2002 Klement Lecture:
"'Touched with Fire?': Two Philadelphia Novelists Remember the Civil War"

J. MATTHEW GALLMAN
October 21, 7:30 PM

J. Matthew Gallman is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of the Civil War Studies program at Gettysburg College.  He is the author of many books and articles on the Civil War era, including Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855 (2000); The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (1994), and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (1990).  He is general editor of The Civil War Almanac (2002).  His Klement Lecture is drawn in part from his research on the nineteenth century writer, lecturer, and political activist Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, who is the subject of a forthcoming biography.