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Nebraska Authors

Ken Winkle

AKA: Dr. Kenneth J. Winkle

Born 1954

Sorensen Professor of American History, Kenneth J. Winkle specializes in American History; in particular, political, social, cultural, and military history.

Places Lived

Miami, FL
Madison, WI
Lincoln, NE

Author Of

  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction

Keywords

History

Education

Bachelor of Arts Degree, magna cum laude with Honors, 1976, Miami University, Miami, FL
Master of Arts Degree, 1977, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
Ph.D., 1984, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

Occupation

Sorensen Professor of History
Author

Places Worked

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Honors

Allan Sharlin Award of the Social Science History Association
Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award for The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln , 2001
Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award
College Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, UNL, 2004
Anna Chaikin Sorensen Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, UNL, 2004
Thomas C. Sorensen Professorship of American History, UNL, 2004
Editor’s Choice, History Book Club, November 2004, for Oxford Atlas of the Civil War
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2005

Associations

UNL History Department

Bibliography

The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio. 1988.
Ida M. Tarbell, Abraham Lincoln and His Ancestors. 1997.
The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln. 2001.
The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War. 2004.
Abraham and Mary Lincoln. 2011.
Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, D.C. 2014.

He has published extensively in various scholarly journals.

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