William A. Link

William A. Link was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where he attended local public schools. Graduating from Davidson College in 1976, he received his PhD in history from the University of Virginia in 1981. For the next twenty-three years, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; the courses he taught included North Carolina history, the history of the American South, and twentieth-century American history. Between 1995 and 1998, he served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and between 1998 and 2004 as head of the UNCG History Department. In 2004, he moved to the University of Florida to occupy the Richard J. Milbauer chair in history, replacing longtime chair Bertram Wyatt-Brown. He currently teaches courses in southern history at Florida, and supervises or co-supervises seven doctoral students.  Link’s publications include five books about various topics in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth century South.


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Righteous Warrior
Righteous Warrior

William A. Link
St. Martin's Press

In Righteous Warrior, William A. Link provides a magisterial portrait of Senator Jesse Helms, one of the most commanding American politicians of the late...


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