Michael Fellman

Michael Dinion Fellman (born 1943 in Madison , Wisconsin ; † June 11, 2012 ) was an American - Canadian historian and primarily dealt with the history of the United States in the 19th century. His special focus was on the civil war .

Life

Fellman was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1943, where his father, David Fellman , taught constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin . In 1947 the family moved permanently to Madison. Fellman grew up here with a sister. He later attended Oberlin College and studied at the University of Michigan , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 . As a student, he came into contact with the civil rights movement , having grown up in a liberal family and being an opponent of the Vietnam War . In 1969 he received his PhD from Northwestern University in Chicago with the dissertation The Unbounded Frame: Freedom and Community in Nineteenth-Century American Utopianism .

In 1969 he began teaching at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby , British Columbia . Except for a stay in Israel , where he was Fulbright Professor at the University of Haifa from 1980 to 1981 as part of the Fulbright Program , as well as sabbaticals at the Davis Center of Princeton University , the Stanford Humanities Center of Stanford University (1993 as Visiting Professor ), and the Huntington Library , he spent his entire academic career at Simon Fraser University. From 1969 to 1974 as assistant professor , from 1974 to 1983 as associate professor and from 1983 as professor. In 2008 he retired .

Fellman was married and had two sons. In the course of his teaching at Simon Fraser University, he became a Canadian citizen.

The Unbounded Frame: Freedom and Community in Nineteenth-Century American Utopianism (1973, Westport, Conn .: Greenwood Press)
with Anita Clair Fellman: Making Sense of Self: Medical Advice Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century America (1981, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (1989, New York: Oxford University Press)
Citizen Sherman: A Life of William T. Sherman (1995, New York: Random House)
The Making of Robert E. Lee (New York: Random House, 2000)
with Daniel E. Sutherland , Lesley Gordon: This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath (2002, New York: Longman)
In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History (2009, Yale University Press )
Views from the Dark Side of American History (2011, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press)

^ ^A ^b Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1970: January-June , p. 434 (Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1972)
↑ Michael Fellman: Review: Madison Daze . In Labor / Le Travail (Vol. 29, Spring 1992, pp. 221-227)

personal data
SURNAME	Fellman, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fellman, Michael Dinion (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madison , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 2012