Brooks D. Simpson

Brooks D. Simpson, an American historian, is Professor of History and Humanities at Arizona State University. He was born August 4, 1957, in Freeport, New York. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated in 1975; four years later he graduated from the University of Virginia. Receiving his M.A. in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, he earned his Ph.D. in 1989.

After working three years as an assistant editor for "The Papers of Andrew Johnson", based at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Simpson joined the faculty at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1987. Three years later, in 1990, he migrated west to Arizona State University, where he presently teaches.

Simpson is the author of five books, the coauthor of another, and the editor or coeditor of six other books. He is perhaps best known for his work on Ulysses S. Grant. "Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1885", published by Houghton Mifflin in 2000, was a "New York Times" Notable Book and a "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title for that year [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=awards&titleNumber=696194] . He has appeared several times on C-SPAN, speaking on Henry Adams [http://www.americanwriters.org/chapters/four.asp] and Grant [http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1573] , as well as on PBS's "American Experience" [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/] . Currently he is one of the contributors to the prize-winning "Civil Warriors" blog. [http://civilwarriors.net/wordpress/]

Honors and Awards

*NEH Travel to Collections Award, 1990;
*Huntington Library Fellow, 1991;
*Newberry Library Fellow, 1991;
*American Philosophical Society Grant, 1991;
*Dirksen Congressional Research Center Grant, 1991;
* Father Smith Lecturer, Gonzaga University, 1994;
* American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1994;
* Fulbright Scholarship, Leiden University, 1995;
* Interdisciplinary Fellow, ASU, 1998;
* ASU Alumni Faculty Research Award, 2003.

Books

*Advice After Appomattox: Letters to Andrew Johnson, 1865-1866. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. With LeRoy P. Graf and John Muldowny.
*Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Paperback edition, 1997.
*The Political Education of Henry Adams. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
*America's Civil War. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1996.
*Union and Emancipation: Essays on Race and Politics in the Civil War Era. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. With David W. Blight.
*Think Anew, Act Anew: Abraham Lincoln on Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1998.
*The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
*Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. With Jean V. Berlin.
*Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. With Mark Grimsley.
*Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity,1822-1865. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
*Collapse of the Confederacy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2001. Paperback edition, 2002. With Mark Grimsley.