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威廉·E. 哈代是历史系助理教授和林肯学者，保罗五世. 澳门威尼斯人赌城汉密尔顿艺术、人文和社会科学学院. 他得了B.A. 和M.A. 他在路易斯维尔大学获得了历史学博士学位.D. 诺克斯维尔田纳西大学的19世纪美国历史系. 哈代专门研究政治, 宪法, 以及19世纪美国文化史和田纳西州历史. His teaching and research interests include the life and times of Abraham Lincoln; the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras; nineteenth-century American sports; and military, 南部, and Tennessee History; He has recently completed a history of Civil War era baseball in Tennessee and is currently at work on a study of Tennessee's Reconstruction Era and a destructive fire that destroyed Knoxville, 二十世纪之交田纳西州的商业区.