Boritt, Gabor S(zappanos)
BORITT, Gabor S(zappanos)
BORITT, Gabor S(zappanos). Hungarian. Genres: History, Military/Defense/Arms control, Biography. Career: Held college teaching positions including Boston University, University of Maryland, Memphis State University, University of Michigan, Washington University, Harvard University, Darwin College of Cambridge University, University of London; Gettysburg College, associate professor, 1981-85, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies, 1986-. Civil War Institute, founder and director 1984-. Serves on boards of trustees and advisory boards. Publications: Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, 1978, reprint, 1994; (with H. Holzer and M.E. Neely, Jr.) The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print, 1984; Changing the Lincoln Image, 1985; Historian's Lincoln: Rebuttals, 1988. EDITOR: (with N.O. Forness) The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History, 1988; Lincoln: The War President, 1992; Why the Confederacy Lost, 1992; Lincoln's Generals, 1994; War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II, 1995; Of the People, by the People, for the People, 1996; Why the Civil War Came, 1996; The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, 1997; Jefferson Davis's Generals, 1999; The Lincoln Enigma, 2000. Contributor to professional journals and the popular press. Address: Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325, U.S.A. Online address: gboritt@gettysburg.edu