Don Higginbotham
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Don Higginbotham | |
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 Don Higginbotham in March 2007 | |
| Born | May 22, 1931 |
| Died | June 22, 2008 (aged 77) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Genre | History |
Don Higginbotham (May 22, 1931 – June 22, 2008) was an American historian and Dowd Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading scholar of George Washington, he was a pioneering practitioner of the “new” military history and an expert on colonial and revolutionary America and the early national United States. He served twice (1975–76 and 1998–99) as visiting professor of history at the United States Military Academy.
A native of Malden, Missouri, Higginbotham attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he received his A.B. and M.A. degrees. He enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska but in 1955 followed Professor John R. Alden, his adviser, to Duke University. In 1958, upon the completion of his dissertation on Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, Duke awarded him his Ph.D. He taught at Longwood College, the College of William and Mary, and Louisiana State University prior to joining the faculty at Chapel Hill where, for 41 years, he taught undergraduate and graduate students.
