Western Civilization Survey, ancient world to 1500
Western Civilization Survey, 1500 to the present
Professional Conferences/Public Appearances/Lectures
Lecturer, “How Did the Peninsula Campaign Lead to Emancipation?” Rural Plains Foundation Lecture Series: “Lectures on the Lawn,” Mechanicsville, Virginia, May 21, 2015.
Paper Presentation, “What Should Historians Make of ‘Black Confederates?’” Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 2014 Conference, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 5, 2014.
Interviewed, After Slavery blog, by Professor Brian Kelly, December 9, 2012.
Lecturer, “The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation,” at Colonial National Park Symposium: “Contraband, Freedmen and Community: The African American Experience in the Union Occupied South during the Civil War,” Yorktown, Virginia, July 20, 2013.
Interviewed, “Behind the Lines” video, for Civil War Monitor, September 28, 2012.
Lecturer, “The Peninsula Campaign: ‘Black Confederates,’ Entrenchments, Military Intelligence, and the Necessity of Emancipation,” presented at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 23, 2012.
Panel Discussion, “Debating Emancipation,” at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 23, 2012.
Interviewed, “Civil Talk Radio,” by Professor Gerry Prokopowicz, June 22, 2012.
Virtual Book Signing, Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, Chicago, Illinois, March 31, 2012.
Panel Commentator, “Resistance and Redefinition in the American South During the American Civil War,” University of Alabama Graduate Student History Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 7, 2009.
Awards and Honors
Center for Civil War Research, University of Mississippi, Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War History, October, 2013.
Southern Historical Association, one of three finalists for the 2008 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize.
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, Outstanding Dissertation Award, February 2008.
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, Mellon Research Fellowship, March 2005.
Department of History, University of Alabama, Frank Lawrence Owsley Award for Superior Competency in American History, April 2004.
“No Better Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Gary W. Gallagher.” In The Historian Behind the History: Conversations with Southern Historians (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2014).
“Conversation: Dr. Gary Gallagher,” Southern Historian, volume 26 (Spring, 2005).
Reviews
Edna Greene Medford, Lincoln and Emancipation, in Civil War Monitor“Bookshelf,” (June 1, 2016).
Colin Edward Woodward, Marching Masters; Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War, in North Carolina Historical Review 93:2 (April, 2016).
Jonathan W. White, Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 113:4 (Autumn, 2015).
Michael B. Ballard and Mark R. Cheathem, eds., Of Times and Race: Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek, in Journal of Southern History 80 (May, 2014).
Jaime Amanda Martinez, Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 122 (February, 2014).
Steve McQueen (director), 12 Years a Slave (2013, film), University of North Carolina Press Blog, (November 26, 2013).
Steven Spielberg (director), Lincoln (film), in The Civil War Monitor“Bookshelf,” (November 28, 2012).
Eric J. Wittenberg, Glory Enough For All: Sheridan’s Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station, in Civil War History 49 (December, 2003).
Noah Andre Trudeau, Like Men Of War: Black Troops In The Civil War, 1862-1865, in Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil War Society, 72 (February, 1999).
