Assistant
Professor,
Visiting
Lecturer,
UCLA Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, 2003.
Nominated
for the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003.
UCLA
History Department Research and Travel Grant, 2002-2003.
National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Henry E. Huntington Library,
2001-2002.
Chair’s
Outstanding Teacher/Mentor Award, UCLA History Department, 2000-2001.
Mary Wollstonecraft Dss.
Prize,
Woodrow
Wilson Research Grant in Women’s Studies, 1991.
Unsentimental
Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1998).
“The War for the Common Soldier,” The
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Series, University of
Volume co-editor, with Alice Fahs, “The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture,”
Volume
Editor, “Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869,” in Encyclopedia of
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause” Frank L. Klement Lectures, No. 12, James Marten, Series Editor, Marquette University Press, 2003.
“The Funeral of
“New
England Cavalier: Charles Russell Lowell in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley
Campaign, ed., Gary W. Gallagher in The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign,
University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.
“U.S. Grant, Historian,” in The
Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, University of
“Give This Man Work: The
“A Sacrifice We Owed: The Shaw Family and the
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts,” in Hope and Glory: Essays on
the Legacy of the Fifty-Fourth
Author of 40 entries in “Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869,” Volume 5, Joan Waugh, Editor, in the Encyclopedia of U.S. History, Gary B. Nash, General Editor, Facts on File, Inc., January 2003.
“Scientific Charity
Movement” and “Josephine Shaw Lowell,” entries for the Encyclopedia of
Social Welfare, Sage Publications, forthcoming.
“Charity
Organization Movement,” entry for the Oxford Companion to United States
History, Fall 2000.
Around
the World with General Grant by John Russell Young, abridged, edited, and
introduced by Michael Fellman, Civil War History,
forthcoming.
The
Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five
Abolitionist Lecturers by Anna M. Speicher, Church History,
December, 2002.
Race
and
The
South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the
Civil War
by William W. Freehling, Civil War History,
June, 2002.
Grant by Jean Edward Smith, Civil
War Times Illustrated, June 2001.
Civil
War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and
Women’s Politics in Transition by Judith Ann Giesburg, American
Historical Review, June, 2001.
Not
War But Murder by Ernest B. Furguson, The Virginia
Quarterly Review, Summer, 2001.
Ulysses
S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 by Brooks D. Simpson,
Civil War History, Spring, 2001.
Bloody
Promenade: Reflections of a Civil War
Conceived
in
Letter
from
Thaddeus
Stevens, Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian by Hans L. Trefousse, Labor
History, January 1999.
The
Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston by Albert J. Von Frank, H-Net
Reviews, July 1999.
“Union Hero or Drunken Butcher?: The Troubled Legacy of General U.S. Grant,” sponsored by the Society of Fellows, Huntington Library, November 12, 2003.
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause,” Frank L. Klement Lectures: Alternative Views of the Sectional Conflict, delivered on October 27, 2003, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis.
“Charles Russell Lowell and the Shenandoah
Valley Campaign of 1864,”
Leader,
July 18-20, 2003, East Coast Field Trip, Civil War Portion, Teachers Institute
of Southern California Consortium, Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Office
of Education and the National Center for History in the Schools, July 18th
at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, July 19th, at Antietam,
Maryland, and July 20th, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
“Reconstruction,” Teachers Institute of the Southern
California Consortium, sponsored by Los Angeles County Office of Education and
the
“The Civil War,”
“
“Women in the Civil War,” UCLA History-Geography Project, March 13, 2003.
“Reshaping the Memory of a Union Icon: The
Rise and Fall of
“Civil War,” presentation for the Los Angeles Unified School District Professional Development Program for U.S. History Teachers, National Center for History in the Schools, August 2, 2002.
“The Pleasures and Pitfalls
of Writing Historical Biography,”
“Research and Reflections,”
“Grant’s Death and the Pageantry of Woe,” annual meeting of the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 25-30, 2001.
“Winslow Homer’s Civil War,” Humanitas lecture sponsored by the Los Angeles Educational Partnership and LACMA, UCLA’s Clark Library, June 23, 2001.
“Women
in Peace and War: A Case Study,” Symposium, “Hearth and Home, Family and
Children, 1850-1875,”
“Bonnet
Brigades: Women and The Civil War,” Scholar-Teacher Symposium, March 1, 2001,
University of California at Los Angeles, History-Geography Project.
“Why Study the Civil
War?” UCLA Summer Invitational Institute, University of California, Los
Angeles, History-Geography Project, July 19, 2000.
“U.S.
Grant, Myth and Memory,” The Ulysses S. Grant Association Annual Meeting,
Cincinnati, Ohio, April 27-29, 2000.
