LESLEY JILL GORDON
Professor of History
Editor, Civil War History
Department of History, University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-1902
[email protected]
330-972-6630(O)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. American History, The University of Georgia, 1995
M.A. American History, The University of Georgia, 1991
A.B. American History, The College of William and Mary, 1987
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
“A Broken Regiment”: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press. Revising manuscript for publication, Fall 2012.
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.
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.
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
“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, 327-360.
“'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.
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SELECTED PAPERS AND PANELS
“ ‘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.
“Manhood, Race, and Culture in the Civil War Era,” Commentator, Society of Civil War Historians BiAnnual 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.
“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 BiAnnual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 16, 2008.
“State of the Field: Civil War Military History,” Panelist, Organization of American Historians Annual
Meeting, New York, NY, March 29, 2008.
“The Maryland Campaign of 1862: Leadership, History, and the Crossroads of Freedom,” Panel
Commentator, Society of Military Historians Annual Meeting, Frederick, MD, 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.
More than 60 Book Reviews in a variety of academic journals and popular magazines including
America’s Civil War Magazine, Civil War History, Civil War Book Review, Journal of American
History, Journal of Military History, and the Journal of Southern History.
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OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Editor, Civil War History, appointed April 2010.
Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 2009-present.
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities American History Research Fellowships, 2011.
Advisory Board, Civil War Times, 2010-present.
Series Editor, “Civil War in the North,” Kent State University Press, 2003-2011.
Juror, The Museum of the Confederacy: Founders Award, 2004-2009.
Juror, Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College, 2002.
Advisory Council for the Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College, 1999-Present.
Advisory Board, Society of Civil War Historians, 1997-2010.
Member of the Society of Civil War Historians, the Southern Historical Association and the Organization
of American Historians
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