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MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia
Smith
561-297-2971, ssmith@fau.edu FAU
Professor Appointed to Organization of American Historians Lectureship Program BOCA
RATON, FL (March 18, 2004) - The Organization
of American Historians (OAH) has appointed Stephen Engle, professor of history
at Florida Atlantic University, to their Distinguished Lectureship Program. Engle
joins scholars from around the country who have been recognized by OAH to be outstanding
historians and lecturers. Starting in the Fall of 2004 and continuing through
2007, Engle will be lecturing throughout the nation on Civil War history.
Founded
in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, OAH is the largest professional
organization for the investigation, study and teaching of American history. It
serves a membership of 11,000 college and university professors, high school teachers,
students, archivists, public historians and institutional subscribers in the United
States and abroad.
"We are pleased
that the OAH is recognizing Stephen Engle's accomplishments in the field of history,"
said William A. Covino, dean of FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
"His scholarly work has been a major contribution to the study of the American
Civil War."
Engle is a professor in
and chair of the History Department at FAU in Boca Raton. His teaching and research
interests focus on the Civil War, in particular the ethnic, military, and most
recently, the political considerations of the conflict. The author of several
books and articles, the former Fulbright Scholar to Germany is most recently known
for his work Struggle for the Heartland (2001). Currently, he is engaged in research
for a book entitled, "Fathers' Abraham: Lincoln, His Governors, and the Negotiations
of Power," which explores the relationship between Lincoln and the northern
war governors during the Civil War.
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