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Gordon, Ph.D., CV Spring 2014 LESLEY JILL GORDON, Ph.D. Editor, Civil War History Department of History, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-1902 330-972-6603 (Office)// [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. American History, The University of Georgia, 1995 M.A. American History, The University of Georgia, 1991 B.A. American History, High Honors, The College of William and Mary, 1987 TEACHING EXPERIENCE August 1998-present University of Akron, Department of History, Akron, Ohio Professor: August 2008-present (Tenure Granted: August 2001) Courses Taught: U.S. Survey to 1877, Civil War and Reconstruction, Graduate Reading and Writing Seminars: American History to 1877; U.S. Military History; The Early American Republic; American War and Society, 1607-1877; Historical Methods August 1995-May 1998 Murray State University, Department of History, Murray, Kentucky Assistant Professor of History Courses Taught: World History to 1500; U.S. Survey from 1865 to present; U.S. Survey to 1865; U.S. Sectional Controversy, 1815-1860; Civil War and Reconstruction, Introduction to Historical Methods PUBLICATIONS Books “A Broken Regiment”: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Forthcoming, Fall 2014. Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas. Co-editor with John C. Inscoe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Paperback edition, 2007. “This Terrible War”: The Civil War and its Aftermath. Co-author with Daniel E. Sutherland and Michael Fellman. New York: Addison Wesley Longman. 2003; 2nd edition, 2008. 3rd edition, New York: Pearson, 2015. Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. Co-editor with Carol K. Bleser. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Paperback edition, 2007. General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. History Book Club Selection. Paperback edition, 2002. Books in Progress Failures of Courage in the American Civil War. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1 Lesley J. Gordon, Ph.D., CV Spring 2014 Book Chapters (*peer reviewed) “ ‘These Zouaves will never support us’: Cowardice, Congress and the First Battle of Bull Run.” In Secession and War Comes to Washington, ed. By Donald Kennon and Paul Finkleman. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, forthcoming. *“Ira Forbes’ War.” In Wierding the War: Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges, ed. by Stephen Berry. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011, 340-66. “I Never Was a Coward: Questions of Bravery in a Civil War Regiment.” In More than a Contest of Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era, ed. by James Marten and A. Kristen Foster. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2008, 144-74. *“Courting Nationalism: The Wartime Letters of Robert G. Mitchell and Amaretto Fondren.” In Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas, ed. By Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005, 188-208. “ ‘Surely They Remember Me’: The 16th Connecticut in War, Captivity and Public Memory.” In Union Soldiers and the Northern Homefront; Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments, ed. by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall Miller. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002, 327-60. “ ‘Cupid Does Not Readily Give Way to Mars’: The Marriage of LaSalle Corbell Pickett and George E. Pickett.” In Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives ed. by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 68-86. *“'I Could Not Make Him Do As I Wished': The Failed Relationship of William S. Rosecrans and Ulysses S. Grant." In Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, ed. by Steven E. Woodworth. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001, 109-27. *“Let the People See the Old Life as It Was”: LaSalle Corbell Pickett and the Myth of the Lost Cause.” In The Lost Cause Versus History, ed. by Alan Nolan and Gary Gallagher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, 170-84. ''What Happened To Me:' LaSalle Corbell Pickett's Civil War." In The Human Tradition in American History: The Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. by Steven Woodworth. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000, 111-22. *"To Comfort, To Counsel, To Cure: Davis, Wives and Generals." In Jefferson Davis’s Generals, ed. by Gabor Boritt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 104-28. *"'In Time of War': Unionists Hanged at Kinston, North Carolina, February 1864." In Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence in the Confederacy, ed. by Daniel Sutherland. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999, 44-58. 2 Lesley J. Gordon, Ph.D., CV Spring 2014 “ ‘All Who Went Into That Battle Were Heroes’: Remembering the 16th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers at Antietam.” In The Antietam Campaign, ed. by Gary Gallagher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999, 169-91. *"The Seeds of Disaster: The Generalship of George Pickett after Gettysburg." In Leadership and Command in the American Civil War, ed. by Steven E. Woodworth. Campbell, CA: Savas-Woodbury Publishers, 1995, 147-94. Articles, Book Introductions and Published Lectures “ ‘The Most Unfortunate Regiment’: The 16th Connecticut and the Siege of Plymouth, N.C,” Connecticut History Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring 2011): 37-61. “I Never Was a Coward”: Questions of Bravery in a Civil War Regiment. Frank L. Klement Lecture Series: Alternative Views of the Sectional Conflict. