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Elizabeth D. Leonard specializes in the American Civil War era, with a focus on American women. She is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emerita, at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Elizabeth D. Leonard earned her PhD in 1992 from the University of California Riverside. She had earned a master's degree in U.S. History there in 1988.
Elizabeth D. Leonard won the Lincoln Prize in 2012 for Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. The book was published in October 2011 by the University of North Carolina Press.
Elizabeth D. Leonard served as an assistant and then associate professor at Colby College from 1992 to 2003. She later became the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emerita, at the college.
Elizabeth D. Leonard held the Harriet S. and George C. Wiswell Jr. Research Fellowship in American History at Colby College between 2000 and 2003.
Elizabeth D. Leonard's most recent book is Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2022.