Brooks D. Simpson
Brooks D. Simpson | |
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Born | Brooks Donohue Simpson August 4, 1957 Nassau County, New York, U.S. |
Education | Phillips Exeter Academy |
Alma mater | University of Virginia University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | Studies of the American Civil War |
Website | cwcrossroads |
Brooks Donohue Simpson (born August 4, 1957) is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of
Early life and education
Simpson was born in 1957 in Freeport, New York. He grew up in Seaford, New York, and Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated in 1975; four years later he graduated from the University of Virginia. Receiving his M.A. in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982, he earned his PhD in 1989.
Career
After working three years as an assistant editor for The Papers of
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Booknotes interview with Simpson on Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865, July 16, 2000, C-SPAN |
Simpson is the author of six books, the coauthor of two more, and the editor or coeditor of eight other books. He is perhaps best known for his work on
Blogging
After serving four years as one of the contributors to the prize-winning "Civil Warriors" blog,
Personal life
Simpson is descended from Richard Denton, a reverend from Yorkshire, England.[5]
Honors and awards
- NEH Travel to Collections Award, 1990;
- Huntington Library Fellow, 1991;
- Newberry Library Fellow, 1991;
- American Philosophical Society Grant, 1991;
- Dirksen Congressional Research Center Grant, 1991;
- Father Smith Lecturer, Gonzaga University, 1994;
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1994;
- Fulbright Scholarship, Leiden University, 1995;
- Interdisciplinary Fellow, ASU, 1998;
- ASU Alumni Faculty Research Award, 2003.
Bibliography
- Advice After Appomattox: Letters to Andrew Johnson, 1865-1866. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. With LeRoy P. Graf and John Muldowny.
- Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Paperback edition, 1997.
- The Political Education of Henry Adams. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
- America's Civil War. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1996.
- Union and Emancipation: Essays on Race and Politics in the Civil War Era. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. With David W. Blight.
- Think Anew, Act Anew: Abraham Lincoln on Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1998.
- The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Paperback edition, 2009.
- Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. With Jean V. Berlin.
- Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. With Mark Grimsley.
- Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- Collapse of the Confederacy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2001. Paperback edition, 2002. With Mark Grimsley.
- The Civil War: The First Year in the Words of Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America, 2011. With Stephen W. Sears and Aaron Sheehan-Dean.
- The Civil War in the East: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2011.
- Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. With Albert Castel.
- The Civil War: The Third Year in the Words of Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America, 2013.
- Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Library of America, 2018.
- An Illustrated History of the Civil War: The Conflict that Defined the United States. London: Arcturus, 2021.
See also
References
- ^ Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
- ^ "American Experience | Ulysses S. Grant". PBS. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002.
- ^ "Civil Warriors". Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
- ^ Crossroads
- ^ Simpson, Brooks D. (April 18, 2012). "My Cousin Connie". Crossroads. WordPress. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
External links
- Crossroads Blog currently edited by Brooks Simpson.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Barrett, The Honors College at ASU.