Elizabeth D. Leonard
{{short description|American historian}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Use American English|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox scholar
| alma_mater = University of California Riverside
| main_interests = American Civil War
| notable_works = Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
| awards = Lincoln Prize 2011
}}
Elizabeth D. Leonard is an American historian and the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Her areas of specialty include American women and the Civil War era.{{cite web|url=http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1535|title=Organization of American Historians: Elizabeth D. Leonard|work=oah.org}}
Education
Leonard earned an M.A. degree in U.S. History in 1988 and a PhD in 1992 from the University of California Riverside.{{cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/edleonar/|title=Elizabeth D. Leonard · College Directory|work=Colby College}}
Career
Now John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emerita,[https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/elizabeth-leonard/ Colby] Leonard taught at Colby College after she earned her PhD, serving as an assistant, then associate professor from 1992 to 2003.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3414300176/leonard-elizabeth-d.html|title=Leonard, Elizabeth D.|encyclopedia=encyclopedia.com}} She was interviewed in a C-Span special on the history of Augusta, Maine.{{cite web|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2012/09/11/c-span-producing-documentaries-about-augusta/|title=C-SPAN documentaries to spotlight Augusta's history |work=The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram|first=Keith|last=Edwards|date=11 September 2012}}
Leonard's research interests focus on the Civil War through the lens of gender (weighing in on controversial figures such as Loreta Janeta VelázquezAll the Daring of the Soldier) as well as race.
With the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, Leonard defended the scope of her scholarship in the Civil War era, arguing that there were prominent figures from the time about whom little is known.{{cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/magazine/elizabeth-leonard-writes-revealing-biography-of-joseph-holt-4/|title=Elizabeth Leonard Writes Revealing Biography of Joseph Holt|work=Colby Magazine}}
= Awards =
Between 2000 and 2003, Leonard was the Harriet S. and George C. Wiswell Jr. Research Fellow at Colby College in American History.{{cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/win01/fac/qanda.shtml|title=Colby Magazine, Winter 2001 - Faculty|author=Karen Oh|work=colby.edu}}
Her book Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky won the Lincoln Prize in 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gilderlehrman.org/about/2012-lincoln-prize-awarded-books-explore-lincoln%E2%80%99s-relationship-with-border-states-joseph-holt |title=2012 Lincoln Prize awarded to books that explore Lincoln's relationship with border states, Joseph Holt |publisher= the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History|date=February 10, 2012 |access-date=2022-01-12 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053514/http://www.gilderlehrman.org/about/2012-lincoln-prize-awarded-books-explore-lincoln%E2%80%99s-relationship-with-border-states-joseph-holt |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.gettysburg.edu/news_events/press_release_detail.dot?id=b78d56ef-d556-4abf-b1ab-3736a4913194|title=2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize winners announced|work=Gettysburg College}}
Publications
- Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton, September 17, 1995. {{ISBN|9780393313727}}. {{OCLC|29597008}}
- All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., June 1, 1999. {{ISBN|9780393335477}}. {{OCLC|40543151}}
- Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., March 2004. {{ISBN|9780393048681}}. {{OCLC|53223534}}
- Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., August 23, 2010. {{ISBN|9780393060393}}. {{OCLC| 449865104}}
- Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Civil War America series). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, October 10, 2011. {{ISBN|9780807869383}}. {{OCLC|769187885}}
- Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. {{ISBN|9781469668048}}.
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|85092}}
- Video of lecture 'Women in the Civil War' from Organization of American Historians's Youtube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdn-pouFzg]
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:Colby College faculty
Category:Biographers of Abraham Lincoln
Category:Historians of the American Civil War
Category:Lincoln Prize winners