Dr. Stewart Winger
Associate Professor
History
Office
Schroeder Hall - SCH 307c
Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday 10:00 -11:00 and by appointment, 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
135.005History Of The United States To 1865
135.006History Of The United States To 1865
309.001Selected Topics In United States History
200.001Doing History: An Introduction
200.004Doing History: An Introduction
412.001Seminar: Topics In 19th Century United States 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
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
Influential & Inspirational History Faculty Member
History-Social Science Education Program
2013
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
History-Social Sciences Education Program
2011
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), Chapter Six: Lincoln and the Wealth Tax in Revolutionary Republicanism: Lincoln, Internal Improvements and the Democratization of American Capitalism. Washington Post (2022)
Presentations
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)
Roundtable: Christopher Phillip's The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border. 2017 Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting and Conference. Ohio Academy of History. (2017)
"The Fostering Hand of Government: the startling absence of limited government thinking in Lincoln's world. ISU History Department Faculty Research Seminar. ISU History Department. (2017)
Conference on Ex parte Milligan. University Club Discussion Hour. University Club. (2016)
Testing our Standards – Testing our Teaching: Illinois State University’s General Education vs. the Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations. History and Political Science Focus Group. McGraw Hill Eduction. (2014)
The Common Good in Lincoln's Thought. Lutheran Day for the State Legislature. Lutheran Social Services of Illinois. (2014)
Testing our Standards- Testing out Teaching: Our General Education vs. the A.P. Exams. The Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology’s 2009 Teaching & Learning Symposium. The Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. (2013)
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)