Gabor Boritt
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![BUDAPEST TO GETTYSBURG, is a riveting tale of love, hate, war and freedom – a journey from terror to hope. The past and present collide as a world-renowned historian confronts a history he has refused to study: his own. Gabor Boritt is an expert on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. Fifty years after fleeing a continent ravaged by the terror of Hitler and Stalin, Gabor reluctantly returns to his native Budapest. Urged by his son Jake, he faces the harsh history of his Jewish-Hungarian childhood: the Nazi invasion, the Holocaust, Allied bombing raids, Soviet tyranny, the 1956 Revolution and his escape to America. From the streets of Budapest to the fields of Gettysburg, Gabor discovers the intimate and epic history that transformed him into a great scholar of Lincoln, the Civil War and American democracy.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTMxNjA0MTM0N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjE3MTIwMw@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
Gabor S. Boritt is a Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies,
director of the Civil War Institute; Chairman of the Board of Trustees
of the Lincoln Prize, the $100,000 annual award for the finest work on
the Civil War, and co-chairman, with David Brion Davis of Yale
University, of the Advisory Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute. He
received his B.A. at Yankton College, S.D., his M.A. at the University
of South Dakota, and his Ph.D. from Boston University. He has received
an honorary doctorate and was selected as a distinguished alumnus of
both Yankton and Boston. He was born in Hungary in 1940 and settled in
the Dakotas in 1958. Before coming to Gettysburg College in 1981, he
taught at six American universities and was selected three times as an
outstanding teacher by students, faculty, and alumni. He has lectured
for the U.S. Army in Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand; has given a
number of named lectures; and has lectured at the National Geographic
Society, the Smithsonian, the Jimmy Carter Library, the Morgan Library,
the Newberry Library, the Nobel Institute in Oslo, and, among others,
at the Universities of Budapest, Cambridge, London, and Sorbonne I. His
scholarly work as been recognized through awards and fellowships from
his home institutions as well as from the American Council of Learned
Societies, the American Philosophical Society (twice), the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, Harvard University, the Huntington Library
and Art Gallery, the Lehrman Institute, that National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Newberry Library, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council
(thrice), the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, and the Social Science
Research Council.