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| Allen Carl Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he serves as Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program and The Gettysburg Semester. | |||
| Guelzo was born in Yokohama, Japan, on February 2, 1953, the son of Lt. Carl Martin Guelzo, jnr. and Leila Kerrigan Guelzo (m. 1950). His forebears on his father’s side immigrated from Prussia in the 1870s, and on his mother’s side, he claimed ancestors in Ireland and Sweden. Carl Guelzo (1924-2003) was a veteran of World War II, enlisting fresh out of high school and ending the war as a sergeant; but after graduating in 1949 from the University of Pennsylvania, he re-entered the U.S. Army as an officer, and served first in the field artillery and then in transportation. After service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Guelzo retired in 1969, earned a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland, and taught economics at Catonsville Community College, Catonsville, MD, until disabled by a stroke in 1999. He was the author of Introduction to Logistics Management (1986) and Economics: Resource Allocation in a Market Economy (1994). | |||
| Allen Guelzo grew up in-and-around his father’s post assignments, from Ft. Eustis, in northern Virginia, to The Presidio, in Monterey, California. However, he spent his school years with his maternal grandparents in Springfield (Delaware county), Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. At Springfield High School (1967-71) he was a class president, drum major of the band, wrote for the school newspaper, and performed in most of the school’s musical organizations (under Dennis Lauffer and Luca Del Negro). | |||
| He attended Philadelphia Biblical University (BS, 1975) and Philadelphia Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1978), but went on from there to earn an MA and PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania (MA, 1979; PhD, 1986). He taught variously for Empire State College, Drexel University, and Philadelphia Theological Seminary, and joined the History department of Eastern University (St. Davids, PA) in 1991. He was the Grace F. Kea Professor of American History at Eastern, where he was also Moderator of the Faculty Senate (1996-98). In 1998, he designed, and implemented as Dean, the Templeton Honors College at Eastern. He joined the History department at Gettysburg College in 2004. | |||
| Guelzo’s principal specialty is American intellectual history, from 1750 to 1865. His doctoral dissertation, “The Unanswered Question: Jonathan Edwards’s ‘Freedom of the Will’ in Early American Religious Philosophy,” was published in 1989 as Edwards On the Will: A Century of American Philosophical Debate, 1750-1850, by Wesleyan University Press, and won an American Library Association Choice Award. A second book, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians, 1873-1930, won the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History from the American Society of Church History in 1994. In 1995, contributed a volume in the St. Martin’s Press American History textbook series, The Crisis of the American Republic: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Almost on a dare, he began work in 1996 on an ‘intellectual biography’ of Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999), which won The Lincoln Prize for 2000 and the 2000 Book Prize of the Abraham Lincoln Institute. He followed this with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004), which became the first two-time winner of The Lincoln Prize (for 2005) and the Book Prize of the Lincoln Institute. In addition to these books, he has produced editions of Manning Ferguson Force’s From Fort Henry to Corinth (1989) and Josiah Gilbert Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln (1998), as well as co-editing a volume of essays on Jonathan Edwards, Edwards In Our Time: Jonathan Edwards and the Shaping of American Religion (with Sang Hyun Lee, 1999) and The New England Theology: From Jonathan Edwards to Edwards Amasa Park, an anthology of primary sources on ‘the New England theology’ from 1750 to 1850, with Douglas R. Sweeney (2006). | |||
| Guelzo was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1991-92), a Visiting Research Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1992-93), a Fellow of the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard University (1994-95), and a Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics, Princeton University (2002-03). He was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities in 2006. | |||
| Guelzo married Debra Kay Hotchkiss in Metamora, Michigan, in 1981. | |||
| Guelzo, born in Japan, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a M.Div. from Philadelphia Theological Seminary and an honorary doctorate in history from Lincoln College. | |||
| He is the first two-time winner of the ], for his books ''Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President''(]) and ''Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America''(]). Guelzo formerly held the position of Dean at The Templeton Honors College at ], where he was the Grace Ferguson Kea Professor of American History. Previously, he was a professor of history at the Philadelphia Theological Seminary. | |||
