- Born: 1944
- Birthplace: Texas
The McCabe Greer Professor in the American Civil War Era at Penn State University, Mark E. Neely Jr. is a US political and constitutional historian, specializing in the period from 1787-1877. He received his PhD from Yale University and directed the Lincoln Museum at Fort Wayne, IN, for nearly 20 years, until 1992. He has written several books, focusing on the Civil War era and on Abraham Lincoln.
His The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties received the Pulitzer Prize for History. Others of his books include The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (1982), The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (1984), The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause (1987), Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: the Civil War in Art (1993), Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999), The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North (2002), and Terror and War in North America, 1864-1865 (2005).
Most Famous Works
- The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991)
- The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (1993)
