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2R-THE SEA COAST ECHO?SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1989
Ambrose to address Hancock
Historical Society
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STEPHEN AMBROSE
and 1964 and from 1971 to the present. In the interim period, he served on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University, the Naval War College, and Kansas State University. He took a leave of absence from UNO in 1981-82 to serve as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of history at University College, Dublin.
A native of Whitewater, Wise., Ambrose received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin, and his master?s from LSU.
Ambrose is the author of 18 books on U.S. foreign relations, military history, and political and military leaders.
Among these books are five on Dwight D. Eisenhower, most notably the highly acclaimed two-volume Eisenhower
The Hancock County Historical Society will host Stephen Ambrose?s intimately historical panorama of ?Dwight Eisenhower?Good and Great Man? on Wednesday, March 29 at 7 p.m. at the meeting room in the Mississippi Power building at the comer of Dunbar and Hwy. 90.
Ambrose, a Bay St. Louis resident and professional historian, is alumni professor of history at University of New Orleans.
He is the author of 17 books on political and military history, translated into as many as six languages, including the two volumes on Eisenhower.
Ambrose was recently named a Boyd Professor, the highest honor that can be accorded a faculty member in the Louisiana State University system.
Only 41 faculty members in the LSU system have been awarded a Boyd professorship. Ambrose is the fourth UNO professor given the honor.
In 1987, the year he was named a Notable Wisconsin Author by the Wisconsin Library Association.
Ambrose had published the first of a two-volume biography on Richard M. Nixon, entitled ?Nixon: The Education of a Politician.? He is currently conducting research for a narrative of D-Day memoirs, gathered from World War II veterans.
For the book, ?Eisenhower: The President,? Ambrose received the 1984 George Washington Honor Medal.
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The Boyd professorship was 4 established in 1952 in honor of two of LSU?s early presidents, David French Boyd and Thomas D. Boyd, and is reserved for faculty members ?who have attained national or interna-! tional distinction for outstand-; ing teaching, research or other creative achievements.?
In designating Ambrose a Boyd Professor, the LSU Board of Supervisors noted that he ?has attained national and international distinction for his scholarly achievements in military and political history? and has been particularly ?recognized for his recent biographies on Eisenhower and Nixon; for his interpretive study on American foreign policy since 1938, ?Rise to Globalism,? which is used as a text at many institutions; and for his earlier works on the Civil War.?
Director of the Eisenhower Center at UNO, Ambrose has been a member of the university?s history faculty from 1960
highest award of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. He received the Creative Programming Award from the National University Continuing Education Association, honoring him for his organization of the program, ?Peace in Europe: 40th Anniversry,? held at UNO in 1985.
He also was named 1985 Louisiana Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
The public is invited to attend.
Ambrose is also.the author of the dual biography of Chief Crazy Horse and General Custer.