Edna Greene Medford is a professor of history at

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a Private university, private, University charter#Federal, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classifie ...

who specializes in 19th-century African-American history. She is a member of the board of the

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation is the successor organization of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), which was created by Congress and the President of the United States to plan the commemoration of Abraham Lincoln� ...

br>and is on the Executive Committee of The Lincoln Forum.
Medford has degrees from

Hampton University Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association a ...

and the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Uni ...

. She holds a PhD in History from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

. Edna Greene Medford served as Chair of the Department of History of

for nearly eight years. In July 2018, she became the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of

. She is the author o
''Lincoln and Emancipation''
(2015) and co-author of
The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views
' (2006). She compiled and wrote the introductions to the edited two-volume work ''The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War - Volume I'' , and ''The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War - Volume II ,'' both published in 2000.

Awards

Edna Greene Medford was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2009 as a Bicentennial Laureate.

References

External links

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''Q&A'' interview with Medford, April 21, 2008
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''In Depth'' interview, February 1, 2009
(with Frank Williams) Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Howard University faculty Historians of the United States 21st-century American historians Hampton University alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni American women historians 21st-century American women writers {{US-historian-stub