Don Higginbotham | |
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 Don Higginbotham in March 2007 | |
| Born | May 22, 1931 |
| Died | June 22, 2008 (aged 77) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Genre | History |
Don Higginbotham (May 22, 1931 – June 22, 2008) was an American historian and Dowd Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading scholar of George Washington, he was a pioneering practitioner of the “new” military history and an expert on colonial and revolutionary America and the early national United States. He served twice (1975–76 and 1998–99) as visiting professor of history at the United States Military Academy.