Gary William Gallagher (born October 8, 1950) is an American historian specializing in the history of the

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. Gallagher in 2024 was the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the

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. He produced a lecture series on the American Civil War for ''

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Life and career

Gallagher received a

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from Adams State College in 1972. He then did graduate study in

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at the

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, receiving a

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in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1982. He was a professor of history at

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from 1986 to 1998, when he joined the faculty at the

. 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 minute each, with 24 hours of lectures in total. In 2021, Gallagher received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement.The Lincoln Forum
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Works

Authored Books

* with Joan Waugh: ''The American War: A History of the Civil War Era''. State College, Pennsylvania: Spielvogel Books, 2015 *
Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty.
' Athens:

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, 2013. *
The Union War.
' Cambridge, Mass.:

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, 2011. (Winner of 2012 Tom Watson Brown Book Prize, 2012 Laney Prize, 2011 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies;

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Editors’ Choice)
''Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil Wa''r
Chapel Hill:

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, 2008. *
Lee and His Army in Confederate History
'. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. *
The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861-May 1863
'' Oxford:

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, 2000. (History Book Club selection) *
Lee and His Generals in War and Memory.
' Baton Rouge:

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, 1998. (Winner of 1998 Fletcher Pratt Award; History Book Club selection)
''The Confederate War''.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. (Winner of 1998 Laney Prize and finalist for 1998 Lincoln Prize hared the prize with three other books History Book Club selection)
''Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant Genera''l.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. (History Book Club Selection)

Edited books

* * * * with Alan T. Nolan: * *

References

External links

Gary W. Gallagher
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Living people Adams State University alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Virginia faculty 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 1950 births 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub