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Harold Hyman is an historian of the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

at Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

. In 2006, the History News Service discussed him in its series on history doyens.http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/28727.html He is now emeritus William P. Hobby professor at Rice.

Hyman has a bachelors degree from the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

Author

He is the author of books including

Equal Justice Under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835-1875 (New American Nation Series) with William Wiecek ISBN-13: 978-0060149376
The Reconstruction of Justice Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White ISBN-13: 978-0700608355
To Try Men's Souls ISBN-13: 978-0313233432

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