{"id":63,"date":"2020-05-06T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahcms.smca.ucf.edu\/history-draft\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:49:23","slug":"leckie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/history\/faculty-staff\/emeriti\/leckie\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley A. Leckie, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<h4>Books<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson&#8217;s Civil War Memoir. Edited with Bruce J. Dinges Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West Edited and with an introduction by Shirley A. Leckie and Nancy J. Parezo.<\/li>\n<li>Shirley A. Leckie and William H. Leckie The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Angie Debo, Pioneering Historian, Oklahoma Western Biographies, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>The Colonel&#8217;s Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.<\/li>\n<li>Coauthor, with William H. Leckie. Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Chapters in Books<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Biography Matters: Why Historians Need Well-Crafted Biographies More Than Ever.&#8221; Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft. Ed. Lloyd E. Ambrosius. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Articles in Edited Works<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;General George Armstrong Custer,&#8221; in Generals and Chiefs, Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2004.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Not Your Usual Fairy Tale Love Story: The Romance of Armstrong and Elizabeth Custer,&#8221; in Custer and His Times: Book IV, N. P. Little Bighorn Associates Inc. 2002, 139-166.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer,&#8221; in Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 178-198.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Articles<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Why Biographies Matter in the Classroom.&#8221; History Teacher 20 (January 2006).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Gender as a Force in History.&#8221; North Dakota History 64, 1997, 30-41.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Custers Luck Runs Out.&#8221; Montana The Magazine of History 43, 1993, 30-41.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Reading Between the Lines: Another Look at Officers&#8217; Wives in the Post-Civil War Frontier Army.&#8221; Military History of the Southwest 19, 1989, 137-160.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Origins of the Toledo Metropark System.&#8221; The Northwest Ohio Quarterly 59, 1987, 3-15.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Toledo in 1890: A Time of &#8216;Great Expectations&#8217;.&#8221; Northwest Ohio Quarterly 57, 1985, 119-131.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Toledo, Ohio: A Case Study in the Process and Problems of Nineteenth-Century Urbanization.&#8221; The Old Northwest 10, 1984, 319-337.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Building the City Efficient: The Work of Toledos First Plan Commission,&#8221; Part I: &#8220;Establishing the Commission.&#8221; Northwest Ohio Quarterly 55, 1983, 113-125. Part II: &#8220;Instituting Zoning,&#8221; Northwest Ohio Quarterly 56, 1984, 21-33.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Brand Whitlock and the City Beautiful Movement in Toledo, Ohio.&#8221; Ohio History 50, 1982, 5-36.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sylvanus P. Jermain and the Establishment of Parks in Toledo, Ohio.&#8221; Northwest Ohio Quarterly 50, 1981, 103-116 and 51, 1982, 117-135.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A History Book Club Selection for Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth<\/li>\n<li>1993 Evans Biography Award<\/li>\n<li>1993 Julian J. Rothman Prize<\/li>\n<li>Best book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2001<\/li>\n<li>The Angie Debo Biennial Prize for the outstanding book published by the University of Oklahoma Press on the American Southwest in 2000 and 2001<\/li>\n<li>The Colonel&#8217;s Lady was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selected Publications Books A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson&#8217;s Civil War Memoir. Edited with Bruce J. Dinges Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West Edited and with an introduction by Shirley A. Leckie and Nancy J. Parezo. Shirley A. Leckie and William H. 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