“Reunion
is Perfect: Mississippi Remembers U.S. Grant,” Fourth Biennial Historic Natchez
Conference, Natchez, Mississippi, February 16-18, 2000.
“The
Citizen-Soldier of the Civil War,” Scholar-Teacher Symposium, January 20, 2000,
University of California, Los Angeles, History-Geography Project.
“Josephine
Shaw Lowell and the founding of the American Welfare State,” keynote address,
The UCLA Affiliates Scholarship Dinner, November 17, 1999.
“It
Was A Sacrifice We Owed: The Shaw Family and the 54th
Massachusetts,” History Bruins Lecture Series, February 25, 1999.
“The
Legacy of Josephine Shaw Lowell,” keynote address, Community Service Society
Annual Awards Dinner, May 13, 1998, New York City.
Convener
(with Professor Alice Fahs, UC Irvine and Professor
Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Civil War Conference, The Henry E.
Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Oct. 17 and 18, 2003.
Co-Convener (with Professor Alice Fahs, UC Irvine), “The
Memory of the Civil War in American Culture,” The Henry E. Huntington Library,
San Marino, California. November 5 and 6, 1999
Paper, “The Shaw Family and Civil War Memory,” Arizona State University History Conference, February 14-15, 2003.
Comment, “Abe Lincoln and His Bible: His Second Inaugural Address in Culture Perspective, by Professor Ronald C. White Jr., Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA, public lecture, October 16, 2002.
Comment, “Women Respond to War,” Western Association of Women Historians Annual Meeting, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, April 20, 2002.
Paper, “A Great General Can Be A Baby President: U.S. Grants’ Presidential Legacy Reconsidered,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 3-6, 2002.
Comment, “Looking Back at the Civil War with Varina Davis and U.S. Grant,” The Society of Civil War Historians Banquet, Southern Historical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 15-19, 2001.
Paper, “Grief as Widespread as the Union: The Southern
Reaction to the death of Ulysses S. Grant,” Southern Historical Association,
Louisville, Kentucky, November 8-11, 2000.
Paper,
“History and Autobiography in The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant,” The
Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, Conference at The Henry E.
Huntington Library, San Marino, California, November 5-7, 1999.
Paper,
“A New Look at the Writing of The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant,”
American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Ninety-second Annual
Meeting, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, August 10, 1999.
Discussant,
“What Do Military and Cultural Histories of the Civil War Have to Say to Each
Other?” Roundtable, Organization of American Historians 1999, Toronto, Canada,
April 2, 1999.
Paper,
“The Funeral of U.S. Grant: Themes in Nationalism and Reconciliation,” American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 11, 1998.
Paper, “Give This Man
Work!: The Charity Organization Society of the City of New York and the
Depression of 1893,” National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, Ohio, June 3, 1997.
“A
Sacrifice We Owed: The Shaw Family and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts
Regiment,” National Park Service Conference, “The Monument to Robert Gould Shaw
and Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment: History and Meaning,” Boston,
Massachusetts, May 29, 1997.
“Josephine Shaw Lowell and the Charity
Organization Society of the City of New York: The First Ten Years,” Social
Science History Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 6, 1993.
Interviewee,
“Cold Mountain: the novel, the movie and the history,” Documentary, Greystone Communications, September 12, 2003.
Interviewee,
“Women Civil War Soldiers,” Documentary, Global Sciences Productions, March 10,
2003
Manuscript
Review, Oxford University Press, June 2003
Member,
Hubbel Prize Committee, Civil War History,
2002-3
Member,
Editorial Advisory Board, The Civil War in the North Series, The Kent State
University Press, Lesley J. Gordon, Editor, April 2003-
Manuscript
Reviewer, Bedford Press, December 2002
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Panel, Collaborative Research and Scholarly Editions Program, December 2002
Manuscript
Review, Bedford Press, June 2002
Manuscript
Review, University of Nebraska Press, April 2002
Member,
Hubbel Prize Committee, Civil War History,
2001
Member,
Lincoln Prize Committee, Gettysburg College, 2001-2002
Manuscript
Review, University of North Carolina Press, June 2001
Manuscript
Review, Ohio University Press, March, 2001
Interviewee
for PBS “The American Experience,” U.S. Grant Documentary, in Boston, April, 2000
Proposal
Evaluator, Civil War Textbook, Oxford University Press, November 2000
Member,
Editorial Board, Civil War History, March 2000-
Member,
Board of the Society of Civil War Historians, March 2000-
Manuscript
Review, Civil War History, December 1999
Member,
National Endowment for the Humanities Review Panel, Collaborative Research
proposals, U.S. and Latin American History, January 1999
Advisor, “The Abolitionists,” documentary written and
produced by Arthur Holbrook Productions, Inc., 1996-2003