Carolyn Ivanoff

Carolyn Ivanoff is a retired high school administrator, author, and independent historian. She writes and speaks frequently on American history in a variety of formats and venues. As an author, researcher, and presenter much of her work focuses on 19th century America including social, medical, and material culture, the American Civil War, and Connecticut. At the heart of her research and published works are firsthand, primary source accounts of the people of the Civil War generation. Carolyn Ivanoff is the author of two books, We Fought at Gettysburg-Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry and Cornelia Hancock’s Civil War-A Heart Touched by Fire from Gettysburg to the Grand Review. As a presenter her programs include educational and historical presentations for museums, libraries, schools, community organizations, Civil War round tables, and living history venues.