Louis
S. Gerteis
Dr. Louis
Gerteis is chair of the Department of History
and the author of three books and numerous
articles. His most recent publications are Civil
War St. Louis (University of Kansas press, 2001)
and "'An Outrage on Humanity': Martial Law and
Military Prisons in St. Louis During the Civil
War," Missouri Historical Review (july 2002),
302-22. Gerteis is also the director of the
Virtual City Project, a website that contains
three dminsional, interactive models of St.
Louis for each decade from 1850 to 1950.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University
of Wisconsin, 1969.
PREVIOUS FACULTY
POSITIONS
Assistant Professor,
1969-1974; Associate Professor, 1974-1987,
Department of History, University of
Missouri-St. Louis.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
Nineteenth
Century United States, Slavery and Emancipation,
Civil War and Reconstruction, The Virtual City
Project
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
From Contraband to
Freedman: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks:
1861-1865 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1973).
"Salmon
P. Chase, Radicalism, and the Politics of
Emancipation, 1861‑1864," Journal of
American History (June 1973),
42‑62.
Morality and Utility in
American Antislavery Reform (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1987).
[Introduction reprinted in Lawrence B. Goodheart and
Hugh Hawkins, eds., Problems in American
Civilization. The Abolitionists: Means, Ends and
Motovation (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and
Company, 1995), 119-25.]
"Slavery and Hard Times:
Morality and Utility in American Antislavery
Reform," Civil War History (December 1983),
316‑31. [Reprinted in John R. McKivigan, ed.,
The American Abolitionist Movement: A Collection of
Scholarly Articles Illustrating its History
(Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1999), 40-55.]
“Blackface Minstrelsy and the
Construction of Race in Nineteenth Century America,"
in David W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson, eds., Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race
in the Civil War Era (Kent, OH: Kent State
University Press, 1997), 79-104. [Republished by
University Publications of America on their website,
Access to African American Sources.
Civil War St. Louis
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001).
“’A Friend of the Enemy’:
Federal Efforts to Suppress Disloyalty in Civil War
St. Louis During,” Missouri Historical Review,
XCVI (April 2002), 165-87.
“’An Outrage to Humanity’:
Martial Law and Military Prisons in Civil War St.
Louis During,” Missouri Historical Review,
XCVI (July 2002), 302-22.
Four entries in John A. Garraty,
editor, American National Biography
(Oxford University Press: New York, 1999);
Five entries in Stanley I. Kutler, ed., Dictionary of American History (Charles
Scribner’s Sons: New York, 2002).
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND
AWARDS
Fellowship, American
Philosophical Society, 1974, 1990.
Stanley J. Kahrl
Visiting Fellow in Theatre History, Harvard Theatre
Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University,
Fall 1991.
Research Fellowship, University
of Missouri Research Board, 1994-95.
Principal Investigator,
Information Technology Grants, 1997, 1998.
Participant, Missouri Department
of Elementary and Secondary Education, “Goals 2000”
Grant, 1998-2001.
Director, Virtual City Project,
National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001-2004.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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“Representing a Body of Knowledge in
Three-Dimensional Interactive Space.”
Paper/Presentation at the International
Conference on the Social Impact of Information
Technologies, St. Louis, MO, October 12-14,
1998.
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“The
Dred Scott Case.” Paper presented for the
National Park Service at the Old Court House,
St. Louis, Missouri, March 1999.
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Paper/presentation, “Shaping
the Authentic: Vernacular Theater in the United
States, 1815-1850,” at a panel discussion series
on “Henry Shaw in His Times and Beyond,”
sponsored by the Missouri Botanical Garden, the
Missouri Historical Society and Tower Grove
Park, St. Louis, October 10, 2000.
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Chair and Comments, “Civil
War Era Reform,” Twenty Third Annual Mid-America
Conference on History, September 21, 2001,
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.