Gerald J. Prokopowicz
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Gerald J. Prokopowicz (12 October 1958 - )
Prokopowicz (pronounced pro ko po' vich) was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Aulga and Gerald Prokopowicz, both teachers.
He was educated at Grosse Pointe North High School, the University of Michigan (B.A. 1980 and J.D. 1983) and received his Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1995.
From 1993 to 2002, he served as the Lincoln Scholar at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he co-wrote the award winning permanent exhibit “Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment” and edited the quarterly bulletin Lincoln Lore.
Currently chair of the East Carolina University History Department, he has stated in his website that he is dedicated to training students to practice history outside of academia and to removing the artificial barriers that divide academic historians from public historians and from the public itself.
Prokopowicz is a member of the Advisory Board to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Lincoln Forum.
He has written numerous reviews and articles for popular and scholarly periodicals. His current research interests include public perceptions of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War military tactics. He hosts a weekly internet radio program at Civil War Talk Radio.
Selected Publications:
- • Did Lincoln Own Slaves? and Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham
- Lincoln. (New York: Pantheon Books, 2008)
- • All For The Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-62.
- (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
- • “Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire: The Men Who Fought the War,” in
- Sheehan-Dean, ed.Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War.
- (Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2006)
- • “Word of Honor: Abraham Lincoln and the Parole System in the Civil War,” in
- Hubbard, ed. Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency. (Macon, Georgia: Mercer
- University Press, 2003)
- • “Military Fantasies,” in Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma. (New York:
- Oxford University Press, 2002)
Dr. Prokopowicz lives in Greenville, North Carolina.
(See entry for Abraham Lincoln.)
