Dr. J. Matthew Gallman received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986 and is currently 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 (University of North Carolina Press, 2000); The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (Ivan Dee 1994) and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1990; paperback edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). He is general editor of The Civil War Almanac (Agincourt Press). He is currently writing a biography of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, one of the authors featured in his lecture.