Dr. Carol Reardon
Author and Historian
Dr. Carol Reardon is a military historian specializing in the American Civil War and the Vietnam conflict. A Pittsburgh native, she taught at Penn State University from 1991 to 2017, retiring as the George Winfree Professor of American History. She has also served as Visiting Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and twice held the General Harold K. Johnson Professorship at the U.S. Army War College. Post-retirement, she has taught as an adjunct professor of History and Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Carol was the first woman elected—and later re-elected—president of the Society for Military History, and she continues to contribute to public history through her service on the Board of Directors of the Gettysburg Foundation, where she has chaired its Education Committee.