Jim Downs

Jim Downs is an American historian. He is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Studies and History at Gettysburg College. ^[1] Downs is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. He earned his PhD at Columbia University under the direction of Eric Foner. He received his BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, his MA in American Studies from Columbia University, where he also earned his M.Phil in History. With the support ^[2] of the Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship, he returned to graduate school, where he studied medical anthropology, global health, and epidemiology at Harvard University. ^[3]

Books

• Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (2021) ^[4]
• Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (2016) ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
• Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012) ^{[10] [11]}

References

1. "Jim Downs - Organization of American Historians". April 24, 2023.
2. https://www.courant.com/2015/04/24/connecticut-college-history-professor-awarded-216k-research-fellowship-from-andrew-w-mellon-foundation/
3. https://www.mellon.org/article/new-directions-fellowships-recipients
4. Dorner, Zachary (August 29, 2022). "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs (review)" . Journal of the Early Republic. 42 (2): 320–323. doi:10.1353/jer.2022.0044 – via Project MUSE.
5. Scott, Whitney (March 1, 2016). "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation". Booklist. 112 (13): 33–34 – via go.gale.com.
6. "'Stand By Me' — The History Of Gay Liberation Isn't What You Think It Is". www.wbur.org.
7. Hollands, Joshua (July 29, 2017). "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation. By Jim Downs. Basic Books. 2016. vii + 261pp. $27.99.: REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES" . History. 102 (351): 541–543. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12450 – via CrossRef.
8. "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation, by Jim Downs". Times Higher Education (THE). May 19, 2016.
9. "'Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation,' by Jim Downs". Sfgate.com. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
10. Long, Gretchen (August 29, 2014). "Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs (review)" . Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 88 (2): 392–393. doi:10.1353/bhm.2014.0044 – via Project MUSE.
11. "Jim Downs, Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 280. Cloth $29.95. Paper $21.95". The Journal of African American History. 100 (1).

External links

• Jim Downs | C-SPAN.org