Gary W. Gallagher

Gary W. Gallagher

Gary William Gallagher is an American historian . His research focus is on the civil war .

Life

Gallagher attended Adams State College , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1972 . He then continued his studies at the University of Texas at Austin . There he received in 1977 a Master of Arts and doctorate in 1982. Ph.D.

From 1977 to 1986 he worked as an archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library . In the spring of 1986 he was a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He also took up teaching at Pennsylvania State University in 1986 . At the Department of History there , Gallagher was Assistant Professor from 1986 to 1989 , Associate Professor from 1989 to 1991 and Professor from 1991 to 1998. From January 1991 to June 1995 he was also head of the Department of History . In 1998 he moved to the Department of History at the University of Virginia , where he taught as a professor from 1998 to 1999 and was appointed John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War in 1999 . In 2015 he became director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History .

In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians . From 2000 to 2004 he was President of the Society of Civil War Historians . His book The Union War won the 2011 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies .

Publications (selection)

• Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General. (1985, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
• with A. Wilson Greene: National Geographic Guide to the Civil War National Battlefield Parks. (1992, Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society)
• The Confederate War. (1997, Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press )
• Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. (1998, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press)
• The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861-May 1863. (2000, Oxford: Osprey Publishing)
• Lee and His Army in Confederate History. (2001, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
• with Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., Robert K. Krick: In Taller Cotton: 200 More Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher, and Collector. (2006, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, First Corps Books)
• Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War. (2008, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
• with Joan Waugh (ed.): Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War. (2009, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
• The Union War. (2011, Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press)
• with Rachel A. Shelden (Ed.): A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History. (2012, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press)
• Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty. (2013, Athens: University of Georgia Press)
• with Joan Waugh: The American War: A History of the Civil War Era. (2015, State College, Pa .: Spielvogel Books)
• with J. Matthew Gallman (Ed.): Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. (2015, Athens: University of Georgia Press)
• with Caroline E. Janney (Ed.): Cold Harbor to the Crater: Episodes of the War in Virginia in 1864. (2015, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
• with Elizabeth R. Varon (Ed.): Causes Won and Lost: The End of the Civil War. (2015, Richmond: Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission)

Web links

• Entry on the website of the Department of History at the University of Virginia