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Dennis K. Boman received his bachelor’s degree in classical studies from Wichita State University in 1988. While an undergraduate, he served in the Air Force Reserves as a firefighter at McConnell Air Force Base. In 1991, he began his graduate studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he received a master’s degree in classical languages in 1992 and another in history in 1995. Focusing upon American history, Boman received his Ph.D. in 1998 and later published his dissertation, Abiel Leonard: Yankee Slaveholder, Eminent Jurist, and Passionate Unionist.
Over the years, Dr. Boman has taught a variety of survey courses including American history, western civilization, world history, political science, Latin and ancient Greek, and geography. He has also taught upper level undergraduate courses in comparative studies of ancient and modern slavery, African American history, and seminars on Lincoln, the American Civil War, and early Missouri history. Moreover, in 2003 he served as an assistant editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a documentary editing project collecting and publishing Lincoln documents, both those written by and to our sixteenth president.
Dr. Boman’s scholarship has covered a wide range of topics and interests. In legal history, he has written on impeachment proceedings against Missouri circuit court judge David Todd (the paternal uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln), on slave law, and the Dred Scott case in Missouri. In Civil War history, he has edited excerpts from a Union soldier’s diary and published articles about other important incidents in Missouri. Boman’s book, Lincoln’s Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri’s Civil War Governor, won the Eagleton-Waters Award “for the outstanding book on the political history of Missouri in 2006-2007.” In 2011 his book, Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri, will be published. He recently finished The Original Rush Limbaugh, a biography of the radio talk show host’s grandfather. Dr. Boman resides in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife Jillon Vander Wal, a professor of psychology at Saint Louis University.
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