Background
Gillette, William was born on March 2, 1933 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Samuel William and Lillian (Abeson) Gillette.
(Retreat from Reconstruction is a clarifying, comprehensiv...)
Retreat from Reconstruction is a clarifying, comprehensive analysis of the course of Reconstruction during the 1870s, a decade that provided the true test for the political programs of the Republicans. This award-winning study interweaves events in the South with the political developments in the North that eventually brought about the withdrawal of support from the program.
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( This political history of New Jersey during the Civil W...)
This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in particular its relationship to the border states. William Gillette argues that there is little evidence supporting the idea that New Jersey's residents were pro-southern before the war, or even antiwar during it, although attitudes toward the abolition of slavery were more ambivalent. The perspectives Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities, state identity, and our understanding of the interrelationships between New Jersey's national, regional, and state developments. Gillette takes a broader view of the politics of the Civil War as he touches on the economy, geography, demography, immigration, nativism, conscription, and law. The result is a pioneering history of New Jersey that deepens our understanding of the Civil War.
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Gillette, William was born on March 2, 1933 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Samuel William and Lillian (Abeson) Gillette.
Bachelor of Science, Georgetown University, 1955; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1956; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1958-1959; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1963.
Instructor Ohio State University, 1962-1964. Acting assistant professor University Connecticut, Storrs, 1965-1966. Assistant professor Brooklyn College City University of New York, 1966-1967.
Associate professor Rutgers University, 1967-1981, professor, since 1981. Fulbright professor University Salzburg (Austria), 1982-1983, Japan Women's University and Tsuda College, 1997-1998, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2008. With Jersey Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, New Jersey.
With Army of the United States, 1956-1958.
(Retreat from Reconstruction is a clarifying, comprehensiv...)
( This political history of New Jersey during the Civil W...)
(Book by Gillette, Professor William)
Served with Army of the United States, 1956-1958. Member American Association of University Professors, American History Association, New Jersey History Society, Advisers for New Jersey History, Western History Association.
Married Elisabeth L. Janes, May 23, 1971. Children: Scott Douglas, Wendy Elisabeth.