New Perspectives on the Union War
By Gary W. Gallagher & Elizabeth R. Varon &Publisher Description
Eight prominent and rising scholars come together to grapple with the seismic shifts in the study of the North's decision to wage Civil War in the wake of Gary Gallagher's The Union War (Harvard University Press 2012)
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About Gary W. Gallagher
Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Union War.
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Elizabeth R. Varon
Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Associate Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous books, including Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War.
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Michael Caires
Michael T. Caires, a research associate at the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Greenback Union: The Transformation of Money, Capitalism, and the State in the American Civil War (forthcoming, Harvard University Press).
Frank Cirillo
Frank J. Cirillo earned his doctorate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and holds a Bradley Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Nau Center and J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship from the American Historical Association.
D.H. Dilbeck
D. H. Dilbeck, a historian living in New Haven, Connecticut, is the author of A More Civil War: How the Union Waged a Just War (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) and Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
Jack Furniss
Jack Furniss earned his doctorate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and holds a Bradley Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Nau Center and a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow appointment at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford.
Gary W. Gallagher
Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Union War.
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Jesse George-Nichol
Jesse George-Nichol is a graduate student in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.
William B. Kurtz
William B. Kurtz is managing director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia and author of Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America (Fordham University Press, 2015).
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Peter Luebke
Peter C. Luebke is a historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command and editor of The Story of a Thousand: Being a History of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union, from August 21, 1862, to June 6, 1865 (Kent State University Press, 2011)
Elizabeth R. Varon
Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Associate Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous books, including Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War.
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