Background
Whittenburg was born in 1946 to Mr. and Mistress James Edgar Whittenburg, Junior. in Rome, Georgia.
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Jim Whittenburg
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in history from Wake Forest University (with a thesis entitled "The Black and White of Reconstruction in East Tennessee"), and his Doctor of Philosophy (1974) in history from the University of Georgia, where he wrote his thesis on the War of the Regulation.
Career
He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee, his Master of Arts He taught at the University of Missouri before moving to the William & Mary in 1977. He served one term (2005–2008) as the chairman of the Lyon G. Tyler Department of History, following Doctor James McCord and succeeded by Doctor Philip Daileader. Whittenburg was awarded the University Chair for Teaching Excellence from 1999-2002.
Other awards include: the William and Mary Society of the Alumni Teaching Award, the Thomas Ashley Graves Junior.
Award for Sustained Excellence in College Teaching, and the Freshman Advisor of the Year award. Whittenburg also taught actress Kim Basinger.
Whittenburg is married to Doctor Carolyn Sparks Whittenburg, the director of the National Institute of American History and Democracy (NIAHD). They were wed on December 27, 1970.
Doctor Carolyn Whittenburg also received her Master of Arts from Wake Forest University in 1971, with a thesis entitled "James Dunwoody Brownson Debow: The Defender of New Orleans Propserity".
She received her Editor.S. (1997) and Editor.D. (2003) from the College of William & Mary. The collegiate NIAHD program has seen over 175 students since its creation in 2002. There is also a pre-collegiate NIAHD program which runs two summer sessions and enrolls rising high school juniors and seniors in one of the NIAHD courses at the College.
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