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5. John Y. Simon. Grant and Halleck: Contrasts in Command. ISBN 0-87462-329-4. (1996). 33 pages with 2 illustrations. $5

John Y. Simon received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and since 1964 has been a Professor of History at Southern Illinois University and editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Twenty volumes of the papers have been published since 1967.

Simon has become a nationally known expert on Grant and the Civil War, as well as the dean of American documentary editors, a founder of the Association for Document Editing, and a spokesman for the craft before groups ranging from committees of the United States Congress to interested students.

He has also published dozens of articles in such journals as the Journal of American History, Military Affairs, Agricultural History, and the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. He has also contributed to numerous edited books, served as consultant to many historical societies and publishing projects, and delivered scores of talks at professional conferences, Civil War Round Tables, and universities.

Edward L. Ayers received his Ph.D, from Yale University in 1980 and since then has taught in the History Department at the University of Virginia, where he is now Hugh P. Kelly Professor of American History. A specialist on the history of the South, his books include Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment In the Nineteenth-Century American South (1984) and The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992). The latter won the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association and the James Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for a National Book Award.

Ayers has also been recognized for his teaching. He has won several teaching awards at the University of Virginia, including the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award. In 1995, he was John Adams Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, under the auspices of the Fulbright Commission.

Ayers is currently at work on a major project linking digital technology with Civil War history. As one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, he is the director of the “Valley of the Shadow Project,” an ambitious Website and CD-ROM that will explore the Civil War era in two communities, one in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania. His Klement Lecture draws on those experiences.

Phillip Shaw Paludan is Professor of History at the University of Kansas, where he has been a member of the faculty since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1968. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lincoln Prize (for The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln). He has also been recognized for his teaching as the winner of the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award in 1988 and as a visiting professor at Rutgers University and at University College in Dublin, Ireland.

In addition to articles in the American Historical Review, Civil War History, Reviews in American History, and numerous anthologies, he is the author of A Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law and Equality in the Civil War Era (1975), Victims, a True Story of the Civil War (1981), “A People’s Contest": The Union and Civil War (1988), and The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1994).

8. Catherine Clinton. Public Women and the Confederacy. ISBN 0-87462-332-4 (1999). 54 pp. $5.

Catherine Clinton received her A.B. from Harvard University in 1973, her M.A. from the University of Sussex in 1974, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1980. She has taught at Harvard University in both the Department of History and the Department of Afro-American Studies. She has also taught at Union College, Brandeis University, and Brown University. She has been the Douglas Southall Freeman Visiting Chair of History at the University of Richmond, the Lewis Jones Visiting Chair of History at Wofford College, and is currently the Weissman Visiting Chair of History at Baruch College, the City University of New York. She is a past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century, Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (with Nina Silber), Civil War Stories, Life in Civil War America, and, most recently, the Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Next year Simon & Schuster will publish her Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars and Harvard University Press will publish her Fanny Kemble’s Journals.

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9. George Rable. News from Fredericksberg. ISBN 0-87462-333-2 (2000). 52 pp. $5.

George C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. Among Prof. Rable’s publications are three books: The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (1984), which was a selection of the History Book Club; Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989), which won the Jefferson Davis Award and the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize; and But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984).

His Klement Lecture is based on his just-completed book about civilians during the Fredericksburg campaign.

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10. David W. Blight. Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: A Relationship in Language, Politics, and Memory. ISBN 0-87462-334-0 (2001). 24 pp. $5.

David W. Blight is Class of 1959 Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1985, he has written Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989) and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001). Blight has also edited or co-edited five books, including When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (1992); Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1993), and W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1997). Blight has also written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history.  

 

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11. J. Matthew Gallman. “Touched with Fire” Two Philadelphia Novelists Remember the Civil War. ISBN 0-87462-334-0 (2001). 24 pp. $5.

