Jim Downs

Jim Downs is an American historian. He is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Studies and History at Gettysburg College.

Books

 * Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (2021)
 * Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (2016)
 * Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)