Louis Gerteis

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Louis Gerteis

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Louis S. Gerteis is a professor of history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he has taught at UMSL since 1969. Gerteis specializes in the history of the Civil War Era. He is the author of four books and numerous articles and book chapters. Among his recent publications are Civil War St. Louis (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001) and The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2012). Among his recent journal publications is "New Madrid Bend: The Most Important Civil War Battle in Missouri" in Gateway: The Magazine of the Missouri History Museum, vol. 31, pp. 11-21, 2011.

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Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

… → 1969

MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

… → 1966

BA, Antioch College

… → 1965

External positions

Visiting Fellow, University of East Anglia

Jan 1 1984 → Jan 1 1985

Research Fellow, University of Missouri

Jan 1 1970 → Jan 1 1995

Stanley J. Kahrl Visiting Fellow in Theatre History, Harvard University

… → Jan 1 1991

Research Exchange Fellow, Missouri Historical Society

… → Jan 1 1993

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth-century United States
  • Slavery and Emancipation
  • Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Historical Method
  • Archival Research
  • Content Analysis
  • Museum Studies
  • Blackface Minstrelsy
  • Construction of Race in Nineteenth-century America

Disciplines

  • History
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