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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.
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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.
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“ ‘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/
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“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.
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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. 69, No. 2 (May 2003): 434-35.
Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and Southern Mind. By Paul Christopher Anderson. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 110, No. 2 (2002): 274-75.
Tom Taylor's Civil War, by Albert Castel; and All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, by Gerald J. Prokopowicz. Joint Review in The Journal of American History Vol. 89, No. 2 (September 2002): 639-41.
The Loyal, True, and Brave: America's Civil War Soldiers. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. Civil War Book Review (Summer 2002): 18.
Pickett's Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg. By Earl J. Hess. America's Civil War. (July 2002): 58-60.
Perryville: The Grand Havoc of Battle. By Kenneth Noe. Journal of Military History. Vol. 66, No. 2 (April 2002): 565-66.
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. By David Blight. The Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 78, No. 2 (Spring 2002): 368-70.
The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864, by Anne Bailey and Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth and Stones River, by Earl J. Hess. Joint Review in Journal of Southern History.Vol. 68, No. 1 (February 2002): 184-86.
Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862 1864. Edited by M. Jane Johannsson. Arkansas Historical Review. Vol. 60 , No. 4 (Winter 2001): 430-31
Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign. By Warren E. Grabau. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies. Vol. 32, No. 3 (December 2001): 235-36.
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Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. By Mark E. Neely Jr. Mississippi Quarterly. Vol. 54, No. 3 (Summer 2001): 436-39.
A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865. By Russell F. Weigley. Georgia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 85 (Summer 2001): 305-307.
Three Days at Gettysburg : Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Edited by Gary Gallagher. Journal of Southern History. Vol. 67, No. 1 (February 2001): 183-84.
"Rally Once Again!" Selected Writings of Alan T. Nolan. By Alan T. Nolan. Civil War Book Review (Winter 2001): 4.
Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War, By Jeanie Attie. Ohio History. Vol. 109 (Summer-Autumn 2000): 223-24.
George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman, By Thomas J. Rowland. Journal of American History. Vol. 87, No. 2 (September 2000): 669-70.
Into the Fight: Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. By John Michael Priest. Journal of Southern History. Vol. 66, No. 2 (May 2000): 418-19.
Gray Ghost: The Life of John Singleton Mosby. By James A. Ramage. Indiana Magazine of History. (June 2000): 203-204.
Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign. By Daniel Sutherland. Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2000): 107-109.
Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade. Edited by Alan T. Nolan and Sharon Eggleston. Ohio History. Vol. 109 (Winter-Spring 2000): 115-16.
The Children’s Civil War. By James Marten. Florida Historical Quarterly. (January 2000): 375-377.
Civil War Generals in Defeat. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. Civil War History. Vol. 45, No. 4 (December 1999): 359-60.
Civil War Stories. By Catherine Clinton. North & South. Vol. 2, No. 6. (April 1999).Sealed with Their Lives: The Battle for Crampton’s Gap. By Timothy Reese. Columbiad. Volume 3, No. 3 (Fall 1999): 155-58.
With Charity For All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union. By William C. Harris. The Filson Club History Quarterly. Vol. 72, No. 4 (October 1998): 433-35.
The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Calloway. Edited by Judith Lee Hallock. Civil War History. Vol. 44, No. 3, (September 1998): 246-47.
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A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War and the Confederate Legacy. Edited by Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., and Kym S. Rice. The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 64, No. 3 (August 1998): 564-65.
Pickett's Charge in History and Memory. By Carol Reardon. Georgia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 82, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 435-36.
Shiloh: The Battle That Changed The Civil War. By Larry Daniel. Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society. Vol. 25 (June 1998): 46.
The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy. By William C. Davis. Mississippi Quarterly. Vol. 51, No. 2 (Spring 1998): 375-77.
They Rode with Forrest and Wheeler: A Chronicle of Five Tennessee Brothers' Service in the Confederate Western Cavalry. By John E. Fisher. Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War. Vol. 6, No. 2 (1998): 184-86.
The Darkest Days of War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth. By Peter Cozzins. Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War Vol. 6, No. 1 (1998): 131-33.
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James M. McPherson. Indiana Magazine of History. (December 1997): 393-95.
The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Edited by Steven Woodworth. Civil War History. Vol. 43, Issue 4 (December 1997): 335-36.
Pickett: Leader of the Charge: A Biography of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A. By Edward G. Longacre. Society of Civil War Historians Newsletter. Vol 10, No. 3 (Summer 1997): 2.
Winning and Losing in the Civil War: Essays and Stories. By Albert Castel. The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 63, No. 3 (August 1997): 675-76.
