31 Facts About Stephen Ambrose

Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U S Presidents Dwight D Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

Stephen Ambrose was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history.

Stephen Ambrose's father was a physician who served in the U S Navy during World War II.

Stephen Ambrose was raised in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitewater High School.

Stephen Ambrose's family owned a farm in Lovington, Illinois, and vacation property in Marinette County, Wisconsin.

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Stephen Ambrose attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a member of Chi Psi fraternity and played on the University of Wisconsin football team for three years.

Stephen Ambrose was a history professor from 1960 until his retirement in 1995.

Stephen Ambrose held visiting posts at Rutgers University, the University of California, Berkeley, and a number of European schools, including University College Dublin, where he taught as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History.

Stephen Ambrose founded the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans in 1989 serving as its director until 1994.

Early in his career, Stephen Ambrose was mentored by World War II historian Forrest Pogue.

In 1964, Stephen Ambrose took a position at Johns Hopkins as the Associate Editor of the Eisenhower Papers, a project aimed at organizing, cataloging and publishing Eisenhower's principal papers.

Stephen Ambrose expanded this into a book, Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe .

Stephen Ambrose was aided in the book's writing by comments and notes provided by Eisenhower, who read a draft of the book.

In 1964, Ambrose was commissioned to write the official biography of the former president and five-star general Dwight D Eisenhower.

Stephen Ambrose wrote The Victors, a distillation of material from other books detailing Eisenhower's wartime experiences and connections to the common soldier, and The Wild Blue, that looks at World War II aviation largely through the experiences of George McGovern, who commanded a B-24 crew that flew numerous missions over Germany.

Stephen Ambrose served as a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History,.

Stephen Ambrose served as the historical consultant for the movie Saving Private Ryan.

Stephen Ambrose served as executive producer for Price for Peace, a documentary concerning the war in the Pacific theater during World War II, and for Moments of Truth, a TV documentary containing interviews with World War II veterans.

Stephen Ambrose appeared as a guest on numerous TV programs or stations, including The Charlie Rose Show, C-Span programming, CNN programming, NBC's Today Show, CNBC's Hardball, and various programming on The History Channel and the National Geographic Channel.

In 1997, Stephen Ambrose received the St Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates.

In 2000, Stephen Ambrose received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the highest honorary award the Department of Defense offers to civilians.

Stephen Ambrose won an Emmy as one of the producers for the mini-series Band of Brothers.

Stephen Ambrose received the George Marshall Award, the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, the Bob Hope Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, and the Will Rogers Memorial Award.

Stephen Ambrose married his first wife, Judith Dorlester, in 1957, and they had two children, Stephenie and Barry.

Stephen Ambrose married his second wife, Moira Buckley, in 1967 and adopted her three children, Andrew, Grace, and Hugh.

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Stephen Ambrose's health deteriorated rapidly, and seven months after the diagnosis he died, at the age of 66.

In 2002, Stephen Ambrose was accused of plagiarizing several passages in his book The Wild Blue.

Stephen Ambrose had footnoted sources, but had not enclosed in quotation marks numerous passages from Childers's book.

Stephen Ambrose asserted that only a few sentences in all his numerous books were the work of other authors.

Rives has stated that interview dates Stephen Ambrose cites in his 1970 book, The Supreme Commander, cannot be reconciled with Eisenhower's personal schedule, but Rives discovered, upon further investigation, a "hidden" relationship between the two men.

Stephen Ambrose wrote a review and book supporting the former general, with Eisenhower providing direction and comments during the process.