He attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a member of Chi Psi fraternity and played on the University of Wisconsin football team for three years. His family also owned a farm in Lovington, Illinois, and vacation property in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
Ambrose was raised in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitewater High School. His father was a physician who served in the U.S. However, in a review of To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian for The New York Times, high school teacher William Everdell credited the historian with reaching "an important lay audience without endorsing its every prejudice." Early life Īmbrose was born January 10, 1936, in Lovington, Illinois, to Rosepha Trippe Ambrose and Stephen Hedges Ambrose. There have been numerous well documented allegations of plagiarism, inaccuracies, and sloppiness in Ambrose's writings in addition to claims that he has made about his works.
He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history. Stephen Edward Ambrose (Janu– October 13, 2002) was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U.S.
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