Dr. J. Matthew Gallman received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986 and is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of the Civil War Studies program at Gettysburg College. He is the author of many books and articles on the Civil War era, including Receiving Erin’s Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855 (University of North Carolina Press, 2000); The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (Ivan Dee, 1994) and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1990; paperback edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). He is general editor of The Civil War Almanac (Agincourt Press). He is currently writing a biography of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, one of the authors featured in his lecture.

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12. Joan Waugh. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause. ISBN 0-87462-336-7. (2003) 46 pp. 9 illustrations. $5.

Joan Waugh is associate professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she received her Ph.D. in 1992. She has received several awards for teaching and mentoring undergraduate students and research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, and the Gilder Lehrman Center. In addition to her regular teaching, Prof. Waugh leads the “Gettysburg Summer” program at UCLA, which sends undergraduates to Gettysburg, Washington, and other Civil War sites every year. She is the author of Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (1998) and editor of the volume on the Civil War and Reconstruction in Facts on Files Encyclopedia of U.S. History (2003). Prof. Waugh is co-editor of the forthcoming The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture and is currently working on two books: Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Cause and The War for the Common Soldier, both of which will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.  

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13. William Blair. Why Didn't the North Hang Some Rebels? The Postwar Debate over Punishment for Treason. ISBN 0-87462-337-5. (2004) 37 pp. $5.

William Blair is Director of the Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University and editor of Civil War History, the premiere journal on the history of the “middle period.” His dissertation, written under the direction of Gary Gallagher at Penn State, won the Allan Nevins Prize for Best Dissertation in American History from the Society of American Historians. He has also received the Philip S. Klein Award for Pennsylvania History and been named a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. In addition to numerous articles and chapters in books, Blair has written Virginia’s Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998) and co-edited The Making and Remaking of Pennsylvania’s Civil War (2001). He is the author of the soon-to-be published Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914.

 

 

 

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14. Lesley J. Gordon. "I Never Was a Coward: Questions of Bravery in a Civil War Regiment. ISBN-10: 0-87462-338-3 and ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-338-3. (2005) 43 pp. $5.

In popular imagination, the American Civil War remains a conflict in which all soldiers acted out of personal bravery and self-sacrifice. Communal memory and historical scholarship have insisted that every soldier was a hero. But there were men, not paragons but humans, who did not perform admirably or heroically. Many were shirkers, skulkers and deserters; those who fled from battle, or slipped away during long marches. I Never was a Coward focuses on a single northern regiment to highlight broad questions about bravery and cowardice. The wartime record of the 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment includes candid accusations, confessions and observations of cowardice in battle, in camp, at home, and in prison. By examining letters, dairies and newspapers, we learn firsthand how this regiment defined and redefined cowardice. Their fascinating story provides fresh insight into a topic rarely explored by Civil War historians.

Lesley J. Gordon is associate professor of history at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. She earned her A.B. in history from the College of William and Mary, and her MA and PhD from the University of Georgia. Her publications include General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (Chapel Hill, 1998), Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives (New York, 2001), This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (New York, 2003), and Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (Baton Rouge, 2005).

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15. Stephen Engle. All the President’s Statesmen: Northern Governors and the American Civil War. ISBN-13: 978-087462-339-0 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-339-1. Paperbound. 47 pages $5

Scholars of the American Civil War have all but ignored the fact that northern governors believed that federalism and consequently states’ rights did not die with secession. The political struggle to maintain some sense of governmental cohesion between nation and state persisted in the North throughout the war as these distinct and independent states were pressured to form a more unified nation. Americans had for decades empowered the states as guardians of liberty against the federal government, and as citizens volunteered through their states they remained committed to protecting these individual rights by fighting to preserve a Union that afforded them those liberties. Certainly, less visible than battlefield contests, this struggle was no less important because American government, both state and federal, had never before been under such strain to endure.” So begins the story of that struggle as recounted by History Professor Stephen Engle, of Florida Atlantic University.

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