Elizabeth D. Leonard is an American historian and the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philanthr ...

in Maine. Her areas of specialty include American women and the Civil War era.

Education

She earned an M.A. in U.S. History in 1988 and a PhD in 1992 from the

University of California Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

Career

Leonard has been teaching at Colby College since receiving her PhD, serving as an assistant, then associate professor from 1992 to 2003. She was interviewed in a C-Span special on the history of Augusta, Maine. Leonard's research interests focus on the Civil War through the lens of gender (weighing in on controversial figures such as

Loreta Janeta Velázquez Loreta Janeta (June 26, 1842 – 1923), was an American woman who wrote that she had masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. The book she wrote about her experiences says that after her soldier husband's acciden ...

) 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.

Awards

Between 2000 and 2003, Leonard was the Harriet S. and George C. Wiswell Jr. Research Fellow at Colby College in American History. Her book, ''Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky'' won the

Lincoln Prize The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, founded by the late Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for America ...

in 2011.

Publications

* ''Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War''. New York: W.W. Norton, Sep 17, 1995. . * ''All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies''. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Jun 1, 1999. . * ''Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War''. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Mar 2004. . * ''Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality''. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Aug 23, 2010. . * '' Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky'' (Civil War America series). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Oct 10, 2011. . * ''Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life''. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. .

References

External links

* * Video of lecture 'Women in the Civil War' from Organization of American Historians's Youtube channe

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leonard, Elizabeth D. Living people 21st-century American historians Colby College faculty Historians of the American Civil War University of California, Riverside alumni Lincoln Prize winners Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of Abraham Lincoln