Gabor Boritt

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Gabor Boritt
Boritt in 2014
Born	1940 (age 83–84) Budapest, Hungary
Children	3, including Jake
Awards	National Humanities Medal
Academic background
Education	Yankton College University of South Dakota Boston University
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln specialist
Institutions	Gettysburg College University of Michigan
Website	www.boritt.com

Gabor S. Boritt (born 1940 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American historian. He was the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Born and raised in Hungary, he participated as a teenager in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet Union before escaping to America, where he received his higher education and became a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 16 books about Lincoln or the War. Boritt received the National Humanities Medal in 2008 from President George W. Bush.