Dr. Stewart Winger
Associate Professor
History
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 307C
Office Hours
Office. Hours: TTH 2:30-3:30 pm and by appointment, including Zoom. 309-212-9724
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- About
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Biography
Dr. Winger received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1985. After study at the Free University of Berlin, he received his M.A. in 1993 and his Ph.D. in 1998 from Chicago. Before coming to ISU in 2006, he taught at Purdue University Calumet, The American University in Cairo, and Lawrence Technological University.
Current Courses
200.001Historical Conversations: Introduction to Historiography
200.004Historical Conversations: Introduction to Historiography
135.009History Of The United States To 1865
135.010History Of The United States To 1865
301.001Honors Thesis
400.004Independent Study
291.002Undergraduate Teaching Experience In History
Teaching Interests & Areas
Dr. Winger offers courses in Civil War and Reconstruction, American Religious History, U.S. Legal and Constitutional History, Global Fundamentalisms, and U.S. Economic History. He has helped lead a multi-faculty Global Religions course that began in 2019.
Research Interests & Areas
Dr. Winger is currently co-editing a volume on ex parte Milligan, a landmark civil liberties case that arose out of the Civil War and that has recently assumed new importance in controversies surrounding the conduct of the "War on Terror."
He is also writing a book titled The Fostering Care of Government: Abraham Lincoln and Internal Improvements. By reworking Lincoln's legislative record especially, the book seeks to restore Lincoln's economic program to a central position in Lincoln interpretation neglected since Gabor Boritt's Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream.
Ph D
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
MA History of Culture
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
BA Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Member
History and Social Sciences education program
2024
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Member
ISU History-Social Science Education Program
2023
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Member
ISU History-Social Science Education Program
2020
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Member
ISU History-Social Sciences Education Program
2019
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
History-Social Sciences Education Program
2018
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
History-Social Sciences Education Program
2018
College Outstanding Teacher Award
College of Arts and Sciences
2015
Red Tassel Mortar Board Teaching Award
Illinois State University Red Tassel Chapter of Mortar Board.
2015
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
History - Social Sciences Education Program
2014
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
History - Social Sciences Education Program
2014
Book Review
Stewart Winger, "A Commercial Republic Roundtable: Entry 3 from Stewart Winger" Reviewed A Commercial Republic: America’s Enduring Debate Over Democratic Capitalism by Mike O'Connor, Society for U.S. Intellectual History, June 19, 2018.
Winger, S., & Krannawitter, T. Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of our Greatest President. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 31.1 (2010): 51-59.
Winger, S., & Eyal, Y. The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828–1861. The American Historical Review 113 (2008): 834-35.
Book, Edited
Winger, S., & White, J. Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror. University Press of Kansas (2020)
Winger, S. Introduction: Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror. Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror. University Press of Kansas (2020)
Winger, S. The Least Naive Position: The Lincoln Administration and International Law in American Wars on Terror. Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror. University Press of Kansas (2020)
Journal Article
Winger, S., Doorn, E., & O'Sullivan, P. Testing our Standards – Testing our Teaching: Our General Education vs. the A.P. Exams. Progressive Measures 9.2 (2015): 10-16.
Winger, S. High Priests of Nature: The Origins Illinois State Normal ‘University’ in the Antebellum Lyceum. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 101.2 (2008): 127-62.
Winger, S. Lincoln’s Alma Mater: The Lyceum and the Making of a Self-Made Man. Lincoln Lore (2008): 41-48.
Newspaper, Article
Winger, S. Abraham Lincoln supported a wealth tax. Here’s why. The principles behind the American Revolution justifed such a tax. Kathryn Cramer Brownell (EDs). Washington Post (2022)
Other
Winger, S., & Palak, T. The Adventures of Porte Crayon. ISU History Department (2018)
Winger, S. Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley/Lincoln and the Civil War/Lincoln and the Election of 1860. Journal of Southern History 79.4 (2013): 958-961.
Winger, S. “State Power in Civil War Constitutionalism". A review of Mark E. Neely’s Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation in Review of Politics. Review of Politics 75.1 (2013): 123-128.
Winger, S. A New Lincoln Legal History: The First Generation. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 32.2 (2011): 63-83.
Winger, S., & Fraker, G. Prologue to the Presidency: Abraham Lincoln on the Eighth Judicial Circuit as the David Davis Mansion State Historic Site (2011)
Presentations
Did Slavery Cause Racism or Did Racism Cause Slavery.. ISU History Department Faculty Research Seminar. Illinois State University History Department. (2024)
“‘Stopping a Skift in the Middle of a River’: Abraham Lincoln, I&M Canal Scrip, and Monetary Policy in a Nineteenth-Century Economic Crisis,”. Conference on Illinois History. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. (2024)
Declaring the Revolutionary Republic. U.S. Intellectual History Conference 2023. Society for U.S. Intellectual History. (2023)
Lincoln, the Wealth Tax, and American Revolutionary Republicanism. Midwest Civil War Study Group Symposium. Civil War Study Group of the Midwest. (2023)
Presidential Power in Wartime: the Lincoln Administration View. The Constitution in Wartime VMI Constitution Day Discussion. Virginia Military Institute. (2023)
The Problem with Textbooks. 2023 History and Social Science Symposium: Conflict and Harmony: Toward a Global Future. Illinois State University History and Social Science Education Program. (2023)
Of Internal Improvements, Monetary Expansion, Wealth Taxes, and other Tools of Class Warfare in Lincoln's Illinois. Midwestern History Conference 2021. Midwestern History Association. (2021)
Slavery, Race, and Democratic Activism in Antebellum Illinois. 2021 OAH Annual Meeting. Organization of American Historians. (2021)
What I Learned about the Modern World from Teaching Comparative Global Fundamentalisms, or . . . Leonardo on a Notebook. International Studies Seminar. ISU, Office of International Studies and Programs. (2019)
The Role of Government in Lincoln's America: Lincoln's Internal Improvement Politics Reconsidered. 2018 Conference on Illinois History. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. (2018)
Grants & Contracts
College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant -- World Religions. ISU College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2019)
International Seminar Series: Fostering World Religious Literacy. International Studies and Programs. Illinois State University. (2019)
Pressing Questions in Religion. College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2017)
Ex Parte Milligan Conference Funding. David Davis Mansiion Foundatiion. Local. (2015)
NEH Fellowhip. National Endowment for the Humanities. Federal. (2013)