Glenn W. LaFantasie
(Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History)

Director, Center for the Study of the Civil War in the West
Ph.D., Brown University, 2005
Fields: Nineteenth-Century America, Civil War and Reconstruction, Old South
Office: 238 Cherry Hall
Phone: (270) 745-4950
Email: glenn.lafantasie@wku.edu

Scholarly interests:
Civil War social, political, and military history, with a particular focus on Gettysburg and Abraham Lincoln; slavery and antislavery; Southern cultural history; the legacy of the American Revolution

Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Current Projects:
Twilight at Little Round Top (2005)

Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates (2006)

Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground (forthcoming, 2008).

Lincoln and Grant (under contract).

The Center for the Study of the Civil War in the West:
The Center is still in its planning stages, but, as its first director, I am working closely with President Gary A. Ransdell, Dean David Lee of the Potter College of Arts and Letters, the Department of History faculty, and other interested parties at Western Kentucky University and in Bowling Green, to develop a wide range of programs and projects that will highlight—but not be limited to—the Civil War in the Western Theater and in Kentucky.  In time, the Center will offer scholarly seminars, public institutes, workshops for secondary teachers, tours of battlefields and other Civil War historic sites, publications, and other programs.  One of the first steps will be to launch a web site for the Center.  The Center will also serve as a clearing house for Western Kentucky University’s plans to celebrate in 2009 the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky’s native son.  The Center will sponsor a major symposium, open to the public, to celebrate the Lincoln bicentennial:  “Lincoln at 200: The Man, the Myth, the Monument.”