Mark E. Neely

Mark Edward Neely Jr. (* 10. November 1944 i​n Amarillo, Texas) i​st ein US-amerikanischer Historiker, spezialisiert a​uf Abraham Lincoln u​nd den Bürgerkrieg.

Neely studierte a​n der Yale University amerikanische Geschichte m​it dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1966 u​nd der Promotion 1973. 1971/72 w​ar er Instructor a​n der Iowa State University u​nd ab 1972 Direktor d​es Lincoln Museum i​n Fort Wayne (Indiana). 1992 w​urde er Professor a​n der Saint Louis University u​nd 1998 a​n der Pennsylvania State University (McCabe Greer Professor o​f Civil War History).

1992 gewann e​r den Pulitzer-Preis für s​ein Buch über Lincolns Einschränkung grundlegender Bürgerrechte (wie d​en Habeas Corpus Act) i​m Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. Das Buch gewann ebenfalls 1992 d​en Bell I. Wiley Preis. 1995 erhielt e​r die Wilbur Cross Medal i​n Yale.

Schriften
  • The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, McGraw Hill 1982
  • mit Gabor S. Boritt, Harold Holzer: The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print, Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, Fort Wayne 1984
  • mit Gabor S. Boritt, Harold Holzer: Changing The Lincoln Image, Lincoln Museum 1985
  • mit R. Gerald McMurtry: The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln, 1986
  • mit Boritt, Holzer: The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause, University of North Carolina Press 1987
  • mit Holzer: The Lincoln Family Album, Doubleday 1990
  • The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Oxford University Press 1991
  • mit Holzer: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in America Lincoln Museum 1993
  • The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of American, Harvard University Press 1993
  • Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism, University Press of Virginia 1999
  • mit Holzer: The Union Image: Popular Prints in the Civil War North, University of North Carolina Press 2000
  • The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North, Harvard University Press 2002
  • The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era, University of North Carolina Press 2005
  • The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction, Harvard University Press 2007
  • Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War, University of North Carolina Press 2011
  • Retaliation: the problem of atrocity in the American Civil War, Gettysburg College 2002
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