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