Edna Greene Medford

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Edna Greene Medford is a professor of history at Howard University who specializes in 19th-century African-American history.{{cite web|url=http://www.coas.howard.edu/history/faculty_Medford.html |title=HU History |publisher=Coas.howard.edu |date= |accessdate=2018-04-13}}

She is a member of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation{{cite web|url=http://www.lincolnbicentennial.org/board-members|title=Board Members - Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation|website=www.lincolnbicentennial.org|accessdate=13 April 2018}} and is on the Executive Committee of the Lincoln Forum.[https://www.thelincolnforum.org/officers The Lincoln Forum: Officers]

Medford has degrees from Hampton University and the University of Illinois. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Maryland. Edna Greene Medford served as Chair of the Department of History of Howard University for nearly eight years. In July 2018, she became the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard University. She is the author of [https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Emancipation-Concise-Library-ebook/dp/B00YNK6KCK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530113727&sr=8-1&keywords=medford%2C+edna&dpID=51ItLpqBXIL&preST=_SY445_QL70_&dpSrc=srch Lincoln and Emancipation] (2015) and co-author of [https://www.amazon.com/Emancipation-Proclamation-Conflicting-Dimensions-American/dp/080713144X/ The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views] (2006). She compiled and wrote the introductions to the edited two-volume work The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War - Volume I , and The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War - Volume II , both published in 2000.