Mark E. Neely

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Mark Edward Neely Jr. (born November 10, 1944 in Amarillo , Texas ) is an American historian specializing in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War .

Neely studied American history at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and a doctorate in 1973. In 1971/72 he was an instructor at Iowa State University and from 1972 director of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne ( Indiana ). In 1992 he became a professor at Saint Louis University and in 1998 at Pennsylvania State University ( McCabe Greer Professor of Civil War History ).

In 1992 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book on Lincoln's restriction of basic civil rights (such as the Habeas Corpus Act) in the American Civil War. The book also won the Bell I. Wiley Prize in 1992. In 1995 he received the Wilbur Cross Medal at Yale.

Fonts

  • The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia , McGraw Hill 1982
  • with Gabor S. Boritt, Harold Holzer: The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print , Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, Fort Wayne 1984
  • with Gabor S. Boritt, Harold Holzer: Changing The Lincoln Image , Lincoln Museum 1985
  • with R. Gerald McMurtry: The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln , 1986
  • with Boritt, Holzer: The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause , University of North Carolina Press 1987
  • with Holzer: The Lincoln Family Album , Doubleday 1990
  • The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties , Oxford University Press 1991
  • with Holzer: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in America Lincoln Museum 1993
  • The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of American , Harvard University Press 1993
  • Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism , University Press of Virginia 1999
  • with Holzer: The Union Image: Popular Prints in the Civil War North , University of North Carolina Press 2000
  • The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North , Harvard University Press 2002
  • The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era , University of North Carolina Press 2005
  • The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction , Harvard University Press 2007
  • Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War , University of North Carolina Press 2011
  • Retaliation: the problem of atrocity in the American Civil War , Gettysburg College 2002

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SURNAME Neely, Mark E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neely, Mark Edward Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Amarillo , Texas