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Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose was a Whitewater native whose family played an important role in local life.
Ambrose wrote about Whitewater in his book Citizen Soldiers.
His mother, CeCe Ambrose, being the first woman to serve on the Walworth County Board.
From Ambrose entry on Wikipedia:
Stephen Ambrose was born in Decatur, Illinois, and reared in Whitewater, Wisconsin, having graduated from Whitewater High School. His family also owned a farm in Lovington, Illinois.
Ambrose served as a professor of history at several universities from 1960 until his retirement in 1995, having spent the bulk of his time at the University of New Orleans. For the academic year 1969-70, he was Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College. In 1970, he was driven from his position at Kansas State University in Manhattan after having heckled President Nixon during a speech that the president gave on the KSU campus. He also taught at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Early in his career, Ambrose was mentored by World War II historian Forrest Pogue. He was the author of several bestselling books about the war, including D-Day, Citizen Soldiers and The Victors. Other major books include Undaunted Courage, about Lewis and Clark, and Nothing Like It in the World, about the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. He was the founder of the Eisenhower Center and President of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the military adviser on the movie Saving Private Ryan and was an executive producer on the television mini-series that was based on his book, Band of Brothers.
Eisenhower chose Ambrose as his biographer after admiring his work on Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, which was based on his doctoral dissertation. The resulting Eisenhower biographies were generally enthusiastic, but contained many criticisms of the former commander in chief.
Ambrose also wrote a highly regarded three-volume biography of Richard Nixon, also generally positive, but his Band of Brothers (1993) and D-Day (1994), about the lives and fates of individual soldiers in the World War II invasion, catapulted him out of the ranks of academic history and into best-sellerdom. The mini-series 'Band of Brothers' (2001) lionised American troops and helped sustain the fresh interest in WWII that was stimulated by the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994, and the 60th anniversary of D-Day in 2004.
Memories of Stephen Ambrose in Whitewater
From Robert Pitcher, June 2007
Steven Ambrose was a very good football player, he played for City High in Whitewater as well as for the UW Madison Badgers. We were in the same history class at Madison, I didn't know him personally, but know that he started out in Medical School for the first two years. After taking a history course from Prof. Hesseltine, he switched majors. Typically the classes in Madison are quite huge, he was one of the few that would ask questions, he was so knowledgable and he wasn't reticent about making a comment in class.
Ambrose wrote about Whitewater in his book Citizen Soldiers.
His mother, CeCe Ambrose, being the first woman to serve on the Walworth County Board.
From Ambrose entry on Wikipedia:
Stephen Ambrose was born in Decatur, Illinois, and reared in Whitewater, Wisconsin, having graduated from Whitewater High School. His family also owned a farm in Lovington, Illinois.
Ambrose served as a professor of history at several universities from 1960 until his retirement in 1995, having spent the bulk of his time at the University of New Orleans. For the academic year 1969-70, he was Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College. In 1970, he was driven from his position at Kansas State University in Manhattan after having heckled President Nixon during a speech that the president gave on the KSU campus. He also taught at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Early in his career, Ambrose was mentored by World War II historian Forrest Pogue. He was the author of several bestselling books about the war, including D-Day, Citizen Soldiers and The Victors. Other major books include Undaunted Courage, about Lewis and Clark, and Nothing Like It in the World, about the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. He was the founder of the Eisenhower Center and President of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the military adviser on the movie Saving Private Ryan and was an executive producer on the television mini-series that was based on his book, Band of Brothers.
Eisenhower chose Ambrose as his biographer after admiring his work on Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, which was based on his doctoral dissertation. The resulting Eisenhower biographies were generally enthusiastic, but contained many criticisms of the former commander in chief.
Ambrose also wrote a highly regarded three-volume biography of Richard Nixon, also generally positive, but his Band of Brothers (1993) and D-Day (1994), about the lives and fates of individual soldiers in the World War II invasion, catapulted him out of the ranks of academic history and into best-sellerdom. The mini-series 'Band of Brothers' (2001) lionised American troops and helped sustain the fresh interest in WWII that was stimulated by the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994, and the 60th anniversary of D-Day in 2004.
Memories of Stephen Ambrose in Whitewater
From Robert Pitcher, June 2007
Steven Ambrose was a very good football player, he played for City High in Whitewater as well as for the UW Madison Badgers. We were in the same history class at Madison, I didn't know him personally, but know that he started out in Medical School for the first two years. After taking a history course from Prof. Hesseltine, he switched majors. Typically the classes in Madison are quite huge, he was one of the few that would ask questions, he was so knowledgable and he wasn't reticent about making a comment in class.
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