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2005. *Introduction to Gettysburg: Stories of Memory, Grief, and Greatness by Elsie Singmaster. 1911 Reprint. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003, xiii-xxviii. “They Never Had a Chance: The 16th Connecticut at the battle of Antietam.” America’s Civil War Magazine: Antietam Commemorative Issue. (September 2002): 72-78. *"A Widow and Her Soldier: A New Look at the Pickett Letters.” Co-author with David Holmes and Christine Wilson. History and Computing No. 11, Vol. 3 (1999): 159-79. Also as “A Widow and Her Soldier: Stylometry and the American Civil War.” Literary and Linguistic Computing No. 4, Vol. 16 (2001): 403-420. "Pickett Before Gettysburg." North & South: The Magazine of Civil War Conflict. Vol. 1, No. 4 (April 1998): 58-67. "Two Georgians and the Cuban Missile Crisis." Co-author with Pamela Hackbart-Dean. Georgia Journal. Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 1992): 16-18. "'Until Calm Reflection Should Take the Place of Wild Impulse:' George E. Pickett and the Hangings at Kinston, North Carolina, February 1864." Proceedings and Papers of the Georgia Association of Historians. Vol. 12 (1991): 19-45. "'Storms of Indignation:' Propaganda, Art and Andersonville." Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol. 75, No. 3 (Fall 1991): 587-600. Encyclopedia Entries: “George E. Pickett.” In the Essential Civil War Curriculum (2011). http://essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/ “George E. Pickett,” and “LaSalle Corbell Pickett.” In the Encyclopedia of Virginia (2008). http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/ 3 Lesley J. Gordon, Ph.D., CV Spring 2014 “Veterans Organizations,” and “Revolutionary War Remembered.” In The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Paul Finkleman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001. “George E. Pickett.” In the Encyclopedia of the Civil War, ed. by David Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. ABC-CLIO, 2000. "The Beefsteak Raid," "Francis Marion Cockrell," "Arnold Elzey," "Fort Pickens, Florida," "The Battle of Gaines' Mill," "Samuel Garland, Jr.," "John Breckinridge Grayson," "Edward Higgins," "The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid," "Dabney. H. Maury," "The Battle of Mobile Bay," "The Mobile Campaign," "John Creed Moore," "The Peninsular Campaign," "Gustavus. W. Smith," "Thomas Hart Taylor," "Bryan Moral Thomas," "John B. Villepigue." In Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, ed. by Richard N. Current. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Book & Film Reviews: Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. By Allen C. Guelzo. Journal of American History. Forthcoming. General Lee’s Army: from Victory to Collapse. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. Journal of Southern History. Vol. 76, No. 1 (February 2010): 158-160. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers. Edited by Aaron Sheehan Dean. Civil War History. Vol. 55, No. 2 (June 2009): 307-309. Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. By Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Georgia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 92, No. 3 (Fall 2008): 435-37. More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. By Mark A. Weitz. Georgia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 90, No. 4 (Winter 2006): 577-79. The Divided Family in Civil War America. By Amy Murrell Taylor. Journal of American History. Vol. 93, No. 3 (December 2006): 873. The UnCivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. By Robert R. Mackay. Civil War History. Vol. 52, No. 2 (June 2006): 214-16. Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge. Film Review for Journal of American History. Vol. 92, No. 4 (December 2005): 10-11. Vicksburg is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River. By William L. Shea and Terrence J. Winschel. Gulf South Historical Review: The Journal of the Gulf South Historical Association Vol. 21, No. 1 (Fall 2005): 98-100. The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895. By Jane Turner Censer. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Vol. 64 (Summer 2005): 218-19. 4 Lesley J. Gordon, Ph.D., CV Spring 2014 The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Edited by Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh. North & South Magazine. Vol. 8, No. 3 (May 2005): 82-83. These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory. By Thomas A. Desjardin. Civil War History. Vol. 51, No. 1. (March 2005): 106-107. The War within the Union Command: Politics and Generalship During the Civil War. By Thomas J. Goss. Civil War Book Review.com. (Summer 2004). Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! By George C. Rable. Civil War History. Vol. 49, No. 2. (June 2003): 196-97. Lee and His Army in Confederate History. By Gary W. Gallagher. Journal of Southern History. Vol.