Faculty publications from the Civil War Era Studies Department at Gettysburg College.

Follow

2024

January 6 and the Politics of History, James Downs, Stephanie McCurry, Joanne Freeman, Elizabeth Hinton, Jill Lepore, William Sturkey, and Julian E. Zelizer

2020

Aesthetic versus the "Mere Historic": Civil War and Frontier Photography at MoMA, Sarah Kate Gillespie

Battle of Loos, Ian A. Isherwood

2019

PDF

Review of The War that Used up Words: American Writers and the First World War, by Hazel Hutchison, Ian A. Isherwood

PDF

When the Hurlyburly's Done / When the Battle's Lost and Won: Service, Suffering, and Survival of Civil War and Great War Veterans, Ian A. Isherwood

PDF

The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs: A Digital History, Ian A. Isherwood, Amy E. Lucadamo, and R.C. Miessler

PDF

The Great War and the Digital Humanities: Creating a Project and Building a Team, Ian A. Isherwood, Amy E. Lucadamo, and R.C. Miessler

PDF

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall: A Place for Quiet Reflection, Carol Reardon

PDF

The Gettysburg Campaign, Carol Reardon

2018

PDF

Reconstruction: A Concise History, Allen C. Guelzo

Link

Abraham Lincoln's Life and Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo

Link

Did Robert E. Lee Commit Treason?, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

God and Mr. Lincoln, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

In a Gilded Cage, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Is Trump the De-regulator-in-Chief?, Allen C. Guelzo

Lincoln’s Statesmanship in Navigating a Divided Nation, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Reconstruction as a Pure Bourgeois Revolution, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

The History of Reconstruction’s Third Phase, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

This is Why Republicans Can’t Shrug Off the Stormy Daniels Saga, Allen C. Guelzo

Link

The Story of the 14th Amendment and America’s Second Founding, Allen C. Guelzo, Martha Jones, and Kurt Lash

2017

PDF

College is Trade School for the Elite, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Defending Reconstruction, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

First Trump, Now Clinton -- Investigative Hand-Grenades Keep Flying, Allen C. Guelzo

Link

Free Speech and Its Present Crisis, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Honor and Compromise, and Getting History Right, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

How Hard Is It to Drain a Swamp?, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Lincoln’s Forgotten Middle Years, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Play American, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Robert E. Lee and Slavery, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Should we Banish Robert E. Lee & his Confederate Friends? Let's Talk., Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

The Rusher Who Wouldn't Take the Knee, Allen C. Guelzo

Link

Triumph of the Will: The Protestant Reformation’s Descent into Narcissism, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

What if the South had Won the Civil War? 4 Sci-Fi Scenarios for HBO's 'Confederate', Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Commentary: California Secessionists Channel Logic of Southern Slaveholders, Allen C. Guelzo and James H. Hulme

PDF

Commentary: Challenging Three Electoral College Indictments, Allen C. Guelzo and James H. Hulme

PDF

Commentary: Will the Courts Make Trump's Presidency Less Imperial?, Allen C. Guelzo and James H. Hulme

PDF

In Defense of the Electoral College, Allen C. Guelzo and James H. Hulme

The Hancock-Walker Correspondence on Gettysburg, Allen C. Guelzo and Brianna E. Kirk

PDF

Remembering the Great War: Writing and Publishing the Experiences of WWI, Ian A. Isherwood

Gettysburg and the Great War, S. Marianne Johnson and Ian A. Isherwood

PDF

Decoration Days and Memorial Days, John M. Rudy

PDF

Delving Into Diaries of the Past, John M. Rudy

From Tokenism to True Partnership: The National Park Service's Shifting Interpretation at the Civil War's Sesquicentennial, John M. Rudy

PDF

Historical Society Has Tools to Dig Deep, John M. Rudy

PDF

Migrant Laborers and Their Stories, John M. Rudy

'Those Things of the Past,' The Storer Community and the 'Faithful Slave' Monument, John M. Rudy

