Edward G. Lengel

While working on his B.A., Lengel worked at the George Mason University Law Library, 1990–1991. Lengel began his professional career at the University of Virginia. From his beginnings as a research assistant in the University of Virginia Library, he rose to become an Assistant Professor and Assistant Editor in 1997 on the George Washington Papers Project.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-lengel-23598097/|title=Edward Lengel, LinkedIn Profile/Resumé|last=Edward|first=Lengel|date=April 26, 2018|website=linkedin.com/in/edward-lengel-23598097/}}

From 2010–2016 he was Professor and Director of the project that he renamed the Washington Papers Project.{{Cite news|url=http://augustafreepress.com/university-of-virginia-to-publish-rare-letters-of-first-lady-martha-washington/|title=University of Virginia to publish rare letters of First Lady Martha Washington|last=AFP|date=2015-05-02|work=Augusta Free Press|access-date=2018-04-26|language=en-US}} During Lengel's tenure, he oversaw the creation of the Barbados Diary, Martha Washington Papers and Washington Family Papers projects,{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/28/after-george-washington-died-his-wife-burned-her-letters-except-these/|title=After George Washington died, his wife burned her letters. Except these.|last=Svrluga|first=Susan|date=2015-04-28|work=The Washington Post|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/05/03/403946549/martha-washingtons-letters-reveal-a-vital-partner-to-george|title=Martha Washington's Letters Reveal A Vital Partner To George|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-publish-rare-letters-first-lady-martha-washington|title=U.Va. to Publish Rare Letters of First Lady Martha Washington|date=2015-04-29|work=UVA Today|access-date=2018-04-26|language=en}} and was the co-editor and then editor of The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, volumes 3–4, 11, 13, 15, 18, and 20.{{Cite news|url=http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/editions/letterpress/revolutionary-war-series/volume-13-december-1777-february-1778/|title=Volume 13: Dec. 1777 – Feb. 1778 – The Washington Papers|work=The Washington Papers|access-date=2018-04-26|language=en-US}}

In 2016 Lengel left academia and relocated from Charlottesville, VA to Washington, D.C. to take on the role of Chief Historian for the White House Historical Association. The David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History is the Association's institute for White House research and education.{{Cite news|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-releases/edward-lengel-named-chief-historian|title=Edward Lengel Named Chief Historian|work=WHHA|access-date=2018-04-26|language=en}}

In 2018, Colonial Williamsburg announced that Lengel would be their Revolutionary in Residence whereby Lengel will author the historical text of a new edition of “Colonial Williamsburg: The Official Guide.”{{Cite news |title=Edward G. Lengel |url=https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/learn/revolutionaries-in-residence/ed-lengel |access-date=2018-04-26}}

Lengel has occupied other advisory and board positions including:

• Humanities Advisor, World War I and America, a NEH-funded educational project of the Library of America (wwiamerica.org)
• Advisory Board, United States World War One Centennial Commission.
• Trustee, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation, Staunton, VA, July 2011-July 2013.
• Service as chair of Library and Archives Committee, and member of Education Committee.
• Citizen Advisory Council, Virginia Commission on the Centennial of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency, July 2011 – 2012
• Board of Directors, World War I Memorial Project, July 2011 – Present{{Cite web|url=http://www.edwardlengel.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/EDWARDLENGEL_CV2018.pdf|title=Edward Lengel, Professional C.V.|last=Edward|first=Lengel|date=April 26, 2018|website=edwardlengel.com }}

Lengel's honors include the National Humanities Medal, received for his work with the Washington Papers Project. He secured the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. book prize, and the Rawlings Prize, and he has been recognized by the Army Historical Foundation and the U.S. Military History Group.

• Outstanding Book Award, Army Historical Foundation for Thunder and Flames, 2015
• Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book Award, U.S. Military History Group for Thunder and Flames, 2015{{Cite web|url=https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-2084-5.html|title=Thunder and Flames|website=kansaspress.ku.edu|access-date=2018-05-01}}
• Outstanding Professor Award, University of Virginia Inter-Sorority Council, 2015
• George Washington Masonic Memorial Award, for scholarship on George Washington, 2014.
• Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., book prize for To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918; The Western Front Association, 2008.
• National Humanities Medal (with Washington Papers Project), 2005
• General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant, U.S. Army Military History Institute, 2003.
• Rawlings Prize (Albemarle County Historical Society), 1999 and 2001. Governor's Fellowship (University of Virginia), 1995–1996.
• Dumas Malone Traveling Fellowship (University of Virginia), 1994–1995.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edwardlengel.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/EDWARDLENGEL_CV2018.pdf|title=Edward G. Lengel professional C.V.|last=Edward|first=Lengel|date=2018|website=edwardlengel.com}}

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=ViPT_bL7FG0C The Irish through British eyes: perceptions of Ireland in the Famine era], Greenwood, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-275-97634-7}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=uzAzFPUPazwC World War I memories: an annotated bibliography of personal accounts published in English since 1919], Scarecrow, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-8108-5008-8}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=B4prSx7i8wMC General George Washington: A Military Life], Random House, 2005, {{ISBN|978-1-4000-6081-8}} (reprint Random House, Inc., 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-8129-6950-4}})
• [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1161008.This_Glorious_Struggle This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters], Editor Edward G. Lengel, Smithsonian Books, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-06-125131-3}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=1pxkmbci77cC To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918], Macmillan, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-8050-7931-9}} (2nd edition Henry Holt and Co., 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-8050-8915-8}})
• [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9109649-inventing-george-washington Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory], Harper, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0-061-66258-4}}
• [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24693660-first-entrepreneur First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His--and the Nation's--Prosperity], Da Capo Press, 2016, {{ISBN|978-0-306-82347-3}}
• [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23583665-thunder-and-flames Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918], University Press of Kansas, 2015, {{ISBN|978-0-7006-2084-5}}
• Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion, Da Capo Press, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0306825682}}

Throughout his career, Lengel gave speeches and presentations related to his research as he believes, "engaging with and fellow historians is one of the great joys of being an author."{{Cite web|url=http://www.edwardlengel.com/tours-talks/|title=Tours and Talks|last=Edward|first=Lengel|date=May 1, 2018|website=edwardlengel.com}} Presentations include those about his published works, such as his February, 2011 talk at Mount Vernon at the David M. Rubenstein Leadership Hall at The Fred W. Smith National Library to discuss his book First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His--and the Nation's—Prosperity{{Cite web|url=http://www.mountvernon.org/library/library-events-programs/ford-evening-book-talks/ford-book-talk-edward-g-lengel/|title=Ford Evening Book Talk: Edward G. Lengel|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon|language=en|access-date=2018-05-01}}. Or his 2017 talk, "Testing the American Way of War: Doughboys in Combat, 1917–1918" at the George C. Marshall Foundation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.marshallfoundation.org/blog/marshall-world-wars/|title=Marshall and The World Wars – George C. Marshall Foundation|date=2017-01-20|work=George C. Marshall Foundation|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en-US}}

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• [http://www.paulagordon.com/shows2/lengel/index.html "Arrogance of War"], The Paula Gordon Show
• [http://www.vahistorical.org/news/lectures_lengel.htm "Meuse-Argonne, 1918: The Battle That Ended World War I"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620084614/http://vahistorical.org/news/lectures_lengel.htm |date=2010-06-20 }}, Virginia Historical Society
• {{C-SPAN|1017118}}
• https://www.whitehousehistory.org/staff/edward-lengel

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