"Sumter is Avenged": The Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski. By Herbert M. Schiller. The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 63, No. 2 (May 1997): 418-19.
Mary Boykin Chestnut: A Confederate Woman's Life. By Mary DeCredico. Georgia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 81 (Spring 1997): 194-95.
Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree. By Thomas W. Cutrer. Civil War History. Vol 43, No. 1 (March 1997): 84-85.
Lee's Young Artillerist: William J. Pegram. By Peter S. Carmichael. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 104, No. 3 (Summer 1996): 410-11.
Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath. Edited by Gary Gallagher. H-CIVWAR. August 1996. 7
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The Journals of Josiah Gorgas. Edited by Sarah Wiggins. The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 62, No. 3 (August 1996): 585-86.
To the Manner Born: The Life of General William H.T. Walker. By Russell K. Brown. The Southern Historian. Vol. 17 (Spring 1996): 86-87.
Connecticut Yankees at Gettysburg, by Charles P. Hamblen. Edited by Walter L. Powell. The Southern Historian. Vol. 16 (Spring 1995): 106-107.
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. By Gordon C. Rhea. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 103, No. 1 (January 1995): 132-33.
Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864. By Albert Castel. The Southern Historian. Vol. 15 (Spring 1994): 97-98.
In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War. By Alice Rains Trulock. Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 1993): 198- 200.
Divided We Fall: Essays on Confederate Nation Building. Edited by John M. Belohlavek and Lewis N. Wynne. Atlanta History Vol. 36 No. 3 (Fall 1992): 51-53.
"God Ordained This War:" Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830-1865. Edited by David B. Chesebrough. Atlanta History. Vol. 36 No. 2 (Summer 1992): 42-43.
PAPERS, PANELS, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS “James McPherson's 'Battle Cry' After a Quarter Century." Roundtable Participant, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, January 2-5, 2015.
“Representations of Masculinity in Civil War Era Visual Culture.” Panel Chair, Biennial meeting of the Society of Civil War Historians, Baltimore, Maryland, June 13, 2014.
“Battlefield Cowardice, Violence, and Memory in the American Civil War.” Panelist, Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, April 4, 2014.
“Should Military History Be Central to the Study of the Civil War?” Panelist, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1, 2013.
“Mourning and Remembering the Civil War.” Panel Commentator, Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2013.
“Exploring Violence in the Classroom and in a Museum Setting.” Panel Moderator, “The Future of Civil War History: Looking Beyond the 150th,” Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 15, 2013.
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“Leading Women.” Roundtable Participant, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Mobile, Alabama, November 3, 2012.
“ ‘A Most Southern Way to Die’: The Meaning of Mortality in a Haunted Region.” Commentator, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 7, 2010.
“ ‘A Pack of Cowards’: Loss of Courage in the Confederate War Record.” Presented at the 18th Annual St. George Tucker Society Meeting, Augusta, Georgia, July 30, 2010.
“Manhood, Race, and Culture in the Civil War Era.” Commentator, Society of Civil War Historians Bi-Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia, June 18, 2010.
“These Zouaves Will Never Support Us”: Congress, Cowardice and the 1st Battle of Bull Run.” Presented at The United States Capitol Historical Society, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2010.
“ ‘The Rebs took us all’: The 16th Connecticut in War and Captivity.” Presented at The Association for the Study of Connecticut History Conference “Connecticut at War,” Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut, November 14, 2009.
“Ira Forbes’ War,” Presented at “Weirding the War: Actually Fresh Perspectives on the American Civil War,” Athens, Georgia, October 24, 2009.
“Other Civil War Soldiers.” Panel Chair and Commentator, Society of Civil War Historians, First Bi-Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 2008.
“State of the Field: Civil War Military History.” Panelist, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New York, New York, March 29, 2008.
“Myths and Monuments: Americans Remember Their Civil War.” Invited Lecturer, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, November 12, 2007.
“The Maryland Campaign of 1862: Leadership, History, and the Crossroads of Freedom.” Panel Commentator, Society of Military Historians Annual Meeting, Frederick, Maryland, April, 20, 2007.
“Gender, the Civil War, and the Midwestern Homefront: Women and Families Dealing with Disruptions. Panel Chair, Organization of American Historians 2006 Midwest Regional Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 7, 2006.
“Profiles in Leadership: The Civil War Generation.” Invited Roundtable Discussant, The Georgia Historical Society, Atlanta, Georgia, June 22, 2006.
“Controversial Confederates” Invited Speaker, Annual Lecture Series, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, February 25, 2006.
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“The Reconstruction Amendments .” Invited Lecturer, “Teaching American History Grant: The Akron Plan,” Akron Public Schools, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, February 11, 2006.
