Sarah Jones Weicksel is a historian whose research focuses on material culture, gender, and everyday life in the nineteenth century United States. Her work examines how clothing, textiles, and consumer goods shaped social identity and political conflict during the Civil War era. She studies how garments circulated through households, military systems, and wartime economies, revealing connections between domestic labor, violence, and national identity. She is the author of A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2026, which analyzes how dress and textile production reflected and influenced wartime society.