Edna Greene Medford

Edna Greene Medford is a professor of history at Howard University who specializes in 19th-century African-American history.

She is a member of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and is on the Executive Committee of the Lincoln Forum.

Medford has degrees from Hampton University and the University of Illinois. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Maryland. Edna Greene Medford served as Chair of the Department of History of Howard University for nearly eight years. In July 2018, she became the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard University. She is the author o
''Lincoln and Emancipation''
(2015) and co-author of
The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views
' (2006). She compiled and wrote the introductions to the edited two-volume work ''The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War - Volume I'' , and ''The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War - Volume II ,'' both published in 2000.

Awards

Edna Greene Medford was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2009 as a Bicentennial Laureate.

References

External links

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''Q&A'' interview with Medford, April 21, 2008
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''In Depth'' interview, February 1, 2009
(with Frank Williams)

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Howard University faculty
Historians of the United States
21st-century American historians
Hampton University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
American women historians
21st-century American women writers
Biographers of Abraham Lincoln

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