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Philip Burnham is a free-lance
journalist/historian based on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Burnham
has published in American Heritage, The Washington
Post, MHQ, Transition, Emerge, The
Columbia Journalism Review, and is a regular contributor to
Indian Country Today.
Burnham is the author of How the Other Half Lived: A People's
Guide to American Historic Sites (1995), an investigation
of 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; and So Far From Dixie: Confederates in
Yankee Prisons (2003), a narrative account of Civil War confinement.
His work focuses on American culture, Native American history, and
the role of minorities in American life today.
Burnham is currently working
on a book about the role of economic and political sovereignty in
Native communities of North America. He is also researching a biography
of Dewey Beard (Iron Hail), a Lakota warrior who was the last survivor
of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Burnham has taught college-level
writing, literature, and history at the University of New Mexico,
the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Sinte Gleska College,
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 U.S. and in several
countries abroad. He is currently an Assistant Professor at George
Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Burnham holds an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst
and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico.
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