Dr. Stewart Winger
Associate Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 307C
Office Hours
Office. Hours: TTH 11:30 am-12:30 pm and by appointment, including Zoom. 309-212-9724
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
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
HIS 135.001 History Of The United States To 1865
HIS 135.002 History Of The United States To 1865
HIS 299.002 Independent Honor Study
HIS 490.009 Readings -- Field Of Study
HIS 309.003 Selected Topics In United States History
HIS 409.003 Selected Topics In United States History
HIS 291.002 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In History
HIS 200.001 Historical Conversations: Introduction to Historiography
HIS 200.004 Historical Conversations: Introduction to Historiography
HIS 135.009 History Of The United States To 1865
HIS 135.010 History Of The United States To 1865
HIS 301.001 Honors Thesis
HIS 400.004 Independent Study
HIS 291.002 Undergraduate 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
Influential & Inspirational History Faculty Member
History-Social Science Education Program
2013
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
History-Social Sciences Education Program
2011
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
History-Social Sciences Education Program
2011
College Teaching Award
ISU College of Arts and Sciences
2010
Barondess/Lincoln Award
Civil War Roundtable of New York City
2004
Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Award
Abraham Lincoln Association and the Lincoln Institute of the Mid-Atlantic
2001
Grants and Contracts
College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant -- World Religions
Stewart L Winger, Larissa Kennedy, Ryan A Davis
ISU College of Arts and Sciences. July 1 2019 - June 30 2020
International Seminar Series: Fostering World Religious Literacy
Stewart L Winger, Larissa Kennedy, Daniel Breyer
International Studies and Programs. January 1 2019 - May 15 2019
Pressing Questions in Religion
Stewart L. Winger, Daniel Breyer
College of Arts and Sciences. 2017 - 2020
Ex Parte Milligan Conference Funding
Stewart L Winger
David Davis Mansiion Foundatiion. June 2015 - September 2016
NEH Fellowhip
Stewart L Winger
National Endowment for the Humanities. January 01 2013 - December 31 2013
Ex Parte Milligan Conference Fiunding
Stewart L Winger
David Davis Family Trust. - September 2016
Ex Parte Milligan Conference Fiunding
Stewart L Winger, Meghan E Leonard
Fell Trust. - September 2016
Ex Parte Milligan Conference Funding
Stewart L Winger
Abraham Lincoln Association. - September 2016
Book Review
A Commercial Republic roundtable
Stewart L Winger
(2018), Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of our Greatest President
Stewart L Winger & Thomas L Krannawitter
(2010), 31, 51-59, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828–1861
Stewart L Winger & Yonatan Eyal
(2008), 834-35, The American Historical Review 113
Book, Edited
Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror
Stewart L Winger & Jonathan White
(2020), University Press of Kansas
Introduction: Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror
Stewart L Winger
(2020), Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror, University Press of Kansas
The Least Naive Position: The Lincoln Administration and International Law in American Wars on Terror
Stewart L Winger
(2020), Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror, University Press of Kansas
Newspaper, Article
Abraham Lincoln supported a wealth tax. Here’s why. The principles behind the American Revolution justifed such a tax
Stewart L Winger
Washington Post, (May 11, 2022), (2022)
Other
The Adventures of Porte Crayon
Stewart L Winger & Tyler Palak
ISU History Department, (2018)
Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley/Lincoln and the Civil War/Lincoln and the Election of 1860
Stewart L Winger
Journal of Southern History, 79 (4), 958-961, (2013)
“State Power in Civil War Constitutionalism"
Stewart L Winger
Review of Politics, 75 (1), 123-128, (2013)
A New Lincoln Legal History: The First Generation
Stewart L Winger
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 32 (2), 63-83, (2011)
Prologue to the Presidency: Abraham Lincoln on the Eighth Judicial Circuit as the David Davis Mansion State Historic Site
Stewart L Winger & Guy Fraker
(2011)
Phillip Bloomquist’s Statue ‘Lincoln'
Stewart L Winger
Abraham Lincoln Association, 12-13, (2009)
Lincoln and the Founders: Correction, Continuation, or Completion?
