Mary Munsell Abroe

BA from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana; PhD from Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Abroe currently teaches history at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois and has commented on and given presentations related to her interest in the Civil War era and historic preservation at professional gatherings and cultural/historical institutions, including the Kenosha (WI) Civil War Museum, Wilmette (IL) Public Library, Wilson’s Creek (MO) National Battlefield, and meetings of the Illinois State Historical Society, Ohio Valley History Conference, National Council on Public History, and Organization of American Historians. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Civil War History; Mid-America: An Historical Review; the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; the Journal of Southern History; and Cultural Resource Management (later CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship), a publication of the National Park Service. In observance of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, she was project scholar for “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War,” co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association, at the Wilmette Public Library. Dr. Abroe is a member of the Board of Directors of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation and past president of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago.