Excellence in Teaching Award."<ref name=eubank>{{cite web|url=http://cuarchive.info/2009/06_09.asp|titleauthor=Joan C. McKinney, "|title=Dr. Damon Eubank Receives 17th Annual Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty Member"|publisher=cuarchive.info|accessdate=February 2714, 20112020}}</ref> Eubank has developed a new course on the [[Holocaust]] and plans to take a group of students to [[Poland]]. He is developing an ancient history course, with the expectation of field study in [[Italy]] and [[Greece]]. He is a member of the Southern Historical Association, the Society of Civil War Historians, the Kentucky Historical Association, and the Filson Club. He is a member of the [[Abraham Lincoln]] Bicentennial Committee and the Kentucky Bicentennial Committee. He serves as a book reviewer for ''The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History,'' published by Auburn University,<ref name=eubank/> ''West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvhvol59toc.html|title=''West Virginia History: Your Gateway to the History of the Mountain State, 1939-2006'', Vol. 59 (2001-2003)|publisher=wvculture.org|accessdate=February 27, 2011}}</ref> and ''Louisiana History,''<ref name=eubank/> published by the Louisiana Historical Association through the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]].
