Gary W. Gallagher, Author at HistoryNet

Parisians reading newspapers

The American Civil War Through the Eyes of the French

by Gary W. Gallagher2/16/20232/1/2023

The French newspaper Le Temps provided a fresh perspective of the American conflict.

Winfield Scott in Mexican War

He Was One of the Greatest Soldiers in U.S. History. So Why Doesn’t Winfield Scott Get Any Respect?

by Gary W. Gallagher11/17/202211/17/2022

Woman at writing table

A View From the North: Union Women’s Wartime Memoirs

by Gary W. Gallagher8/31/20228/31/2022

Brooks attacks Sumner in the Senate chamber

Are We on the Eve of Another Civil War?

by Gary W. Gallagher5/11/20225/10/2022

Love Civil War Research? Thank These Union Veterans and Their Books

by Gary W. Gallagher2/9/2022

The Seven Days Campaign — A Turning Point More Important than Antietam?

by Gary W. Gallagher12/1/202111/22/2021

Should Pope be a Punchline?

by Gary W. Gallagher10/6/20219/29/2021

Ken Burns’s ‘Civil War’ PBS Series Is 30 — Does It Still Measure Up?

by Gary W. Gallagher8/27/20216/17/2022

‘Old Brains’ and ‘Granny Lee’: Civil War Soldiers Often Gave Their Generals Pointed Nicknames

by Gary W. Gallagher3/31/20214/26/2023

Active Participants: African Americans and the Reconstruction of Democracy in America

by Gary W. Gallagher2/3/20212/23/2021