“Confederate Cowards.” Presented at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 4, 2005.
“The Promise and Perils of Civil War Biography.” Panel Commentator, The Society of Civil War Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2005.
“’I Never Was a Coward’: Questions of Bravery in a Civil War Regiment.” Invited Speaker, Frank L. Klement Lecture Series: Alternative Views of the Sectional Conflict, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 24, 2005.
“General Pickett and History,” Invited Lecturer, Ashland University Honors Speakers Series, Ashland, Ohio, October 11, 2005
“Has Gettysburg been Exhausted as a Topic for Serious Scholarship?” Panel Commentator, The Society of Civil War Historians Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, November 7, 2003.
“Race and the Evolution of the Lost Cause.” Invited Lecturer, 2003 Summer Institute of History Links: A Partnership to Teach American History, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio, June 18-20, 2003.
“Teaching the Civil War.” Panelist, Society for Military History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 3, 2003.
"Letting Black Women Tell It: Gender, Race and Historical Authority." Panel Chair, 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, June 6-9, 2002.
"Wives and Civil War Generals." Invited Lecturer at "Domestic Tranquility: The Victorian Home," 3rd Annual Women's History Symposium, Gettysburg National Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 8-10, 2002.
“Female Loyalty and Disloyalty in Confederate Virginia.” Panel Commentator, “Virginia’s Civil War and Aftermath,” Douglas Southall Freeman Southern Intellectual History Conference at the University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, February 21-24, 2002.
"Surely They Remember Me: Memory and the Civil War Soldier.” Featured speaker in the Lyon G. Tyler Lecture Series on "History, Memory and the Civil War," at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 18, 2001.
"Fighting, Surviving and Remembering: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers." Scholar-in Residence Lecture at The Civil War and American Society Seminar: Soldiers and
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Sailors in the Civil War, at the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, June 21-24, 2001.
"Remembering and Romanticizing the Civil War." Lecturer at Summer Seniors Week, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, Connecticut, June 4, 2001.
“Citizens’ Devotion: the Complex Meanings of Loyalty and Service in the Civil War.” Panel Commentator at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, November 8-11, 2000.
“Cult of True Womanhood: Past, Present, Future.” Participant, Roundtable Discussion, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, March 3, 2000.
“The 16th Connecticut in Captivity.” Presented at the Civil War Era Workshop, an initiative of the Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1999.
“‘Dastardly Subterfuges’: George E. Pickett and the Rules of War.” Presented at the 13thAnnual Deep Delta Civil War Symposium, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, June 4-5, 1999.
"'It Made You Immortal:' The Battle of Gettysburg and the Picketts." Presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 22- 25, 1999.
“The Politics of Memory After the Civil War.” Panel Commentator at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, April 15-18, 1999.
“Battles and Leaders: Another Look.” Presented at the Society of Civil War Historians Banquet and Roundtable Discussion, Birmingham, Alabama, November 12, 1998.
"The Longstreet Family." Presented at the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 28-July 3, 1998.
"'To Comfort, To Counsel, To Cure': Wives and Generals." Presented at the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 29-July 4, 1997.
"'No Drill, No Discipline': The 16th Connecticut Volunteers at Antietam." Presented at the Mont Alto Civil War Conference, Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, June 4-8, 1997.
"Marriage in the War." Presented at "Women, War and Victorian Society," Volunteer Training Workshop, Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, Tennessee, May 9-10, 1997.
"'The Had Sinned Against their Country, and their Country Would Not Forgive Them': Unionists Hanged at Kinston, North Carolina, 1864. Presented at the Organization of 11
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"'Cupid Does Not Readily Give Way to Mars': The Military Marriage of LaSalle and George E. Pickett." Presented at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 30-November 2, 1996.
"Sacred Places in Communal Memory: Preservation and Interpretation of Civil War Sites in Kentucky." Panel Commentator at the 12th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, October 18-19, 1996.
"'Murder of Union Soldiers in North Carolina': General George E. Pickett and the Kinston Hangings." Presented at the First Annual East Carolina University Civil War Symposium, Greenville, North Carolina, October 11-13, 1996.
"'What Happened to Me': LaSalle Corbell Pickett's Reconstructed Recollections of Self, Marriage and War." Presented at the Berkshires Conference on the History of Women, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 7-9, 1996.
"The Wartime Courtship and Marriage of George and LaSalle Pickett." Presented at the West Palm Beach Civil War Symposium, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 10, 1996.
"Aspects of the American Civil War." Panel Commentator at the 11th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, October 20- 21, 1995.
