Megan VanGorder
Assistant Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 301
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursdays, 12-1:30
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Biography
Megan VanGorder is an Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University.
Current Courses
HIS 290.001 History-Social Science Teaching Methodology I
HIS 290.002 History-Social Science Teaching Methodology I
HIS 290.003 History-Social Science Teaching Methodology I
HIS 300.003 Senior Seminar In History
Teaching Interests & Areas
History and Social Sciences Education, Illinois, Social Medicine, Nineteenth Century US, Women's History
Research Interests & Areas
Nineteenth Century U.S. Social Histories
Microhistories
Place-based Histories
Illinois History
PhD History
Nothern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois
MA History
Adams State University, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
BA History
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
Book Review
The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State by Elizabeth Garner Masarik (review)
Megan VanGorder.
(2025), 15, 393-396, 10.1353/cwe.2025.a968370, The Journal of the Civil War Era
Review of Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Megan VanGorder.
(2023), H-Net
Book, Authored
A Mother's Work: Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War-Era Nurse
Megan VanGorder.
(2026), University of North Carolina Press
Book, Chapter
““Your Friend as Ever, A. Lincoln” and Those who Claimed his Friendship,”
Megan VanGorder.
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Abraham Lincoln, Wiley Blackwell
Other
Setting the Record Straight: Mrs. Adaline Tyler and Civil War medical advocacy
Megan VanGorder.
Civil War Monitor, (2025)