Barbara A Gannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1239162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara A Gannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gannon |
| SIGNATURE | GANNON B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Physician Soldier
Much of the focus of military historians and the broader military-interested public is on combat units and soldiers and not on support units such as a station hospital. Even when scholars and others are interested in doctors, they focus on their combat experience. This attention may be due to the place of the movie and television show M.A.S.H. (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) in American popular culture. Moreover, most Americans failed to understa…
No Common Ground
Reviewed by: No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox Barbara A. Gannon (bio) No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. By Karen L. Cox. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Cloth, $24.00.) The people who lived and died during and immediately after the American Civil War had no notion that the battle over the war's memory wo…
Andrew F. Lang, A Contest of Civilizations
First Bull Run/Manassas
This chapter examines the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, and argues that the Civil War’s first battle represented the last battle of antebellum military cultures of free and slave states. Before the Civil War, Americans refused to maintain a large U.S. Army. In the antebellum era, states organized local militia units based on their perception of internal and external threats; fear of slave revolt prompted sl…
Americans Remember Their Civil War
This book provides readers with an overview of how Americans have commemorated and remembered the Civil War. Most Americans are aware of statues or other outdoor art dedicated to the memory of the Civil War. Indeed, the erection of Civil War monuments permanently changed the landscape of U.S. public parks and cemeteries by the turn of the century. But monuments are only one way that the Civil War is memorialized. This book describes the different…
Troubled Refuge
Among the most contentious political issues today is the status of war refugees. Most Americans assume that this is a twentieth-century issue—tragic, albeit peripheral—that was the inevitable result of modern warfare. In Troubled Refuge Chandra Manning demonstrates that refugees were central to the course and consequence of the nineteenth-century Civil War. Civil War refugees have been studied, but scholars and others used the term refugees to de…
America's Corporal
Journal Article America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace Get access James Marten. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav332 Published: 01 June 2015
Weirding the War
Frequently, books claim to challenge the master narrative of the Civil War in one way or another. Rarely do you find a book that challenges the very notion of a master narrative. Weirding the War, a collection of essays edited by Stephen Berry, claims to do just that. “Weirding” is, according to Berry, “the historians' equivalent of ‘freakonomics’ (the use of economic theory to investigate atypical subjects in the hope of yielding fresh insights …
Lee Moves North
Troubled Refuge
Among the most contentious political issues today is the status of war refugees. Most Americans assume that this is a twentieth-century issue—tragic, albeit peripheral—that was the inevitable result of modern warfare. In Troubled Refuge Chandra Manning demonstrates that refugees were central to the course and consequence of the nineteenth-century Civil War. Civil War refugees have been studied, but scholars and others used the term refugees to de…
Lee Moves North
Weirding the War
Frequently, books claim to challenge the master narrative of the Civil War in one way or another. Rarely do you find a book that challenges the very notion of a master narrative. Weirding the War, a collection of essays edited by Stephen Berry, claims to do just that. “Weirding” is, according to Berry, “the historians' equivalent of ‘freakonomics’ (the use of economic theory to investigate atypical subjects in the hope of yielding fresh insights …
America's Corporal
Journal Article America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace Get access James Marten. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav332 Published: 01 June 2015
Americans Remember Their Civil War
This book provides readers with an overview of how Americans have commemorated and remembered the Civil War. Most Americans are aware of statues or other outdoor art dedicated to the memory of the Civil War. Indeed, the erection of Civil War monuments permanently changed the landscape of U.S. public parks and cemeteries by the turn of the century. But monuments are only one way that the Civil War is memorialized. This book describes the different…
Troubled Refuge
Among the most contentious political issues today is the status of war refugees. Most Americans assume that this is a twentieth-century issue—tragic, albeit peripheral—that was the inevitable result of modern warfare. In Troubled Refuge Chandra Manning demonstrates that refugees were central to the course and consequence of the nineteenth-century Civil War. Civil War refugees have been studied, but scholars and others used the term refugees to de…
First Bull Run/Manassas
This chapter examines the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, and argues that the Civil War’s first battle represented the last battle of antebellum military cultures of free and slave states. Before the Civil War, Americans refused to maintain a large U.S. Army. In the antebellum era, states organized local militia units based on their perception of internal and external threats; fear of slave revolt prompted sl…
No Common Ground
Reviewed by: No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox Barbara A. Gannon (bio) No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. By Karen L. Cox. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Cloth, $24.00.) The people who lived and died during and immediately after the American Civil War had no notion that the battle over the war's memory wo…
Andrew F. Lang, A Contest of Civilizations
Physician Soldier
Much of the focus of military historians and the broader military-interested public is on combat units and soldiers and not on support units such as a station hospital. Even when scholars and others are interested in doctors, they focus on their combat experience. This attention may be due to the place of the movie and television show M.A.S.H. (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) in American popular culture. Moreover, most Americans failed to understa…
History (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Spanish Civil War (5 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)