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Gabor Boritt
Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies & Director of the Civil War Institute

Boritt was born and raised in Hungary and educated in South Dakota and Massachusetts. At Gettysburg College, he serves as the founder and director of the Civil War Institute, Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees of the Lincoln Prize. He has held visiting appointments at the universities of Cambridge, London, Harvard, and Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author, co-author and editor of 15 books on Lincoln and the Civil War, many of them Book of the Month Club and History Book Club selections, and his writing has been translated into five languages. Boritt has received various awards and fellowships, most recently a Congressional appointment to The Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and a National Humanities Medal for 2008 from President George W. Bush. His current book is "The Gettysburg Gospel," which was featured on the cover of U.S. News & World Report.

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