Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection, ed. by Neil Kagan, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2013. Includes four essays by E. Warren Perry, Jr.: The Vanity of Beast Butler (p. 154), A Haunting Relic of Gettysburg (p. 218), The Fall of Fort Fisher (p. 290), and Grant and His Generals (p. 304).
This 368-page volume is a collaborative project created to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, with 49 authors from several Smithsonian museums, and it features 150 carefully selected objects from Smithsonian collections.
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Echoes of Elvis: The Cultural Legacy of Elvis Presley, ed. by E. Warren Perry, Jr., with contributions by Mark Russell, Tanya Jung, Roy Brewer, and Stephen K. Wright, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2012.
Originating from an exhibition of the same name at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, Echoes of Elvis examines how Elvis's life, widespread fame, and legend fit into the greater framework of American culture and beyond. Each essay captures a segment of Elvis's life and ties it to his enduring cultural legacy.
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Elvis 1956: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer, by E. Warren Perry Jr., Amy Henderson, Alfred Wertheimer, and Chris Murray. Welcome Books: New York, NY, 2009. Winner of a Bronze Award from the 2010 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards.
Published as the catalogue for the exhibition Elvis at 21, developed collaboratively by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and Govinda Gallery, and sponsored nationally by The History Channel.
The national tour launched at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on January 8, 2010, and the exhibition was on view at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery from October 2010 to January 2011. The 14-venue tour extended through 2014 and closed at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia.
Link to Elvis 1956 webpage at Rizzoli New York
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Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War, a one-act, one-person play written and adapted by E. Warren Perry, Jr., Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery: Washington, DC, 2009.
Swift to My Wounded was first performed on November 13, 2006, for the National Portrait Gallery's Cultures in Motion Program, in collaboration with the Catholic University of America Drama Department. Playwright E. Warren Perry, Jr. uses Walt Whitman's words and his own adaptation of Whitman's writings to convey the drama of the Civil War in Washington, DC. Whitman served as a nurse in the Old Patent Office, used as a hospital during the war and now the Portrait Gallery's home.
Originally performed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and at the National Theatre, Washington, DC by actor Bill Largess, Artistic Director of the Washington Stage Guild, produced by the National Portrait Gallery and Catholic University of America, November 2006 through March 2007. The National Theatre performance was in October 2008.
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The Sitters, by E. Warren Perry, Jr. in The Best Plays of the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Volume Four, iUniverse: Lincoln, NE, 2007.
Riant Theatre Strawberry One-Act Festival (Off-off Broadway), New York City, August 2006. E. Warren Perry, Jr. was director and playwright of the one-act play The Sitters, winner of Best Director award. The play was also a finalist for Best Play, and members of the cast were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress awards.
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"De-sexing the Sexy and Making the Vixen a Violent Femme: The Arming and Othering of Maximou the Amazon in Digenis Akritas," by E. Warren Perry, Jr., published in the abstracts of the 29th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Session III, Late Antique and Byzantine Literature), Bates College, Lewiston, ME, October 16-19, 2003.
“These Two Queens Also Did a King to Death,” poem by E. Warren Perry, Jr. in River City Journal, Volume 22, Issue 2. The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, Summer 2002.
"Sex, Swords and Spirituality: Heroic Motifs in Digenis Akritis," by E. Warren Perry, Jr., published in the abstracts of the 26th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Session IX - The Byzantine Military), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 26-27, 2000.
