Matthew D. Norman, Ph.D.

Ph.D.: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, (History)

A.M.: University of Illinois Urbana-Champagin, (History)

B.A.: Knox College

2017 - Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College,

2011 -2017 Assistant Professor of History, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College,

2015 - Editor, Ohio Valley History,

2010 -2011 Acting Coordinator of Civil War Era Studies Program, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

2008 -2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, History and Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

2007 -2008 Visiting Assistant Professor of Civil War Era Studies and Africana Studies, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

2006 -2007 Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Civil War Era Studies and Africana Studies, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

Peer Reviewed Publications

Matthew D. Norman  (2017). “‘Had Mr. Lincoln Lived’: Alternate Histories, Reconstruction, Race and Memory. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 38 (1) , 43-69

Matthew D. Norman  (2010). The Other Lincoln Douglas-Debate: The Race Issue in a Comparative Context,. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 31 (1) , 1-21

Matthew D. Norman  (2007). From An ‘Abolition City’ to the Color Line: Galesburg, Knox College, and the Legacy of Antislavery Activism. Journal of Illinois History, 10 (1) , 2-26

Matthew D. Norman  (2003). An Illinois Iconoclast: Edgar Lee Masters and the Anti-Lincoln Tradition. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 24 (1) , 43-57

Published Books

Matthew D. Norman and Frederick Hord (2022). Knowing Him By Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln. Champaign-Urbana, University of Illinois Press. (Co-Editor)

Book Chapter

(2021). “Our Beloved Father Abraham:” African American Civil War Veterans and Abraham Lincoln in War and Memory. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans. (pp. 211-229). Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press

Matthew D. Norman (2006). Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, the Model Republic, and the Right of Revolution: 1848-61. In Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen . (pp. 154-177).

Matthew D. Norman (2019). Fraught with Great Difficulty’: Lincoln and Reconstruction. In The Blackwell Companion to Abraham Lincoln. Blackwell

Encyclopedia Article

Matthew D. Norman (2008) The Essential Lincoln: A Political Encyclopedia .8-15Washington, D.C., CQ Press

Matthew D. Norman (2008) The Essential Lincoln: A Political Encyclopedia .510-513Washington, D.C., CQ Press

Matthew D. Norman (2008) The Essential Lincoln: A Political Encyclopedia .611-614

Matthew D. Norman (2008) The Essential Lincoln: A Political Encyclopedia .618-621

Academic - UC Blue Ash Muntz 255F
Phone: 513-558-1650
normanmh@ucmail.uc.edu