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| is | Historian | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 1973 | |
| Age | 52 years |
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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.
Books
- Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (2021)
- Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (2016)
- Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)