Gary Gallagher: 18 books
The American Civil War (1)
The war in the East 1861–May 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The United States saw long-simmering sectional tensions erupt into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861, beginning what would become the most cataclysmic military struggle in the western world between Waterloo and the First World War. This volume focuses on events in the Virginia...
Civil War
Fort Sumter to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The four long years of Civil War saw fighting across America on an unprecedented scale, incurring losses to both sides to an extent never previously imagined. As the battles raged from east to west, from the First Battle of Bull run to Sherman's march to the Sea, no part of America remained untouched...
Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this Civil War Short, Gary W. Gallagher surveys Confederate sentiment in the summer of 1863 and argues that many southerners did not view the battle of Gettysburg as a resounding defeat. Gallagher makes the compelling case that, although southern casualties were tremendous, Confederates across...
by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and...
Becoming Confederates
Paths to a New National Loyalty
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early—three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many...
by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In this collection, Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher examines Robert E. Lee, his principal subordinates, the treatment they have received in the literature on Confederate military history, and the continuing influence of Lost Cause arguments in the late-twentieth-century United States. Historical...
Memoirs of the Civil War
Between the Northern and Southern Sections of the United States of America 1861 to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
“William Wilson Chamberlaine’s Memoirs of the Civil War, though relatively little known because of its rarity in the original edition, contains much valuable information and engaging narrative passages. A Virginian whose Confederate career included service in an infantry regiment early in the...
New Perspectives on the Civil War
Myths and Realities of the National Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten
How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers...
by Michael Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Eight prominent and rising scholars come together to grapple with the seismic shifts in the study of the North's decision to wage Civil War in the wake of Gary Gallagher's The Union War (Harvard University Press 2012)
Antietam
Essays on the 1863 Maryland Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The relative importance of Civil War campaigns is a matter for debate among historians and buffs alike. Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Atlanta have their advocates. Gettysburg certainly maintains its hold on the popular imagination. More recently has come the suggestion that no single campaign or battle...
by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.
Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’...
Facets of Liberty
A Libertarian Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Facets of Liberty is a collection of historical articles by well-known liberty activists and theorists from the early days of the libertarian, voluntaryist, classical liberal and individual anarchist movements, which first emerged during the turbulent 1960s. These articles lay a foundation to understand...
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