Her most recent book, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March in American Memory (2014), which has a multimedia component at www.shermansmarch.org, studies the place of Sherman's March in American culture and history. Rubin's first book, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy (2005), received the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians for the most original book on the Civil War era. She was a co-author of the award-winning Valley of the Shadow, an interactive history of the Civil War in two communities. Rubin was President of the Society of Civil War Historians from 2012–2014 and is a member of its Advisory Board.