1201 Main St, Batavia, IL 60510, United States
Philip Burnham graduated from Batavia High School in 1970.
700 College St, Beloit, WI 53511, United States
Burnham holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Composition from Beloit College.
Amherst, MA 01003, United States
Burnham holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1979)
Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
Burnham holds a Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies from the University of New Mexico (1987).
700 College St, Beloit, WI 53511, United States
Burnham holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Composition from Beloit College.
Amherst, MA 01003, United States
Burnham holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1979)
Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
Burnham holds a Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies from the University of New Mexico (1987).
1201 Main St, Batavia, IL 60510, United States
Philip Burnham graduated from Batavia High School in 1970.
(Historian Philip Burnham traces the complex and still cha...)
Historian Philip Burnham traces the complex and still changing relationship between Native Americans and the national parks from the earliest years of the National Park Service to the latest Congressional initiatives. He recounts how Indians were first removed from their traditional lands.
https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Country-Gods-Americans-National/dp/155963667X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Indian+Country%2C+God%27s+Country%3A+Native+Americans+and+the+National+Parks+Philip+Burnham&qid=1592398127&sr=8-1
2000
("So Far from Dixie" is the gripping narrative history of ...)
"So Far from Dixie" is the gripping narrative history of five men who were sent to Elmira and survived to document their stories. Berry Benson promised that he would escape the prison under honorable circumstances. Anthony Kelley charmed Union authorities into giving him a job at Elmira and later became mayor of Richmond, Virginia. John King refused to build coffins for his fellow prisoners. Marcus Toney disdained to take the Union oath of loyalty until long after the war had ended. And Frank Wilkenson, a Union army volunteer only fifteen years old, endured the same humiliating punishments meted out to the prisoners he was guarding.
https://www.amazon.com/So-Far-Dixie-Confederates-Prisons-ebook/dp/B00DDMYQSE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=So+Far+From+Dixie%3A+Confederates+in+Yankee+Prisons+Philip+Burnham&qid=1592398193&sr=8-1
2003
(The resistance of great Native American warriors to the U...)
The resistance of great Native American warriors to the United States government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroically, yet their stories are mostly unknown. This long-overdue biography of Dewey Beard, a Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, chronicles a remarkable life that can be traced through major historical events from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. Beard was not only a witness to two major events involving the Lakota; he also traveled with William “Buffalo Bill” Cody's Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as an advocate for his family and his people. With a keen eye for detail and a true storyteller’s talent, Philip Burnham presents the man behind the legend of Dewey Beard and shows how the life of the last survivor of Little Bighorn provides a glimpse into the survival of indigenous America.
https://www.amazon.com/Song-Dewey-Beard-Survivor-Bighorn/dp/0803269366/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Song+of+Dewey+Beard%3A+Last+Survivor+of+the+Little+Bighorn+Philip+Burnham&qid=1592398257&sr=8-1
2014
educator historian journalist author
Philip Burnham was born on December 6, 1951, in Elgin, Illinois, United States, to Joseph and Ruth Drover Burnham. Burnham's family moved to Batavia in 1955 when he was 3 years old. He grew up in Batavia, along with 3 brothers and one sister. His father served for several years as the President of Marshall Field's until suffering a fatal heart attack at the age of 57. His mother and two siblings still live in the Fox Valley.
Philip Burnham graduated from Batavia High School in 1970.
Burnham holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Composition from Beloit College (1974), a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1979), and a Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies from the University of New Mexico (1987).
Philip Burnham taught for several years on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota; he was a correspondent for Indian Country Today. He has lived and worked in London, Paris, and Dakar, Senegal. Philip has published in American Heritage, The Washington Post, MHQ, Transition, Emerge, The Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications.
In 2005 Burnham was awarded a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to research the story of Indian-owned lands taken by the government for military purposes during World War II which were never returned. In 2007 the Fund awarded him another grant to investigate the relationship between Colonial Williamsburg and the local African-American community.
Burnham is the author of "How the Other Half Lived: A People's Guide to American Historic Sites" (1995), a critical look at the public history of American minority groups; "Indian Country, God's Country: Native Americans and the National Parks" (2000), an exposé of how America's public lands were wrested from North American tribes; "So Far From Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons" (2003), a narrative account of Civil War confinement; and "Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn" (2014), the biography of a Lakota man who rode with "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show; fought at both the Little Bighorn battle and Wounded Knee massacre; acted in Hollywood films, and later advocated for the return of land and payment of reparations to the Lakota people.
Burnham taught college-level writing, literature, and history at the University of New Mexico, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Sinte Gleska University, Johns Hopkins University, and, as a Fulbright fellow, at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He has done archival research in public and private collections throughout the United States and in various other countries. In 2019 he retired as an Associate Professor of composition at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Burnham is currently working on a biography of an American Indian boarding school student who went on to become a teacher, lawyer, politician, and tribal advocate.
Philip Burnham is widely known as a free-lance journalist and historian. He has published numerous books and articles for presses and publications across the United States. The author's 2014 book "Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn" won a Spur Award for best western biography from Western Writers of America.
(Historian Philip Burnham traces the complex and still cha...)
2000(The resistance of great Native American warriors to the U...)
2014("So Far from Dixie" is the gripping narrative history of ...)
2003Philip Burnham is a member of the Authors Guild, American Historical Association, and Washington Independent Writers.
