Gary gallagher biography
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Gary W. Gallagher
American historian
Gary William Gallagher (born October 8, ) is an American historian specializing in the history of the American Civil War. Gallagher in was the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia.[3] He produced a lecture series on the American Civil War for The Great Courses lecture series.
Life and career
[edit]Gallagher received a Bachelor of Arts from Adams State College in He then did graduate study in history at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a Master of Arts in and a Ph.D. in He was a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University from to , when he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia.
He is the presenter of an Audible series of lectures entitled The American Civil War. These are currently available on Audible as a series of read lectures which go into great detail on the Civil War. He both wrote and read the lecture series as part of The Great Courses. The series has 48 lectures, each averaging about 30 minutes, meaning more than 24 hours of lectures in total. This is presented exclusively for Audible books.
In , Gallagher received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement.[4]
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Gallagher, Gary W(illiam)
PERSONAL: Born October 8, , in Glendale, CA; son of William (a farmer) and Shirley (a homemaker; maiden name, Gray) Gallagher; children: William Paul. Education: Adams State College, B.A., ; University of Texas at Austin, M.A., , Ph.D.,
ADDRESSES: Office—Corcoran Department of History, Randall Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA E-mail—[emailprotected].
CAREER:National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, archivist at Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, ; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, assistant professor, , associate professor, , professor of history, , and head of department, ; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, professor of history, , John L. Nau III Professor of the History of the American Civil War, —. University of Texas at Austin, visiting lecturer, spring, , George W. Littlefield lecturer, American Battlefield Protection Foundation, member of board of trustees, —.
MEMBER: Organization of American Historians, Society of Civil War Historians, Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (president, , —, trustee, ), Southern Historical Association.
AWARDS, HONORS: Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, ; Mellon fellow, Virginia Historical Society, and ; gra
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