STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN, M.D., FAPM, DFAPA
Civil War Activities:
Biography
Dr. Goldman is a former two-time President of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table, serves on the Abraham Lincoln Institute Board of Directors, and leads a monthly Civil War book group. A noted speaker at National Museum of Civil War Medicine Annual Conferences, various Civil War organization meetings and Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, he is writing a book about Union servicemen that focuses on the impact of combat and military service on veterans’ lives – it is planned for publication by Fordham University Press in its The North’s Civil War series.
Dr. Goldman received his B.A. from the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College (HTC) as the Outstanding Graduate in Psychology, and his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine, where he won the Alex Rosen Award for Excellence in Medicine and the Humanities.
Publications
Goldman SA. Wounded men in blue: soldiers’ pride and the Union cause. North & South 2006; 9(7):76-83
Presentations (representative list)
Annual Cornwell Presentation (Athens County Historical Society & Museum)
“For What They Died, I Fight a Little Longer”:
The Postwar Lives of Sergeant Robert Pinn and General Rufus Dawes
Athens, OH
March 2011
United States National Archives I
“All the Elements of Sublimity and Terror”:
Veterans and the Psychological Impact of War
Washington DC
November, 2010
Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Treating Combat Veterans: Lessons Learned Over Time
Bedford, MA
October 2010
17th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
From “Irritable Heart” to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
Challenges for the Medical Historian
Baltimore MD
October 2009
Medicine in Challenging Environments 2009 Conference
Pushing the Envelope: Operational Aeromedical Problems Course
Galveston, TX
February 2009
Presenter, Plenary Session:
The Warrior Ethos in Rehabilitation: Lessons Learned from History
Presenter, Army Aviation Medicine Breakout:
“All the Elements of Sublimity and Terror”:
Veterans and the Psychological Impact of War
16th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Wounded Warriors Come Home: The Union Soldier in Peace
Baltimore, MD
October 2008
Marine Corps Command & Staff College
“Those Arms Were Not Lost in Vain”: Union Soldiers and the Price of Freedom
Quantico VA
March 2007
Interviews
Conversations From Studio B
“Psychological Ravages of War”
Based on Dr. Goldman’s upcoming book, this radio interview focusing on both Civil War and Vietnam veterans was broadcast over the WOUB radio network on March 13, 2011.
The recording of this interview available here is provided through the courtesy of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University
Listen to the Interview at SAGCS.com