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PhD History University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, John Younker Simon was an American Civil War scholar known for editing the papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Biography Born in Highland Park, Illinois, to Jane Younker and Jay Simon, he was on the history faculty of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, for 44 years. Simon had MA and PhD history degrees from Harvard University. He received the Lincoln Prize Special Achievement Award in 2004 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for his then-24, later 31 volume Grant series. The same year, he also received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement. He died July 8, 2008, in Carbondale, Illinois, at the age of 75.

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The papers of Ulysses S. Grant (1971) (42)
Civil War High Commands (2001) (24)
Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War (1991) (8)
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (1975) (8)
Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge (1990) (4)
Editorial Projects as Derivative Archive (1974) (4)
After Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln's Black Dream (2007) (2)
Commentary at 10th Annual Lincoln Symposium (1984) (2)
Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum (2007) (2)
“I Felt It to Be My Duty to Refuse”: The President and the Slave Trader (2007) (1)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 7: December 9, 1862-March 31, 1863; Volume 8: April 1-July 6, 1863. (1981) (1)
Three Centennial Projects (2013) (1)
The Lincoln forum : rediscovering Abraham Lincoln (2002) (1)
Grant at Belmont (1981) (1)
Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: Then and Now (2007) (1)
1862—A Year of Decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck (2007) (1)
The Lincoln Forum: Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg, and the Civil War (1999) (1)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume I, 1837-1861 (1968) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 3: October 1, 1861-January 7, 1862 (1971) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 4: January 8-March 31, 1862. (1973) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. II, April-Sept., 1861. (1970) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 13: November 16, 1864 - February 20, 1865 (1985) (0)
The Civil War on the Internet (2002) (0)
Paul E. Fuller. Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement@@@The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (1976) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume XXI: November 1, 1870-May 31, 1871 (2002) (0)
The Poet and the President: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman (2007) (0)
Lincoln's Political Religion and Religious Politics (2007) (0)
The Farewell to Lincoln (review) (2013) (0)
Lincoln's Political Faith in the Peoria Address (2007) (0)
A Marriage Tested by War (2007) (0)
Life and letters of General W.H.L. Wallace (2000) (0)
The Second Inaugural Address: The Spoken Words (2007) (0)
In Search of Margaret Johnson Erwin/A Research Note (1983) (0)
The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War (2012) (0)
After Lincoln's Reelection: Foreign Complications (2007) (0)
The Campaign of 1860: Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the Campaign of Words and Images (2007) (0)
Contributors to this Issue (2007) (0)
Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April–June 1864. By William Glenn Robertson. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. 284 pp. $38.50.) (1988) (0)
“I See the President”: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home (2007) (0)
Grant as Military Commander, and: Ulysses S. Grant (review) (2013) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. 23, February 1-December 31, 1872; vol. 24, 1873 (2001) (0)
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant (2007) (0)
Henry Adams on Lincoln (2007) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 5: April 1-August 31, 1862. (1974) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 9: July 7 - December 31, 1863. (1983) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume XVII: January 1-September 30, 1867. (1994) (0)
Lincoln and His Admirals (2007) (0)
Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (review) (2012) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume II: April-September 1861. (1970) (0)
Varieties of Religious Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln (2007) (0)
Lincoln, Douglas, and Popular Sovereignty: The Mormon Dimension (2007) (0)
The Canons of Selection (2003) (0)
Ralph G. Newman, 1911-1998 (1999) (0)
Essays in Southern Biography (review) (2013) (0)
Lincoln's Assassination and John Wilkes Booth's Confederate Connection (2007) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Vols. 7-8. (1980) (0)
The New Editor (2013) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 19: July 1, 1868-October 31, 1869; Volume 20: November 1, 1869-October 31, 1870. (1996) (0)
The Collected Writings of Ulysses S. Grant (2013) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 11: June 1-August 15, 1864; Volume 12: August 16-November 15, 1864. (1984) (0)
Motivating Men: Lincoln, Grant, Macarthur, and Kennedy (2007) (0)
Herndon’s Lincoln: William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik ed. by Douglas L. Wilson, Rodney O. Davis (review) (2015) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 6, September 1 - December 8, 1862. (1977) (0)

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