Mark Grimsley
Associate Professor
History
From July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2010 Mark Grimsley will be the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army War College.
Contact information for Mark
Grimsley at the U.S. Army War College:
Department of National Security and Strategy
U.S. Army War College
122 Forbes Avenue
Carlisle, PA 17013
717.245.3306
christopher.grimsley@gmail.com
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/grimsley1/
Education
B.A., History, The Ohio State University (1982)
M.A., War Studies, Kings College London (1985)
Ph.D., History, The Ohio State University (1992)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Grimsley’s teaching and research interests include 19th century American history and military history, with a specialization in the Civil War era. Two of the courses he has taught at the Army War College include "American Insurgencies: The Struggle for Black Liberation in the South, 1865-1965" and "Theory of War and Strategy."
Selected Publications
Civilians in the Path of War, with Clifford J. Rogers (University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
The Collapse of the Confederacy, with Brooks D. Simpson (University of Nebraska Press, 2001)
The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, edited with Todd D. Miller (University of Tennessee Press, 2000)
Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide, with Brooks D. Simpson (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Honors and Awards
Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History, U.S. Army War College (2008–10)
Cliopatria Award for Best Individual Blog for Blog Them Out of the Stone Age, weblog associated with the military history website warhistorian.org (2005)
Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, The Ohio State University (1999)
Ben M. Jones III Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, College of Humanities, The Ohio State University (1997)
Lincoln Prize for Best Book on the Civil War, Lincoln and Soldiers Institute, for The Hard Hand of War (1996)
Clio Award for Distinguished Teaching in History, Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (1994)
Mershon Projects
The War for the American South, 1865-1968
The History of War in Global Perspective
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