{{Short description|American historian (born 1937)}}
thumb|'''Edward Steers Jr.'''
'''Edward Steers Jr.''' is an American scientist and historian. He is an authority on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and has received awards in both the fields of scientific research and history.<ref name="LOCBIO">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/lincoln/steers-bio.html |title=Edward Steers, Jr. BIOGRAPHY |work=Library of Congress |date=March 16, 2002}}</ref>
==Career== Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Edward Steers gained an early appreciation for science by attending classes as a young boy taught by his father, who headed the Science Department at Moravian College. Steers received his AB degree in Microbiology in 1959 and his PhD in Molecular Biology in 1963 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and joined the staff of the National Institutes of Health (1963–1994). Recruited out of graduate school by Nobel Laureate (Chemistry) Christian B. Anfinsen, Steers learned his research skills working alongside one of the world's leading biochemists.<ref name="ABOUTSTEERS">{{cite web |url=http://edsteers.com/about.html |title=About Ed Steers, |access-date=30 December 2021 |quote=}}</ref> From 1966 to 1986 Steers served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the George Washington University School of Medicine. From 1984 to 1994 he served as the Deputy Scientific Director for Intramural Research in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Diseases and Kidney Diseases.<ref name="ENCBIO">{{cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/steers-edward-jr-1937 |title=Steers, Edward, Jr. 1937-|access-date=4 January 2022 |quote=}}</ref>
After his retirement in 1994, Steers turned his research skills to full-time writing in the field of history.<ref name="LOCBIO"/> He has published numerous articles and more than 26 books, including titles on topics as diverse as WWII and Abraham Lincoln. Steers is also fascinated by dissecting fraudulent claims appearing in popular history, publishing books such as ''Hoax, Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated With Our Greatest President,'' and ''Getting Right with Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions about our Greatest President.''<ref name="STEERSITE">{{cite web |url=https://www.edsteers.com |title=Edward Steers, Jr.|access-date=30 December 2021 |quote=}}</ref>
Edward Steers is recognized as a leading authority on Abraham Lincoln and his assassination.<ref name="LOCBIO"/> He has authored or edited more than a dozen books on Lincoln's life and death, including ''Lincoln, The Quotable Lincoln, Blood on the Moon, The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators, His Name is Still Mudd, The Trial, The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence, Lincoln Legends,'' and ''The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia.''<ref name="STEERSITE"/> His book ''Blood on the Moon'' alleges that the Confederate Secret Service was intimately involved with John Wilkes Booth ultimately leading to the assassination of President Lincoln. His book ''His Name Is Still Mudd'' presents the case for Dr. Samuel Mudd's complicity with John Wilkes Booth's plot to capture President Lincoln ultimately leading to his assassination.
Among his honors, Steers was elected to American Men and Women of Science, and as a Fellow in the Company of Military Historians. He served as Review Editor for the Lincoln Herald, and he is an Associate Editor of ''North & South'' magazine.<ref name="LOCBIO"/> Steers was appointed to the West Virginia Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (appointed by Governor Joe Manchin) and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Advisory Board (appointed by Senator Richard Durbin). For his historical writing Steers was awarded the Lincoln Group of New York's "Award of Achievement", the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia's "Man of the Year Award",<ref name="AUTHPG">{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Edward-Steers/e/B001JSB8DA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share |title=Edward Steers |access-date=4 January 2022 |quote=}}</ref> and The Lincoln Forum's "Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement".<ref name="AWARD">{{cite web |url=https://www.thelincolnforum.org/richard-nelson-current-award|title= The Richard Nelson Current Award |access-date=4 January 2022 |quote=}}</ref>
==Books== {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?168016-1/blood-moon ''Booknotes'' interview with Steers on ''Blood on the Moon'', February 17, 2002], C-SPAN| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?169291-4/blood-moon Presentation by Steers on ''Blood on the Moon'', March 16, 2002], C-SPAN| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?190117-6/trial-assassination-president-lincoln Presentation by Steers on ''The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln'', November 17, 2005], C-SPAN| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?293342-1/lincoln-assassination-encyclopedia Presentation by Steers on ''The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia'', April 24, 2010], C-SPAN}}
Steers is the author of a number of books, including:
* {{cite book |title=Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2001 |isbn=0813122171}} * {{cite book |title=Der Tagebuch: The Journal |publisher=Independently published. |year=2020 |isbn=9781719935203}} * {{cite book |title=Don't You Know There's a War On?: Life on the Home Front during World War II |publisher=Sign of the Ox |year=2007 |isbn=9781577471288}} * {{cite book |title=The Escape and Capture of John Wilkes Booth |publisher=Thomas Publications |year=1992 |isbn=0939631490}} * {{cite book |title=Essays in History |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2015 |isbn=9781508461449}} * {{cite book |title=Forgotten History: Lost to Time, Interesting Events in History |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2016 |isbn=9781537687704}} * {{cite book |title=From Port Hudson to Cedar Creek: The Civil War Letters of Charles Washington Kennedy |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2014 |isbn=9781505708073}} * {{cite book|title=Getting Right With Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions About Our Greatest President|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=2021|isbn=9780813180908}} * {{cite book |title=His Name is Still Mudd: The Case against Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd |publisher=Thomas Publications |year=1997 |isbn=1577470192}} * ''Hoax. Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and other Famous Frauds.'' University Press of Kentucky. 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-8131-4159-6}}. * {{cite book |title=I'll Be Seeing You: Love and Intrigue in the Midst of War |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2015 |isbn=9781511551069}} * {{cite book |title=The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia |publisher=Harper Perennial |year=2010 |isbn=9780061787751}} * {{cite book |title=The Lincoln Assassination. The Evidence |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780252033681}} * {{cite book |title=Lincoln: A Pictorial History. |publisher=Thomas Publications |year=1993 |isbn=9780939631667}} * {{cite book |title=Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President. |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2007 |isbn=9780813124667}} * {{cite book |title=Lincoln Slept Here: Lincoln Family Sites in America, The Early Ancestors 1637-1808. |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2016 |isbn=9781523237944}} * {{cite book |title=Lincoln Slept Here: Lincoln Family Sites in America, Illinois Years 1830-1861. |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2016 |isbn=9781718710504}} * {{cite book |title=Lincoln Slept Here: Lincoln Family Sites in America, the Kentucky Years 1809-1816, Indiana Years 1816-1830. |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2017 |isbn=9781544037493}} * {{cite book |title=The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2003|isbn=0813122775}} * {{cite book |title=Lincoln's Assassination |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |year=2014|isbn=9780809333493}} * {{cite book |title=The "Quotable" Lincoln: A Selection From the Writings of Abraham Lincoln |publisher=Independently published |year=2019|isbn=1073562654}} * {{cite book |title=Rationing During WWII |publisher=Independently published |year=2021|isbn=9798512883761}} * {{cite book |title=The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft |editor=Edward Steers, Jr. and Harold Holzer |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |year=2009 |ISBN=978-0-8071-3396-5}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{official website|http://edsteers.com}} * {{C-SPAN|52479}}
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