Stewart L Winger
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, (2007)
Presentations
Did Slavery Cause Racism or Did Racism Cause Slavery.
Stewart L Winger, Mason McClure
ISU History Department Faculty Research Seminar, Normal, October 4, 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,”
Stewart L Winger
Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, October 3, 2024
Declaring the Revolutionary Republic
Stewart L Winger
U.S. Intellectual History Conference 2023, Denver, CO, November 11, 2023
Presidential Power in Wartime: the Lincoln Administration View
Stewart L Winger
The Constitution in Wartime VMI Constitution Day Discussion, Lexington, VA, September 18, 2023
Lincoln, the Wealth Tax, and American Revolutionary Republicanism
Stewart L Winger
Midwest Civil War Study Group Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, September 16, 2023
The Problem with Textbooks
Stewart L Winger
2023 History and Social Science Symposium: Conflict and Harmony: Toward a Global Future, Bloomington, IL, February 10, 2023
Of Internal Improvements, Monetary Expansion, Wealth Taxes, and other Tools of Class Warfare in Lincoln's Illinois
Stewart L Winger
Midwestern History Conference 2021, Online, May 26, 2021
Slavery, Race, and Democratic Activism in Antebellum Illinois
Stewart L Winger
2021 OAH Annual Meeting, Online, April 17, 2021
What I Learned about the Modern World from Teaching Comparative Global Fundamentalisms, or . . . Leonardo on a Notebook
Stewart L Winger
International Studies Seminar, Normal, Il, April 24, 2019
The Role of Government in Lincoln's America: Lincoln's Internal Improvement Politics Reconsidered
Stewart L Winger
2018 Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, IL, October 5, 2018
"The Fostering Hand of Government: the startling absence of limited government thinking in Lincoln's world
Stewart L Winger
ISU History Department Faculty Research Seminar, Normal, IL, November 17, 2017
Roundtable: Christopher Phillip's The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border
Stewart L Winger
2017 Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting and Conference, Columbus Ohio, April 1, 2017
Conference on Ex parte Milligan
Stewart L Winger, Meghan E Leonard
University Club Discussion Hour, Normal, IL, September 9, 2016
Testing our Standards – Testing our Teaching: Illinois State University’s General Education vs. the Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations
Stewart L Winger
History and Political Science Focus Group, Online, September 26, 2014
The Common Good in Lincoln's Thought
Stewart L Winger
Lutheran Day for the State Legislature, Springfield, May 13, 2014
Testing our Standards- Testing out Teaching: Our General Education vs. the A.P. Exams
Stewart L Winger
The Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology’s 2009 Teaching & Learning Symposium, Online, January 9, 2013
Abraham Lincoln's Confession
Stewart L Winger
Mahomet, IL, November 4, 2012
Lincoln and the 8th Judicial Circuit
Stewart L Winger
David Davis Mansion, Online, April 29, 2011
The Bible and Antislavery
Stewart L Winger
Illinois History Symposium, Online, April 29, 2011
What's in a Name?: Lincoln and Douglas Halls at Eastern Illinois University and Historical Revisionism
Stewart L Winger
OnlineDecember 1, 2010
From Niagara to Gettysburg and Beyond: Tracing the Footprints of a Romantic Religious Poet.
Stewart L Winger
Lincoln Symposium, Freeport Illinois, September 26, 2009
Creating the ‘International Classroom’ and ‘International Seminar’
Stewart L Winger
The Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology’s 2009 Teaching & Learning Symposium, Online, January 7, 2009
A Conversation with Lincoln and Douglas
Stewart L Winger
David Davis Mansion Annual Meeting, Normal Theater, September 24, 2008
House Divided
Stewart L Winger
C-Span Broadcast, Online, August 2, 2008
Is Lincoln Relevant in Classrooms Today?
Stewart L Winger
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Online, July, 2008