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Experts



Garry E. Adelman 

Garry E. Adelman is the author, co-author or editor of more than thirty books and articles concerning the Civil War.  he is the vice president of the Center for Civil War Photography and has been a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg for 17 years.  He works full time as Director of History and Education at the Civil War Trust.

Ed Bearss

Edwin Bearss is the retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service, 1981-1994, and author of Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg-The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War (National Geographic, 2010).

Keith Bohannon         

Keith Bohannon is an Associate Professor of History at the University of West Georgia and the co-editor of Campaigning With "Old Stonewall": Confederate Captain Ujanirtus Allen's Letters to His Wife (Louisiana State University Press, 1998).

 Glenn David Brasher

Glenn David Brasher is a History Instructor at the University of Alabama and a former Park Service Ranger at the Richmond National Battlefield Park. His forthcoming book is The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

 

Pete Carmichael

Peter Carmichael is the Director of the Civil War Institute and the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College. His most recent publication is The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

Tom Clemens

 

Tom Clemens is a history professor at Hagerstown Community College and a longtime NPS volunteer, interpreter, and living history presenter. Additionally, he is the editor of Ezra Carman's The Maryland Campaign of September, 1862: Volume I, South Mountain (Savas Beatie, 2010).

 

 
Dennis Frye

Dennis Frye is a veteran of the National Park Service and the Supervisory Historian at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park.

 

Kent Gramm received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee).  He has taught American studies, American literature, and creative writing in Germany as well as in the U.S.  He is currently a visiting professor in the English Department at Gettysburg College.

Mark Grimsley

 

Mark Grimsley is an Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. His most recent works are Shiloh: A Battlefield Guide (Bison Books, 2002), as well as two blog projects: Blog Them Out of the Stone Age and Civil Warriors.

 

 

 

Clark B. Hall has served since 1995 as Senior Managing Director for The Fairfax Group, a global security and investigative firm.  Mr. Hall specializes in conducting complex internal inquiries for multinational companies, major law firms and sovereign governments.  Additionally, Mr. Hall is experienced in the design and implementation of compliance programs on behalf of Fortune 500 companies experiencing systemic misconduct violations.

Keith Harris

Keith Harris is a blogger and historian. He received his Ph.D in American History from the University of Virginia, and writes for the blog Cosmic America.

Scott Hartwig

Scott Hartwig is a National Park Service Supervisory Historian at Gettysburg National Military Park and contributor to Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat (University of Alabama Press, 2008).

John hennessy

John Hennessy is the Chief Historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and author of Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas (University of Oklahoma Press, 1999).

Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer is the Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  He is considered to be one of the leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War Era. His most recent book is Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861 (Simon and Schuster, 2008).

Caroline Janney

Caroline Janney is an Associate Professor of History at Purdue University.  Her first book, published in 2008, is Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (University of North Carolina Press).

Brian Jordan

Brian Jordan is a 2009 graduate of Gettysburg College and is currently pursuing a Ph.D in History at Yale University.

 

 
 Christian Keller

Christian B. Keller is a professor of military history and strategy at the U.S. Army War College. He is co-author of Damn Dutch:  Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg (Stackpole Books, 2004) and author of Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory (Fordham University Press, 2007).

Kevin Levin

Kevin Levin is a historian, blogger, and history educator. His forthcoming book is Remembering Murder as War: The Battle of the Crater (University Press of Kentucky, Spring 2012).

Anne Marshall

Anne Marshall is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. Her most recent work is Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

Christian McWhiter Christian McWhirter is an Assistant Editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.  He is the author of, Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
Kathryn Meier

Kathryn S. Meier  is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Scranton.

 

Eric Mink is a historian with the National Park Service and serves as Cultural Resource manager at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

Jennifer Murray

Jennifer Murray received her Ph.D in American History from Auburn University in 2010 and recently accepted a job as Historian for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Her dissertation and forthcoming book is entitled On A Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2009.

Megan Kate Nelson is a lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (Georgia, 2005) and the forthcoming Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia, 2012).

Beth Parnicza Beth Parnicza is a historian for the National Park Service at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and a 2011 graduate of West Virginia University.
Jeff Prushankin

Jeffery S. Prushankin (University of Arkansas 2000) is the Visiting Professor in Civil War Era Studies at Millersville University. Dr. Prushankin is also a lecturer in American History at Penn State University's Abington College and an adjunct professor at Montgomery County Community College. His specialization is the Civil War.

Jackie Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College.  She has lectured in history at St. Joseph's University and both history and American Studies at Temple University.

Patrick Schroeder is a Civil War author and historian. He holds a B.S. in Historical Park Administration from Shepherd College and a M.A. in Civil War History from Virginia Tech. He is the Historian at Appomattox Court House Historic Park. Mr. Schroeder has written, edited or published eighteen Civil War titles. He lives in Lynchburg, Virginia where he and his wife run Schroeder Publications.

Brooks Simpson

Brooks Simpson is a Professor of History at Arizona State University who specializes in Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. His most recent book is The Collapse of the Confederacy (University of Nebraska Press, 2001).

Mark Snell

Mark Snell is a Professor of History at Shepherd University and Director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War. He is the author of West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free (History Press, 2011).

Craig Symonds

Craig Symonds is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he taught Naval and Civil War history for 30 years. In 2009, Symonds won the Lincoln Prize for Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Chuck Teague Charles "Chuck" Teague, Chaplain, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Air Force, retired, is a Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park.
Ural

Susannah Ural is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi, as well as a senior fellow in USM's Center for the Study of War and Society. She is the author of The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (NYU Press, 2006).

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