Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era
Director of the Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of the Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer and President, which won the Lincoln Prize for 2000, and of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, which won the Lincoln Prize for 2005. His articles and essays have appeared in scholarly journals, and also in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and he has been featured on NPR and on Brian Lamb's BookNotes.
He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Society of Civil War Historians and the Union League of Philadelphia, and serves as a Director of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Lincoln Institute. He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1991-2), the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (1992-3), the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University (1994-5) and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (2002-3). Together with Patrick Allitt and Gary W. Gallagher, he team-taught The Teaching Company's new edition of its American History series, and is completing two new series in 2005 for The Teaching Company, Mister Lincoln, on the life of Abraham Lincoln, and The American Mind, on American intellectual history.
Contact Information:
Telephone: (717) 337-6569
Fax: (717) 337-6597
Mailing Address:
Dr. Allen C. Guelzo
Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era
Director of the Civil War Era Studies
Gettysburg College
300 North Washington Street
Campus Box 435
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Willing to Travel? Yes
Fee for Services? Yes
Lectures Offered:
Great Emancipator or Great Fixer?
Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas
Abraham Lincoln and the "Doctrine of Necessity"
The Eight Lies We Cheerfully Believe about Lincoln and Emancipation
Understanding Emancipation: Lincoln's Proclamation and the Overthrow of Slavery
How Abe Lincoln Lost the Black Vote: The Image of Lincoln in the African-American Mind
Apple of Gold, Picture of Silver: Abraham Lincoln, the Constitution and Liberty
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
A. Lincoln, Philosopher
Ten True Lies About Abraham Lincoln
Other Programs Offered:
Media Interview
Writing for Newspapers/Magazines
Writing for Scholarly Publications