2016

PDF

A Springfield Education, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Commentary: 14th Amendment Laid Foundation of Civil Liberties, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Commentary: What It Means To Be A Citizen, Allen C. Guelzo

Four Roads to Emancipation: Lincoln, the Law, and the Proclamation, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Great Emancipator was Radical of his Day: Lincoln Opposed Economic Injustice, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

The Lincoln-Douglas Solution, Allen C. Guelzo

British Memoirs and Memoirists of the Great War, Ian A. Isherwood

PDF

Remembering the Somme: This Watershed Battle of World War I Still Echoes with Honor, Sacrifice and Horror 100 Years Later, Ian A. Isherwood

The British Publishing Industry and Commercial Memories of the First World War, Ian A. Isherwood

PDF

What Would Florence Do?, Ian A. Isherwood

Link

Military Lessons from the Civil War, Ian A. Isherwood, Christian Keller, and Jennifer Murray

PDF

A Fractured Party, John M. Rudy

PDF

Digging Up a Local Hero in the Archives, John M. Rudy

PDF

Dig Into Local Black History, John M. Rudy

PDF

Historic Journey to the Ballot Box, John M. Rudy

PDF

Independence Day 1866, John M. Rudy

PDF

November Turmoil, John M. Rudy

PDF

She Spoke For Those Without A Voice, John M. Rudy

PDF

Story of Long-lost Adopted Hero Lives On, John M. Rudy

2015

PDF

Democracy and Nobility, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Did Religion Make the American Civil War Worse?, Allen C. Guelzo

Little Note, Long Remember: Lincoln and the Murk of Myth at Gettysburg, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Slavery's End Deserves a 150th Celebration, Allen C. Guelzo

The Ennobling Universal Passion, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

What If Abraham Lincoln Had Lived?, Allen C. Guelzo

2014

PDF

Gettysburg Valor Honored At Last, Allen C. Guelzo

On the Ground at the Gettysburg Sesquicentennial, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

"Public Sentiment Is Everything": Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Public Opinion, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Ten Miles from Richmond, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

The Political War, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Valor Finally Honored, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

A Time to Remember U.S. Rise as a World Power, Ian A. Isherwood

PDF

“To fly is more fascinating than to read about flying”: British R.F.C. Memoirs of the First World War, 1918-1939, Ian A. Isherwood

Writing the 'Ill-Managed Nursery': British POW Memoirs of the First World War, Ian A. Isherwood

PDF

"Remembrance Will Cling to us Through Life": Kate Bushman's Memoir of the Battle of Gettysburg, Brian Matthew Jordan

PDF

Dan Sickles, William H. Tipton, and the Birth of Battlefield Preservation, John M. Rudy

2013

PDF

A New Birth of Freedom, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Book Review: Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

George Meade’s Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Lincoln and Justice for All, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Lincoln and Liberty, Too, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Mad Dan, Allen C. Guelzo

Film Roundtable: Lincoln, Brian Craig Miller, Catherine Clinton, Allen C. Guelzo, Kevin Levin, John R. Neff, Megan Kate Nelson, and Matthew Pinsker

PDF

Gettysburg College & The Battle of Gettysburg: A Civil War Walking Tour, John M. Rudy '07

2012

PDF

Lincoln and Leadership: An Afterword, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

After Edwards: Original Sin and Freedom of the Will, Allen C. Guelzo

At the End of Two Wars: 1865 and 1945, Lincoln and Roosevelt, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Book Review: Lincoln and His Books, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Does Lincoln Still Belong to the Ages?, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Allen C. Guelzo

The Spy and Robert E. Lee: Gettysburg's "Lost" Order, June 28, 1863, Allen C. Guelzo

PDF

Lincoln Speeches, Allen C. Guelzo and Richard Beeman

Fighting for the South Mountain, Brian M. Jordan