Michael Les Benedict is an American historian, who taught at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

from 1970 until his retirement in 2005. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from 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 Univer ...

and his PhD from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universities ...

. His expertise is principally in constitutional and legal history,

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life o ...

and civil liberties, and the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

and

Reconstruction Reconstruction may refer to: Politics, history, and sociology *Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *'' Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Unio ...

. Benedict brings a political science approach to his analysis of historical events. Benedict has contributed several works to the field of Civil War and Reconstruction studies including ''The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson'' (1973), ''A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869'' (1975), ''Fruits of Victory: Alternatives in Restoring the Union, 1865-1877'' (1986), and, more recently, ''Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era'' (2006).

References

* Benedict, Michael Les, ''The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson'' (1973) * Benedict, Michael Les, ''A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction'' (1975) * Benedict, Michael Les, ''The Blessings of Liberty'' (1996, rev. ed. 2005) * Benedict, Michael Les, ''Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era'' (2006) * Benedict, Michael Les, ''Sources in American Constitutional History'' (1996) a companion volume * Benedict, Michael Les, ''The Fruits of Victory: Alternatives in Restoring the Union, 1865-1877'' (1975, rev. ed. 1986). A reader in Reconstruction History *Benedict, Michael Les,

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's bicentennial essay on the history of American civil liberty, Civil Rights and Liberties (1987) * Benedict, Michael Les, co-editor ''The History of Ohio Law'' (2004). *
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External links

OSU Department of History - Michael Les Benedict
Historians of the American Civil War Historians of the Reconstruction Era University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Rice University alumni Ohio State University faculty Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Year of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub