JCWE Conversation with Lesley J. Gordon

Lesley J. Gordon is Professor and Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama. She is a military historian well-known for her biographies of George Pickett and also of the 16th Connecticut, as well as numerous edited collections. She chats with JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever about her latest book, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War, which was published with Cambridge Press in 2025.