Jonathan White
Patrick C. Oxford Professor
Jonathan W. White is the Patrick C. Oxford Professor in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. A leading scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, he is the author or editor of twenty-two books on those subjects. His honors include the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award, the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize, the University of Maryland Alumni Excellence Award in Research, the Jack Miller Center’s Teaching Excellence Award, and the Penn State History Department’s Outstanding Alumni Award.
Education
PhD, University of Maryland at College Park
Publications
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
A Great and Good Man: Rare First-hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln
My Day with Abe Lincoln
Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln
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