Occupation Historian | Education Rice University | |
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Born January 28, 1961 (age 56)
Ohio, United States ( 1961-01-28 ) Books Nothing But Victory: The Army, Jefferson Davis and his gener, This Great Struggle: America's, Six Armies in Tennesse, While God is marching on Similar Mark Grimsley, Grady McWhiney, Ulysses S Grant | ||
Steven E. Woodworth (born January 28, 1961) is an American historian specializing in studies of the American Civil War. He has written numerous books concerning the Civil War, and as a professor has taught classes on the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, and military history.
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Career
Steven E. Woodworth was born in Ohio on January 28, 1961 and spent most his early life in Illinois. He graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1982 with a B.A. in history. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 at Rice University. Woodworth served as a professor at Bartlesville Wesleyan College in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and at Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, where he taught a wide variety of history courses, including on life in ancient Mesopotamia. He began working as a professor at Texas Christian University in 1997. He has taught courses there on the Old South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Selected works
The following is a list of several notable books written by Woodworth: