Biography
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.
Publications
Books
- Americans Remember Their Civil War. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2017.
- Co-author, Pennsylvania: A Military History with William A. Pencak, Christian B. Keller, Westholme Publishing, 2016.
- 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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“A Debt We Never Can Pay, A Debt We Refuse to Repay: Civil War Veterans in American Memory,” South Central Review (Johns Hopkins University Press), summer 2016.
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“‘They Call Themselves Veterans’: Civil War and Spanish War Veterans and the Complexities of Veteranhood,” Journal of the Civil War Era, December 2015.
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“Mississippi River Campaign,” Blackwell Companion to the Civil War. Aaron Dean Sheehan, ed., February 2014.
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
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
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| 12987 | AMH3547 | U.S. Military History Since 190 | In Person (P) | Tu,Th 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Unavailable |
| 12996 | EUH3651 | War and Society | In Person (P) | Tu,Th 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Unavailable |
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