Garry Adelman

Chief Historian, American Battlefield Trust

Garry Adelman is an award-winning historian, author, and educator whose work has shaped how audiences experience and understand America’s battlefields. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 20 books and 50 articles, and serves as vice president of the Center for Civil War Photography. A Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg since 1995, Garry has lectured at hundreds of venues nationwide—including the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian—and has led thousands of tours at more than 100 historic sites. A frequent television personality, he has appeared on the BBC, C-SPAN, and American Heroes Channel, and served as chief consultant and featured expert on the HISTORY Channel’s Emmy Award-winning documentary Gettysburg (2011), as well as Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color (2015), Grant (2020), Battles for America (2022), and Unbelievable History (2024). Garry is a graduate of Michigan State University and Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

Select Publications

• Devil’s Den: A History and Guide
• Antietam: Then & Now
• Gettysburg in 3-D
• Little Round Top: A Detailed Tour Guide
• The Myth of Little Round Top
• The Early Gettysburg Battlefield
• The Cost of War
• 99 Historic Images of Gettysburg
• 99 Historic Photographs of Culp’s Hill
• 99 Historic Images of Harper’s Ferry
• 99 Historic Images of Civil War Petersburg
• 99 Historic Images of Civil War Washington
• 99 Historic Images of Richmond Civil War Sites
• 99 Historic Images of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Civil War Sites
• 99 Historic Images of the Civil War in the West