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American historian

Gary William Gallagher Born (1950-10-08) October 8, 1950 (age 75) Alma mater Adams State College (B.A.) University of Texas at Austin (M.A., Ph.D.) Occupation Historian Employer University of Virginia Notes [1][2]

**Gary William Gallagher** (born October 8, 1950) is an American historian specializing in the history of the [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War). As of 2024, Gallagher was the [John L. Nau III](/source/John_L._Nau) Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia).[3] He produced a lecture series on the American Civil War for *[The Great Courses](/source/The_Great_Courses)* lecture series.

## Life and career

Gallagher received a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from [Adams State College](/source/Adams_State_College) in 1972. He then did graduate study in [history](/source/History) at the [University of Texas at Austin](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Austin), receiving a [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts) in 1977 and a [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) in 1982. He was a professor of history at [Pennsylvania State University](/source/Pennsylvania_State_University) from 1986 to 1998, when he joined the faculty at the [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia).

He is the presenter of a series entitled The American Civil War. These lectures are available in video from The Great Courses. They are also available in audio only format on Audible. He both wrote and presented the lecture series as part of The Great Courses. The series has 48 lectures, 30 minutes each, with 24 hours of lectures in total.

In 2021, Gallagher received The Lincoln Forum's [Richard Nelson Current](/source/Richard_Nelson_Current) Award of Achievement.[4]

## Works

### Authored Books

- *The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis*. LSU Press. 2022. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0807177273](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0807177273)

- with [Joan Waugh](/source/Joan_Waugh): *The American War: A History of the Civil War Era*. State College, Pennsylvania: Spielvogel Books, 2015[5]

- *[Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty.](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/becoming-confederates-gary-w-gallagher/1113876431)* Athens: [University of Georgia Press](/source/University_of_Georgia_Press), 2013.

- *[The Union War.](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066083&content=reviews)* Cambridge, Mass.: [Harvard University Press](/source/Harvard_University_Press), 2011.[6] (Winner of 2012 Tom Watson Brown Book Prize, 2012 Laney Prize, 2011 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies; [The New York Times Book Review](/source/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review) Editors’ Choice)

- [*Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War*](https://uncpress.org/author-qa/9781469606835/). Chapel Hill: [University of North Carolina Press](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_Press), 2008.

- *[Lee and His Army in Confederate History](https://www.amazon.com/Army-Confederate-History-Civil-America/dp/0807857696)*. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

- *[The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861-May 1863](https://www.amazon.com/American-Civil-War-Essential-Histories/dp/1579583563).* Oxford: [Osprey Publishing](/source/Osprey_Publishing), 2000. (History Book Club selection)

- *[Lee and His Generals in War and Memory.](https://lsupress.org/books/detail/lee-and-his-generals-in-war-and-memory/)* Baton Rouge: [Louisiana State University Press](/source/Louisiana_State_University_Press), 1998. (Winner of 1998 Fletcher Pratt Award; History Book Club selection)

- [*The Confederate War*.](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674160569) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. (Winner of 1998 Laney Prize and finalist for 1998 [Lincoln Prize](/source/Lincoln_Prize) [shared the prize with three other books]; History Book Club selection)

- [*Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General*.](https://uncpress.org/book/9780807845226/stephen-dodson-ramseur/) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. (History Book Club Selection)

### Edited books

- *Lee, The Soldier*. University of Nebraska Press. 1996. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0803221536](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0803221536)

- [*The Antietam Campaign*](https://books.google.com/books?id=P6E1-osQ7TgC). University of North Carolina Press. 1999. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780807824818](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780807824818).

- [*Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership*](https://books.google.com/books?id=d4A2sMYeaMEC). Kent State University Press. 1999. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780873386296](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780873386296).

- [*Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander*](https://books.google.com/books?id=91bqCQAAQBAJ). University of North Carolina Press. 2000. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780807882344](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780807882344).

- with [Alan T. Nolan](/source/Alan_T._Nolan): [*The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=5SJvUWYDBhUC). Indiana University Press. 2000. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0253338220](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0253338220).

- [*The Wilderness Campaign*](https://books.google.com/books?id=2bV8be6JZZ4C). University of North Carolina Press. 2006. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780807857854](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780807857854).

- *The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864*. The University of North Carolina Press. 2009. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0807859568](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0807859568)

- [*Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Kpgvg6sB17cC). University of North Carolina Press. 2012. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780807835906](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780807835906).

## References

**Notes**

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Curriculum Vitae"](https://history.virginia.edu/sites/history.virginia.edu/files/Gallagher%20c.v.pdf) (PDF). Retrieved April 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Gary W. Gallagher, Historian, Author, Educator"](https://www.battlefields.org/contributors/gary-w-gallagher). [American Battlefield Trust](/source/American_Battlefield_Trust). Retrieved April 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-uvabio_3-0)** ["Gary W. Gallagher"](http://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/gwg2n). *Corcoran Department of History*. University of Virginia. Retrieved June 3, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [The Lincoln Forum](https://www.thelincolnforum.org/richard-nelson-current-award-of-achievement)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Rable2016_5-0)** [Rable, George C.](/source/George_C._Rable) (2016). "The American War: A History of the Civil War Era by Gary W. Gallagher, Joan Waugh". *The Journal of the Civil War Era*. **6** (4): 622–624. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1353/cwe.2016.0086](https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fcwe.2016.0086). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [2159-9807](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2159-9807). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [164493994](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:164493994).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Grant2011_6-0)** [Grant, Susan-Mary](/source/Susan-Mary_Grant) (2011). "*The Union War* (review)". *[Register of the Kentucky Historical Society](/source/Register_of_the_Kentucky_Historical_Society)*. **109** (2): 248–250. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1353/khs.2011.0104](https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fkhs.2011.0104). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [2161-0355](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2161-0355). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [153903422](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153903422).

**Further reading**

- Caroline E. Janney, [Peter S. Carmichael](/source/Peter_S._Carmichael), and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, eds. *The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher*. The University of North Carolina Press, 2024. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1469678894](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1469678894)

## External links

- [Gary W. Gallagher](https://www.c-span.org/person/?garygallagher) on [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)

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