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Gary W. Gallagher is known for his scholarship on the American Civil War, particularly his examination of why Confederate and Union soldiers fought and how popular culture has shaped public memory of the conflict. He has held the John L. Nau III Professorship in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia since 1998.
Gallagher received his undergraduate degree from Adams State College in 1972. He then completed graduate study at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a Master of Arts in 1977 and a doctorate in 1982.
Gallagher's authored books include The Confederate War (1997), Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (1998), Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (2008), The Union War (2011), and The Enduring Civil War (2022). His first book, Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General, appeared in 1985.
Gallagher's lecture series, titled The American Civil War, consists of 48 lectures of 30 minutes each, totaling 24 hours of content. The series is available as video through The Great Courses and as audio through Audible.
Gallagher's books have won multiple prizes. The Confederate War won the Laney Prize in 1998. The Union War won the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies in 2011 and the Tom Watson Brown Book Prize and the Laney Prize in 2012. In 2021, the Lincoln Forum awarded him the Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement.
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2008, examines how Hollywood films and popular art have shaped and distorted public understanding of the American Civil War.