| Guelzo's other publications include "Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Philosophical Debate" (1989), "The Crisis of the American Republic: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction" (1995), and an edition of Josiah G. Holland’s "Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1998). | |||
| For the Teaching Company, he produced a twelve-part lecture series on Abraham Lincoln, which appeared in 2005 and is available on DVD. | |||
| He was also a guest on Brian Lamb's "Booknotes" program following the publication of "Redeemer President." | |||
| Currently, he is at work on an eagerly awaited study of the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates. | |||
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Allen Carl Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he serves as Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program and The Gettysburg Semester. Guelzo was born in Yokohama, Japan, on February 2, 1953, the son of Lt. Carl Martin Guelzo, jnr. and Leila Kerrigan Guelzo (m. 1950). His forebears on his father’s side immigrated from Prussia in the 1870s, and on his mother’s side, he claimed ancestors in Ireland and Sweden. Carl Guelzo (1924-2003) was a veteran of World War II, enlisting fresh out of high school and ending the war as a sergeant; but after graduating in 1949 from the University of Pennsylvania, he re-entered the U.S. Army as an officer, and served first in the field artillery and then in transportation. After service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Guelzo retired in 1969, earned a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland, and taught economics at Catonsville Community College, Catonsville, MD, until disabled by a stroke in 1999. He was the author of Introduction to Logistics Management (1986) and Economics: Resource Allocation in a Market Economy (1994). Allen Guelzo grew up in-and-around his father’s post assignments, from Ft. Eustis, in northern Virginia, to The Presidio, in Monterey, California. However, he spent his school years with his maternal grandparents in Springfield (Delaware county), Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. At Springfield High School (1967-71) he was a class president, drum major of the band, wrote for the school newspaper, and performed in most of the school’s musical organizations (under Dennis Lauffer and Luca Del Negro). He attended Philadelphia Biblical University (BS, 1975) and Philadelphia Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1978), but went on from there to earn an MA and PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania (MA, 1979; PhD, 1986). He taught variously for Empire State College, Drexel University, and Philadelphia Theological Seminary, and joined the History department of Eastern University (St. Davids, PA) in 1991. He was the Grace F. Kea Professor of American History at Eastern, where he was also Moderator of the Faculty Senate (1996-98). In 1998, he designed, and implemented as Dean, the Templeton Honors College at Eastern. He joined the History department at Gettysburg College in 2004. Guelzo’s principal specialty is American intellectual history, from 1750 to 1865. His doctoral dissertation, “The Unanswered Question: Jonathan Edwards’s ‘Freedom of the Will’ in Early American Religious Philosophy,” was published in 1989 as Edwards On the Will: A Century of American Philosophical Debate, 1750-1850, by Wesleyan University Press, and won an American Library Association Choice Award. A second book, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians, 1873-1930, won the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History from the American Society of Church History in 1994. In 1995, contributed a volume in the St. Martin’s Press American History textbook series, The Crisis of the American Republic: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Almost on a dare, he began work in 1996 on an ‘intellectual biography’ of Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999), which won The Lincoln Prize for 2000 and the 2000 Book Prize of the Abraham Lincoln Institute. He followed this with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004), which became the first two-time winner of The Lincoln Prize (for 2005) and the Book Prize of the Lincoln Institute. In addition to these books, he has produced editions of Manning Ferguson Force’s From Fort Henry to Corinth (1989) and Josiah Gilbert Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln (1998), as well as co-editing a volume of essays on Jonathan Edwards, Edwards In Our Time: Jonathan Edwards and the Shaping of American Religion (with Sang Hyun Lee, 1999) and The New England Theology: From Jonathan Edwards to Edwards Amasa Park, an anthology of primary sources on ‘the New England theology’ from 1750 to 1850, with Douglas R. Sweeney (2006). Guelzo was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1991-92), a Visiting Research Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1992-93), a Fellow of the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard University (1994-95), and a Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics, Princeton University (2002-03). He was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities in 2006. Guelzo married Debra Kay Hotchkiss in Metamora, Michigan, in 1981.
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