Brooks D. Simpson
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Brooks D. Simpson, an American historian, was born August 4, 1957, in Freeport, New York. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated in 1975 [1]; four years later he graduated from the University of Virginia [2]. Receiving an MA in history at the University of Wisconsin in 1982, he earned his Ph.D. in 1989 [3].
After working three years as an assistant editor for The Papers of Andrew Johnson, based at the University of Tennessee, Simpson joined the faculty at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1987. Three years later, in 1990, he migrated west to Arizona State University, where he presently teaches.
Simpson is the author of five books, the coauthor of another, and the editor or coeditor of six other books. He is perhaps best known for his work on Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1885, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2000, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for that year[4]. He has appeared several times on C-SPAN, speaking on Henry Adams [5] and Grant [6], as well as on PBS's The American Experience [7].
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