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Mark E. Neely Jr.

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Mark E. Neely, Jr. is an American historian best known as an authority on the U.S. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991.

Neely was born in Amarillo, Texas. He earned his undergraduate degree in American Studies at Yale University in 1966 and his Ph.D. in history at the same school in 1973. Yale's Graduate School would award him with a Wilbur Cross Medal in 1995.

From 1971 to 1972 Neely was a visiting instructor at Iowa State University. In the latter year, he was named director of The Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a position he held for twenty years.

In 1992, Dr. Neely was named the John Francis Bannon Professor of History and American Studies at Saint Louis University. And, in 1998, he was made the McCabe Greer Professor of Civil War History at Pennsylvania State University.

Neely is best known for his 1991 book The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, which won both the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bell I. Wiley Prize the following year. In March 1991, he published an article in the magazine Civil War History, entitled Was the Civil War a Total War?, which is considered one of the top three most influential articles on the war written in the last half of the 20th Century.

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Books from Mark E. Neely Jr.

Lincoln's Generals

The West Point History of the Civil War

The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction

The Confederate Image: Prints Of The Lost Cause

Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific

The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism

The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America

Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: The Civil War in Art

The Assassination of Lincoln: History and Myth

Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties

The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print

The West Point History of the Civil War Enhanced Edition

Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)

The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House