Barbara A. Gannon received her doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University in 2005. Her areas of specialty include: Military History, Civil War and Reconstruction, Veterans, and African American history. Her book, The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2011.
Education
- Ph.D. in History from Penn State
Research Interests
Veterans; U.S. Military History before 1900; Civil War; Memory
Recent Research Activities
A comprehensive analysis of the American Veteran from 1783 to 2003.
A Study on Civil War memory.
Selected Publications
Books
- The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Articles/Essays
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“‘She is a Member of the 23rd’”: Lucy Nichols and the Community of the Civil War Regiment” in This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War Era North, Andrew Slap and Michael Smith, eds., Fordham University Press, 2013.
Awards
Honorable Mention, Lincoln Prize 2012, recognized by the Gilder Lehman Institute and Gettysburg College.
Finalist, Jefferson Davis Prize 2012, given by the Museum for the Confederacy.
Wiley-Silver Prize 2012 (University of Mississippi/Center for Civil War Research) Best First Book on the Civil War
Courses
No courses found for Summer 2012.
| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 80795 | AMH3541 | U.S. Military History to 1900 | Face2Face | M,W,F 9:30AM - 10:20AM | Not Online |
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| 81569 | AMH4170 | Civil War and Reconstruction | Face2Face | M,W,F 12:30PM - 1:20PM | Not Online |
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| 90435 | AMH6939 | Seminar in U.S. History | Face2Face | W 6:00PM - 8:50PM | Not Online |
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| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11265 | AMH3547 | U.S. Military History Since 190 | Face2Face | Tu,Th 3:00PM - 4:15PM | Not Online |
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| 11572 | AMH4170 | Civil War and Reconstruction | Face2Face | Tu,Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM | Not Online |
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No courses found for Summer 2013.
| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 81420 | AMH4170 | Civil War and Reconstruction | Face2Face | M,W,F 1:30PM - 2:20PM | Not Online |
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| 81928 | AMH6939 | Seminar in U.S. History | Face2Face | Th 6:00PM - 8:50PM | Not Online |
| No Description Available | |||||
No courses found for Spring 2014.
Updated: Apr 1, 2013
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