Edward G. Lengel

Edward G. Lengel is a historian in residence at Colonial Williamsburg, and previously served as Chief Historian of The White House Historical Association. Before that, Lengel was Editor-in-Chief of The Papers of George Washington and Professor at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Lengel is the author most recently of Never In Finer Company: The Men of the Great War’s Lost Battalion. He is also author of Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918 (2015), To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (2008), and This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War letters (2007).

His book General George Washington: A Military Life was a finalist for the 2006 George Washington Book Prize.

More information is at: http://www.edwardlengel.com.

Articles by this Author

Best Memoirs of the Great War, Summer 2019 | Vol. 64, No. 3

A leading historian of World War I picks the best accounts of the war among the hundreds he's consulted in his research.

Remembering the "Wild West" Division in WWI, Winter 2019 | Vol. 64, No. 1

Agony of the Lost Battalion, Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue | Vol. 63, No. 3

In October 1918, 600 men of the 77th Division attacked a heavily defended German position, charging forward until they were completely surrounded by enemy forces. Only 194 of these men survived.

Discovering the First Washington Monument, Spring 2018 | Vol. 63, No. 1

Built in Dublin in 1778 by a member of the British Parliament who admired George Washington, the vandalized monument stands on an old estate now in ruins.

An Ignoble Profession, Fall 2011 | Vol. 61, No. 2

The business of forging George Washington’s signature and correspondence to sell to unwitting buyers goes back 150 years.

America's Bloodiest Battle, Summer 2010 | Vol. 60, No. 2

American doughboys proved their mettle in the forests and fields of eastern France during World War I.

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