"A Confederate Widow as Image-Maker: LaSalle Corbell Pickett's Portrayal of General George Pickett." Presented at the Southern Association of Women Historians' Third Southern Conference on Women's History, Rice University, Houston, Texas, June 2-4, 1994.
"George and LaSalle Pickett: A Civil War Marriage." Presented at the 1st Central Delaware Conference on Military History, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware, May 20 22, 1994.
"Women in American Life." Commentator on five-part video and panel discussant, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, March 1992.
Invited Speaker to Civil War Roundtables across the country including ones in Arizona, Connecticut, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, 1995-present.
EDITORIAL SERVICE Editor, Civil War History, 2010-present. Series Editor, “Civil War in the North,” Kent State University Press, 2003-2012. Teaching History, National Advisory Board, 1997-present. Advisory Board, Civil War Times, 2010-present.
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Manuscript Reviews: Addison Wesley Longman Akron University Press Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South Bedford/St. Martins Press Houghton-Mifflin Journal of American History Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Indiana University Press Northern Illinois Press Oxford University Press Pennsylvania State University Press Pearson Education Routledge Books Southern Illinois Press University of North Carolina Press University of Tennessee Press University of Press of Kansas Virginia Magazine of History & Biography W.W. Norton & Company Wadsworth Publishing Wayne State University Press
OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Advisory Board, U.S. Grant Book Series, Southern Illinois University Press, 2012-present. Gettysburg Foundation Historians’ Council, 2012-present. Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities American History Research Fellowships, 2011. Advisory Board, Society of Civil War Historians, 1997-2010. Juror, C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize in Southern History, Southern Historical Association, 2008. Juror, Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College; 2003; Advisory Council, 1999-Present. Juror, The Museum of the Confederacy, Founders Award for Excellence in Primary Source Editing, 2004-2009; (Chair, 2009). Publication Project Peer Reviewer, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 2002; 2003. Advisory Board, The Civil War Institute of the Ohio Historical Society, 1999-2003. Membership Committee, 1999; Committee on Women, 1998-2001, Chair, 2000; Program Committee, 2003, Southern Historical Association. Collaborative Research Grant Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001. Conference Co-organizer, "Americans Remember the Civil War: Scholarship, Preservation and Public Memory," Murray State University, Murray, KY April 4-5, 1997.
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS Cecil H. & Ida Green Honors Professor, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, November 2011. George M. Blackburn Endowed Lecturer, Central Michigan University, October, 2011. 13
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Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 2009-present. Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Akron, Summer 2006. Chairs’ Award, Outstanding Achievement in Research, History Department, University of Akron, April 2000. Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Akron, Summer 1999. Chairs’ Award for Notable Achievement in Early Career, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, University of Akron, April 1999. Kentucky Heritage Council Grant, for co-organizing "Americans Remember the Civil War: Scholarship, Preservation and Public Memory," Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, April 4-5, 1997. Murray Tourism Board Grant, for co-organizing Americans Remember the Civil War: Scholarship, Preservation and Public Memory, Murray State University, April 4- 5, 1997. Presidential Research Fellowship, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, 1996-97. United State Military Academy-Reserved Officer Training Corps Military History Fellowship, June 1996. Warner-Fite Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in American History, Department of History, University of Georgia, June 1995. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, University of Georgia, May 1995. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, Summer 1993/renewed Summer 1994. Patriotic Service Scholarship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia, 1992-93. Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1992. Warner-Fite Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in American History, Department of History, University of Georgia, June 1992. Nominee for First Annual Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Master's Thesis Award Competition, 1992. Graduate Assistantship Supplement for Excellence as Teaching Assistant, Graduate School, University of Georgia, 1991-92. First Place Winner of the Georgia Association of Historians/National Archives Essay Contest, April, 1991. William Elbert Fraley Award, Department of History, College of William & Mary, May 1987. Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, 1984. ITT College Scholarship, 1983-87.
INTERNET, RADIO AND VIDEO “Rebels on Lake Erie,” Television Documentary, 2012. “The American Experience: Robert E. Lee,” Film Documentary, Apograph Productions, 2010. “Civil War Talk Radio.” March 25, 2005. "The Civil War Minute," WAKR AM 1590, Akron, Ohio, 2001. “The Civil War Forum.” Internet online discussion, CompuServe, January 5, 1999. "The Battle of Gettysburg." Video, Simitar Productions, 1993.
AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTEREST United States Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction eras American War and Society, 1607-1877 14
Lesley J. Gordon, Ph.D., CV Spring 2014
Member of the Society of Civil War Historians. Organization of American Historians, the Society for Military Historians, and the Southern Historical Association
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