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Lesley J. Gordon

 

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Lesley J. Gordon New Lecturer for 2009-2010
University of Akron

Lesley J. Gordon is professor of history at the University of Akron where she teaches courses in the Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. military history, and the Early Republic. Gordon is author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (1998); coeditor of Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives (2001) and Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (2005); and coauthor of This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2003). She is currently completing a study of the Civil War's lasting effects on a northern regiment.

Lecture topics:

  • George E. Pickett in Life and Legend
  • So Much Suffering: The 16th Connecticut in War and Captivity
  • Intimate Strategies: Civil War Military Commanders and Their Wives
  • Cowardice and the American Civil War

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