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Evan Portman

Graduate Instructor

Categorized As

Role: Graduate Instructor,

Nineteenth-Century America

Major Field
Nineteenth-Century American History

Minor Fields
Public History, Modern European History, Twentieth-Century American History


Advisor
Jason Phillips


Research Interests
Mr. Portman's research interests include German American, Catholic, and Pennsylvania connections to the Civil War.

Courses Taught

  • Hist 152: Growth of the American Nation to 1865

Publications
Review of High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Debunking the myths and stigma surrounding late-war Union army recruits, by Edwin P. Rutan II, Civil War Monitor, (September 2024)
“A Question of Conscience: Benedictine Monks Go to War,” in Gathered FragmentsA Publication of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. 33, (Fall 2023), 4-11. 
“A Tale of Two Monks: Saint Vincent in the Civil War,” in Conversatio: A Journal in the Tradition of Catholic, Benedictine, and Liberal Education, Vol. 3, (2023), 15-34. 
“A Central Figure of Transcendingly Absorbing Interest: The Wilkesons at Gettysburg” in The Summer of ’63: Gettysburg, (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2021), 78-81.
“The Priest, the Colonel, and the Cowboy’s Cousin,” in Westmoreland History, Vol. 8, No. 1, (Spring 2023), 4-10. 

"An Ideal Place: The Vagabonds’ Sojourn in Westmoreland County,” Westmoreland History, Vol. 29, No. 2, (Fall 2024), 4-12. 


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