J. Matthew Gallman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. An authority on the American Civil War, he is the author of Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855; The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front; and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War.

"A welcome addition to the literature on nineteenth-century women who successfully challenged gender conventions to carve out unconventional but highly regarded places for themselves in American public life."--Sylvia D. Hoffert The Journal of American History

"Gallman has made an outstanding contribution to our picture of nineteenth-century gender politics and culture and the pivotal place of Anna Dickinson in that world."--Nina Silber, Civil War History

"America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson does full justice to one of the most remarkable figures in American history, Anna Dickinson, an orator who, as a very young woman, spoke in behalf of the Republican Part during the Civil War and dazzled her contemporaries."--Glenna Matthews, The Journal of Southern History

"Gallman's elegantly written and deeply researched biography reveals the complicated life of an important historical figure...Dickinson's story, varied, tragic, and compellingly narrated, contains much that will be fascinating to historians of the mid-nineteenth century."--American Historical Review